July 24, 2025 • 41 mins
C&R are shocked by Hulk Hogan's death & Rich is offended by a co-worker! The guys take calls about other icons who affected their industries as much as the Hulkster propped up wrestling. Plus, Freddie F'in Freeman & 'OLD-SCHOOL WHEN 50 HITS' is inspired by Ozzy!
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Speaker 1 (00:19):
Wow, what a wild day?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Huh did you train? Say your prayers and eat your vitamins.
You know, I've been doing that since the eighties, Since
around eighty five, I'd say, Hulk Mania, brother, what you're
gonna do?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
So?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Why so many memories connected to the Halkster rest in peace.
At seventy one, died of cardiac arrest at his home
in Clearwater, Florida. Just a sad, sad day for all
of our childhoods, said week When do you think about Malcolm.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Jamal Warner, Ozzie Olsbourne, Hulk, Colgan.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Chunk MANGI own but we rock out on their behalf
Covino and Rich on Fox Sports Radio eight seven, seven
ninety nine on Fox It's Thursday. Thursday's the new Friday,
So the weekend begins now. And because it's Thursday, we
do it every Thursday. Old school when fifty hits. When
(01:19):
fifty hits in life, sometimes get a little old school,
even though fifty is the new forty. Yeah, without a doubt,
we looked it up just for fun. Carol O'Connor Archie
Bunker when he was doing All in the Family was
about fifty years old.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
My goodness, he felt eighty.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yeah he felt eighty five back then, and today's fifty.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Not the same. But when fifty hits in life, it's
old school. I look forward to it.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
When fifty hits on the clock, we throw it back
and we do old school. When fifty hits, we reminisce
here on the show. We'll talk Tyreek Hill, we'll talk
big artists, small Venue. Rich has a story, and there's
a sports related story that involves the Rays.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
But we gotta talk about the Hulkster. What you're gonna do?
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Brother?
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Like, what a shot?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Just when we started to process the Ozzy Osbourne passing,
You're like, what hull holl gang this is? This is
a huge one, by the way, Isaac Lowenkron, good to see.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
You, my friends. Hey, buddy, condolence his brother.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Brother.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
What you're gonna do, Danny g.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Isaac, was there a Dunce on this network that questioned
you leading with Hulk Hogan.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
I have no comment, but like I'm at the podcast.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I mean, what an ass clown, Doug Gottliebez for saying
that you shouldn't lead with Hulk Cogan. Wow, what are
we gonna lead with Green Bay College basketball? Hulk Hogan
is an icon. We're talking about riches, hul Cogan child.
He yeah, he said some questionable stuff. People's impression of
the Hulkster changed. But if you were a kid of
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the eighties, if you were a kid of the nineties,
Hull Cogan legend, a guy that meant so much to
so many people, sort of question you.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Leading with him.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I heard someone say that I'm like, my goodness, that
guy's lost.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
In the sauce.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Well you could hear it on the podcast. Italian low
on Kron said, but if you're around my age, Rich's
age Low and Kron, if you're just a wrestling fan
in you're twelve, come on, you have to recognize and
put differences aside and just acknowledge the impact he had
(03:30):
on a multi billion dollar industry. I mean, I mean,
it's not a lot of things as big as wrestling
is today. There's not many things that we've seen grow
from the beginning where it is now like wrestling, and
it wouldn't be what it is without whole Klgan, There's
no question about it.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
I was saying, did you just sit by when he
said that? Or did you did you just let Doug
say that?
Speaker 6 (03:53):
I mean, yeah, I did sit by, But later in
the show, you know, Doug was like, oh, let him
say dumb crap like that, and it's a show.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
It's not my shows. He can, you know, I guess, so.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
He's got his own opinion on Hulk Hogan. And I
just said later that I think that pro wrestlers are
our athletes.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
As do a lot of people. Sam and I actually
I did acknowledge that on our Patreon. Covino and Richie
do a Patreon before our Fox Sports show, and it's
a little more wrong, a little more uncensored, And you
can't tell the whole Hogan story without really bringing that up.
So the way I handled it was and everyone's going
(04:28):
to handle things differently, of course, passing of a legend
and an icon, not trying to judge anybody, but the
way I did it was. I'm sure a lot of
people have mixed emotions about it because you can't take
away the things that he said, and it's unfortunate, but
it's also a major piece of a lot of people's
childhoods and you don't want to dump on that either,
(04:50):
And you can't take away from the impact he's still had,
regardless of how you feel about him, in a gigantic
industry which is wrestling, sports and entertainment, multi billion dollar
into So yeah, I think it's fair to say. I
understand if you have mixed emotions about it, of course,
but you can't take away the impact.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I mean, look at it this way.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
There may be there may not be a person that
meant more to the industry that they were in than
hul Cogan meant to rest. Honestly, I think of one
that's Babe Ruth, and he is the Babe Ruth of wrestling.
That is maybe the only analogy what Kaitlin Clark is
doing for the WNBA.
Speaker 7 (05:28):
Right maybe what Magic Johnson and Larry Bird did for
the NBA.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
There's far and a few examples of people that put
the league, the organization, the company on their back and
carried it the way Kaitlyn Clark right now, My goodness
or lower Beck must heard from carrying all those other
women because they care about her. Hull Cogan was the
headliner before the Rock, Before Roman Reigns and Stone Cold
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and all the Cody Rhoades, there was hul Cogan because
before that it was just like foreign dudeses grappling everybody
be like, let's get a Polish guy, I even put
and he'll grapple another hairy, middle aged guy, Brunos and
Martino like that was what wrestling was.
Speaker 8 (06:05):
Before Hulk Hogan. Wrestling was also regional and local, but
it was not national. It was always hey on on
Channel five or Channel thirteen or whatever the regional station
you've got wrestling every Saturday afternoon, or at the local dive,
tiny arena you have wrestling. It was a regional, local thing,
and Hulk made it national.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yeah, and let's remember two how we all felt when
we saw this wrestling superstar in Rocky three as Thunderlips.
That's when you knew, like, wow, this is really getting
big time.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Or in the holes barred two kies.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
But when it started crossing over into that mainstream and
that MTV culture and the Cyndi Lauper stuff in and
the mister t and the celebrities. That's when you really started,
even as a kid, noticing like, wait, this weird little
thing that I'm seeing here every once in a while
Saturday mornings. It's really blowing up and it's becoming a thing.
And I remember, I think we all, if you're around
that age, remember going to your parents and asking is
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wrestling real? And I think they were a little confused
as well. They didn't know how to answer that because
it was all still so new and fresh and you
and this is all in part because of the success
of hul Holgan. It all wrote on him, it really did,
so like him or not, you can't take that away.
And you also don't want to lean into that when
someone just passed away. You know what's separating the separating
(07:28):
the art and what they meant from personal mistakes. Listen,
we also listen to Michael Jackson music. Right, You all
still watch movies and listen to music of artists, and
you watch teams where athletes have beat women and done
horrific things.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I don't say this, I mean it's touchy. It really is.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
It's touchy. But you also don't want to mess with
people's childhoods. Right, because people are gonna get near and dear.
See how defensive rich Cott just now? I mean, because
you're talking about someone you idolized as a child, your childhood.
You're not saying I love the man and who he
was and what he represented and the things he said.
(08:06):
You love what he meant to you back then as
a kid, and you can't take away what he did
for the industry. So when people want to lean into
the negative, it's gonna turn some people off. But also
when you ignore the negative, it's gonna turn some people off.
It's a touchy situation. And I'm choosing to say, Wow,
(08:29):
what an impact he had on something we all loved
at one point in our lives. We took it. It's
like video games. We all loved him growing up, and
either you continued on that path or you moved on
from it. I sort of moved on from it, but
I still like have a near and dear soft spot
to it in my heart. But some people still lived
and loved that wrestling life. It's bigger than ever, bigger
(08:52):
than that you or I may not watch Raw and
smack Down every week, but when you were a kid,
my childhood in the late eighties nineties be defined by baseball, cards, football,
and wrestling. Until I discovered boobs, until I discovered women,
my life was a trifecta of the Mets, the forty
(09:13):
nine ers, and wrestling. And I think, I think insert
your teams and Nintendo. You your you know fab four,
your Core four as a child, when you think about it,
took you off track. You know, you took your key
Hernandez poster down for my Cidney Crawford.
Speaker 8 (09:30):
Yeah, and perhaps Miss Elizabeth helped me contribute to that
from a wrestling name.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I remember when the Mega Powers exploded over you know
who can be in the luster. You know, you connect
so hard to these memories and they mean so much.
I mean, we wouldn't have them if it wasn't for
the Haulkster and him body slamming. You were watching a giant,
but you would call your friends over. Your memories are
so closely connected to this because you would have your
friends over, or you'd go to your friend's house for
(09:56):
the pay per view. You know, you'd have a night
with your buddy, maybe a sleepover. These were the best
times in your life. So you don't want to hear
anyone dumping on those moments, you know what. You were
watching the Hulkster slam Andre the Giant the same year
you were collecting the wood Border nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Tops Baseball cards. Those were the primo days of.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Drop Steve Cavino in let's say nineteen eighty seven, and
you were a little schoolboy and you had your binder
full of wood Border eighty seven Tops cards seven. I
was wearing EyeBlack like Don Matnick. You were doing your
had a mullet like Dan Gladen. It was a big
year for the Twins. I was watching wrestling and I
was collecting, like you said, Yeah, those wood Border Tops
(10:39):
Baseball cards nineteen eighty seven, for short, I was a
primo time for a lot of us.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
If you're around that forty to forty.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Between forty and fifty years old, hold on, if you're
talking eighties mulleto eighty six eighty seven. Are you gonna
go Guyetti or you're gonna go Phil McConkie. You were
and you are in a New Jersey Guy Wow. As
far as mullet, I don't know my dad Big Steel.
I've Cavino had a pretty legendary mullet. Now based on
the loss of Hulk Holgan and some of the things
you may have heard here on Fox Sports Radio throughout
(11:08):
the day seventy one years old just adds to a
really wild week where again your childhoods.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Have taken a bit of a hit.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Is there another person as impactful to the industry as
he was to wrestling?
Speaker 1 (11:21):
We mentioned a few.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
I'll even throw Ozzy Osbourne in there because it's fresh
on the mind. But metal and rock, not just metal,
because metal is an acquired thing. Not everyone's into heavy metal,
I get that right, But rock as a genre would
not be what it is without Ozzy Osbourne. So you
could say, yeah, him to medal, Hulgan to wrestling, the
(11:44):
Babe to baseball, Like certain people, it wouldn't be what
it is today without them. What else comes to mind
and impactful deaths, because I think this is one of them,
and again for some people it's different. For some people
it might be a little bit of a conflicting sort
of feeling because they don't forget what he said.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
But I would.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I would say the death of Hulk Hogan is one
of the bigger ones over the last handful of years.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
They're gonna laugh.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
We just happened to have the Prince of Darkness and
Hulkamania both die in the same week, and the reality
is funny, I should say reality. They were both larger
than life guys, so much so that in their later
years they both had reality shows where they followed around
their families. We were fascinated with Ozzy Osbourne. We were
fascinated with Hulk Hoganan to get us to get a
(12:33):
look inside the household of the Hulkster or Ozzy Osbourne
and Sharon that was story real quick. We used to
tease Rich that, you know, he was in on the
family like Riches. Rich always had a great greater bond
than I did with the Halkster. Not because the Halkster
liked Rich more that was one of Rich's heroes. I
(12:55):
just always I always admired watch and watch wrestling like
anybody else. Rich of hul Colgan, Hulk Hogan, Joe Montana
and alf Right and Gary Gary car That's richest childhood.
Speaker 7 (13:08):
Right there, Gary Coleman, so him too.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
You know, the Halkster embraced us, Bud, he embraced Rich,
especially because he meant a lot to Rich in his childhood.
There was one point, can I say it. Yeah, I
went to the Hogan's house for lunch. And when I
was at the Holkster's house, I remember seeing a closet
and when I tell you a row of yellow tank tops,
how you would imagine it?
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Like that?
Speaker 1 (13:35):
So cool red boots, just a straight up like.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Yeah, this is the guest bedroom and you just saw
a closet was a yellow Wait a minute, the one
in bel Air the Bluffs, Florida, the one when they
were doing the reality show in.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Florida, Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
And that was a gorgeous house too.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
So and the other fun fact, I don't know if
it's gonna say this, but I'm gonna play behind the
velvet row. They were trying to write in a love
story for Brook and it was, you know, bending the
truth a little bit because Cleoney Brook was younger and
she had a crush on Rich because they would stop
by as a family on our show, and they wanted
to write Rich into the show as Brook's like older
(14:13):
love crush. It was it was, it was a thought
and I was like, yeah, I can't do that. Well,
Rich was in a relationship, but they were like, yeah,
are you open to this? And Rich couldn't look past
her and not Seell Holgan's face, you know what I mean.
But you know what, they were always kind to us.
And I know people have mixed emotions about the Hulkster,
but I mean he was an icon. Yeah, but much
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like you said that the names of far and phebuteam
what Magic and Larry Bird did to start another controversial
when you mentioned him already though, But would pop music
be what it was without Michael Jackson the king of pop? Right,
He's a guy that brought everybody together because he was
undeniably great.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
If you were a.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Rock fan, a disco fan, a gay fan, whatever fan,
you know, Yeah, Michael Jackson's pretty awesome. This is pop music.
He's the king of pop.
Speaker 7 (15:07):
He survived what R. Kelly couldn't. Because radio stations are
not playing R. Kelly music any longer. This is so
damn but they're playing Michael Jackson's so it's just better.
Michael Jackson's media better than it's timeless. And obviously, since
he was a kid, he was a huge star. But
the other one that comes to mind really quick Covino.
I would have never watched golf in my adult life
(15:27):
had it not been for Tiger Woods.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
That's great.
Speaker 7 (15:29):
I mean, that's he's had a lot of controversy in
his life obviously.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Oh dude, Michael Jackson, Tiger, the all country is you
have to you don't have to love everything about the
man to acknowledge the impact that they had, right, I
think that's fair to say so.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. Wow.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
A little bit of a touchy subject, but again, that's
how impactful the Hulkster was.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
What are your thoughts?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Is there anyone else's impactful and any other deaths that
hit you as hard? There's a commonality, There's one I
have rich that comes to mind, and you may think
I'm joking, but I'm not. But there's a commonality there
because Paul Rubins aka pe Wee Herman was one for me.
And I know that sounds funny, but so much of
my humor and so many of my quotes and references
(16:17):
and childhood fun with Pewe's Playhouse, and so much fun
I had with my friends watching Peewe's Big Adventure, got
the chance to meet him a few times. He and
his comedy meant so much to me that when he
passed I felt terrible about it. And the commonality is
that we grew up in a time where these characters,
(16:38):
these artists, these entertainers leaned into the gimmicks so hard
that that's who they were. Paul Rubins was Pee Wee Herman,
Terry Malaya was hul Colgan, and we bought into it
and loved every second of it. And that's honestly one
of the benefits we have of being eighties kids and
growing up in that time. I wouldn't change it for anything.
But when he died, I felt like a part of
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my childhood died a little bit. And that's how a
lot of people feel today. I wasn't like a mega
fan of this guy, but I remember really being bum
when Chris Farley died. I don't know why, because I
just felt like he had so much to give. Some
just hit you hard, diet different than others. Were not
a mega fan or though I mean like you were
a fan. I was a fan, but it wasn't like
man Farley is my favorite.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
I don't remember having a long time ago, but it
was right ninety seven, you know what it was.
Speaker 9 (17:22):
I was.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I was in the heart of like my high school
immature like Sandler Farley, David Spath and I just remember
being like that. It was in the pocket of that nineties,
late nineties comedy. So when we lost Farley, I was like, oh,
it's funny you say that, you say Farley, And of
course everyone was saddened by that, right, But I remember,
because I've been doing a show with Rich for twenty years.
(17:44):
I remember Rich being oddly upset. And again, it's going
to be different for everybody, universal for some. But when
Norm MacDonald died, it personally affected. You remember, really really
exceptionally personally sad about it. I was, and I am
a huge Norm McDonald fan. I feel like his comedy
is timing his whole awkward presentation.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
We all have our personal favorites. It's amazing. You know.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I don't want to put it out there. I won't
even name the people, but there's a few people that
are alive that I know I will be sad when
they're gone. I won't put the old Jamboozi, you know,
hex on them, but you know there's a few out
there that are getting up there in age, and you
will be rather upset, whether they're musicians or some of
your favorite athletes. In fact, Danny, we were just talking
(18:27):
about it around the time of the All Star Game,
We've lost so many baseball legends that guys like Mike
Schmidt eighties players are now some of the oldest legends.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
There's very few guys, like who is the oldest guy?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
We thought of Lefty Gomez, Like, oh no, no, Sandy
Kofex too, But we're talking about all the guys you
would think of the Hammer and Hanks and the Willie
Mays and that whole Tom Seaver.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
That generation of Gonaders.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Are the Schmidts and the Molitors and the Manningies, and
then the Bogs and those elders, the eighties guys you
grew up with. There's the Unks, the Ogs, and then
the elders. They're the elder statesman him. I'm so not bad,
by the way, not Lefty. But there were only a
couple of pitchers, right Rich. Yeah, I mean on that list,
we were looking up what Hall of famers are still alive,
(19:18):
and when I tell you, there was a couple, and
then it jumped right to our favorite stars of the
eighties and stuff, and I'm like, really.
Speaker 7 (19:24):
Yeah, Lefty died in like ninety I think, well, it's
a long time, but I know, but a lot of
the Sluggers though we were talking about Gone.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Yeah, it's listen, it's sad.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
It's a sad day for kids of the eighties and
nineties especially, So your thoughts will take your feedback. Next,
Rest in Peace, hul Cogan, Ozzy Osbourne like a wild
week and we'll get to all your feedback.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Next. Fox Sports Radio with your buds Cavino en Rich.
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he was a real American hulk Hogan. I was doing
some push ups and all that, right, because the Hawks
told you to.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Did you take your vitamins? Did you say your prayers? Yes?
Speaker 2 (21:11):
I said, I did all this my demandments. Well let's
remember too as we I still have my Hullcuggan workout
set from eighty five. I'm not surprised. I'm not surprised
he still uses ten pound weights, hand grips, the ten
pound weights. Are you surprised that it's not like you
got those pythons?
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Now?
Speaker 2 (21:31):
He's the real American in a time where the wwe
really leaned into those stereotypes, right, I mean in a
crazy way looking back, but we have to as a
culture remember it was just a different time.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
That's just how it was. And he was the shining.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Light and a time where you hated the Iron Cheek
in a fun way, right, in a fun way. But
he was the guy he didn't have to hear the
Iron Cheek did have cool boots, though, remember he didn't
have the curl and the point on the end, and
he humbled.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
The Holster even had the best ice cream bar on
the planet.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Oh yeah, I remember that for sure.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
How chalky and terrible were those WWS ice cream bars?
And on a throwback Thursday, let's not forget the cartoon, right,
the wrestling cartoon exactly. And he had his CDs. Remember
he was always jamming out and playing guitar, and he
was a nice dude. We've interviewed him many times and
we had a lot of moments with him. You know
(22:25):
what we did, Danny g As we reminisce a little
bit too. We would have him call up people we
had problems with. Like you hear how Rich is clearly
like agitated by Gottlieve today, right, because you're talking about
Rich's childhood hero and a lot of our childhood here.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
And we get it.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Hogan said questionable dumb things, but no one's perfect. And
I look at him as my childhood hero, not a
man that made mistakes.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
It's it's mixed emotions. I get that, right. Whatever.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
But let's say, let's say we wanted to really give
Doug a piece of our mind in a playful way,
we would have the Hulkster call up people on our
behalf like, listen to me, brother, you got the problem
my main man, Rich Davis.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
This is a true story, true story.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
There was a girl I was talking to and her
ex boyfriend was lingering, was threatening Rich and he was
threatening me like you go near her, I'll kill you.
And I'm like, yo, yo, you're her ex. Get out
of here. And I told Hulk this story on the air,
and he goes, what's his name?
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Brother?
Speaker 1 (23:18):
He called this.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Guy and left him a voicemail. Remember his name and
everything too. His name was Spencer Spence, slip me tell
you something, Spencer.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
I called Spencer too. This is great.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
It was so funny.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
So the Hulk stary was like so much fun to
have a larger than life hero, like almost a cartoon
character in your studio and in your presence.
Speaker 9 (23:42):
Man.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
He was that guy, man, and he's a guy who
took a lot of pride in saying I remember he
could be anywhere in the world and people would recognize
him because that red and yellow and the mustache to
handle more mustache was so synonymous. The Headman was so
synonymous with wrestling, he put it on the map. So
most of emotions is fun fact it was him, Muhammad
(24:03):
Ali and Mickey Mouse at one point with figures in
the world. You could be in a hut in the
middle of a jungle, is what he said, and they
would know who Hulk Hogan was and based on that.
Is it fair to have mixed emotions?
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Is it fair to say, hey, it's a huge part
of your childhood, so back off. Yes, But is there
anyone as impactful to their industry as him? There's a
few examples if you want to name some mothers by
all means due and then other just impactful deaths. Because
when a guy like that passes away, is a big
part of your childhood passes away, Well, that's that's what's
(24:39):
going to hit you later on. It will listen to this.
I know I don't want to be a prisoner of
the moment, but I really think I was Sam Your girl,
Caitlin Clark is the most recent example of someone that
is doing more for their industry sport or company than
anyone else.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
I have a question.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Wnba was on Life supp and Kaitlyn Clark is going
to get these women huge raises. They fly differently now
there's the tendance records, they have network deals. Kaitlyn Clark
is the babe, Ruth is the whole, Cogan is the
magic and Larry Bird of today. I would say, who
would you say is that for the UFC, because that's
(25:20):
another industry we saw sort of from the ground well, yeah,
from the ground up to where it is now? Is
there one person that stands out like yo, there wouldn't
be a UFC if it wasn't for that.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
I don't think there's one guy. Yeah, I can't.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
I guess there's different divisions. No one's undefeated, that's not
like a thing.
Speaker 7 (25:36):
So there's not you know, Mike Tyson love for boxing.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Mag Tager Ali, right, I would say Muhammad Ali, but
Mike Tyson for a different generation. Absolutely, But Hulk Hogan
was and is that guy. And you see not only
to our childhoods, but did you see Rick Flair today?
He couldn't keep it together. I mean it's so sad.
So people are speaking out and who would have thought
he'd go before Rick Flair, Right. It's so sad to
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see your heroes and childhood heroes go down.
Speaker 9 (26:05):
Now.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
If you're watching on the live stream on the Fox
Sports Radio YouTube page, I don't know if it's accessible spot,
but you can look it up on your own if
you go to at Rich Davis or at Covine On Rich,
I posted a video this is about gotta be ten
fifteen years old Hull Cogan. We did a step by
step instructional. He taught me how to rip my t
shirt off. It's weird that you still do that at
(26:26):
the beach though, and in the bedroom. Yeah, you know, yeah, hey,
you know what, poor Sarah. Sometimes my WiFi sometimes my
wife will ask for do the hulkster. I'm like, you
drop the big lie and then and then at the end,
I do the whole Like I put my hand to
my ear. Just when you think Rich isn't ready for
round two, he hulks up and and he brings it again.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
What you're gonna do, Sarah?
Speaker 5 (26:47):
That match was not scheduled for one fall, No.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
No, no, no, you know what, Rich, because we got
to get through the phone calls and of course Tyreek
kill and old school in fifty hits. I can tell
you straight up, we're gonna talk about the top Hull
Call moments on over promised our bonus podcast that's an
hour and a half from now on Fox Sports Radios YouTube.
Will save it for there. We'll play the videos and stuff. Yeah, yes,
it's more of a video thing. So we'll do the
top Hulk Hogan moments on over promised our bonus show
(27:14):
later today, so join us live. That's at four pm
on the West, seven pm on the East Fox Sports
Radios YouTube page. And you know, there's a related pay
per views story in the news, so we'll talk about
pay per views because again, these are the best times
of our childhood.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
No doubt. In fact, that's what Hun and La hit
us up.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
But he's listening on the iHeart app and he said, Yo,
whatever people's feelings on Hogan are put that aside because
he was such a part of our childhood. If you're
thirty something to fifty something, you grew up with Hulk Hogan. Yeah, undeniable,
undeniable brother. Absolutely and as uh, I love the the
(27:52):
more eclips. I'm sorry you are not the brother. Yeah,
contrary to yeah twenty three to me proved by the way, now,
like did he change your lives? He changed the culture
of wrestling because all those dudes spoke like him with
the brother and brother and brother, they all did Brother,
Let's let's go rapid Fire and they'll go to Isaac
for an update.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Danny g who we got man?
Speaker 7 (28:13):
Let's start with Evan in Los Angeles?
Speaker 1 (28:15):
What's up? Evan?
Speaker 4 (28:16):
Hey Covino and Rich longtime listener. I love you guys.
You man, I'm like you Rich. I grew up with Hulk.
It is just like my dad love the Hulk. Like
I got the same brother from my dad. Like he
was like, hey, brother, you know this is what you're
gonna do. You know? It was just he taught me,
like and then I didn't even know who Hulk was
and they showed me Rocky and he's like, that's the Hulk.
(28:37):
And then after that he showed me all the whole videos.
He found stuff from swap meets to watch like Hulk
and Andrea the Giant Wrestle, and he was like, that's
because I was the Sonko Steve Austin Van.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Does anyone remember going to like Blockbuster or Hollywood Home
Hollywood Video and they'd have those Colisseum home videos, like
those random wrestling tapes with your buddy Sam Uh. Speaking
of Thunderlips and Sylvester st. Stallone, did post I had
the pleasure of meeting this brilliant personality in Showmill. He
was just twenty six years old. Leave Thunderlips Rocky three,
(29:10):
he was only twenty six. He was absolutely wonderful. Amazing
skill made Rocky three incredibly special. My heart breaks that
I think he's gone, you know. Coincidentally, today is the
anniversary of I have the Tiger hitting number one on
the charts. Get out of here the anniversary. All right,
let's go to who Denny, Richard and Tacoma.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
What's up Richard?
Speaker 4 (29:33):
Hey guys, I love you guys.
Speaker 9 (29:35):
Man, y'all get me while I y'all get me through while.
Speaker 10 (29:38):
I'm doing that every day.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Thanks man, y'all cracked me up every day. Thank you,
thank you.
Speaker 9 (29:45):
Oh So in the South, I'm from Alabama, but I
moved up here twenty years ago.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
In the South, we always say a group of three.
You know what I'm saying that.
Speaker 10 (29:54):
When people thought passing away.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
And one of my other heroes is for you from
the top of me show he just passed away.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
No doubt.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
He was the first of the three, and we acknowledged
it about that on Tuesday, and of course Ozzy and
then the Hulkster and on a side note, and it's
a shame, it's a footnote. But jazz legend Chuck man
Gione also passed away today at the age of eighty four,
and he's most famous for having an instrumental song that
everybody knew. It was like an elevator song that everybody knew.
(30:23):
It was such a hit when we were kids. I
came out in seventy seven. Feels so good, and ironically
we feel so bad talking about well, you know, let's
let's keep the phone calls coming.
Speaker 7 (30:33):
Who who got Danny j Let's go to Tony in Oregon.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Let's up ton Hey, Tony Hey.
Speaker 11 (30:38):
Thanks for taking the call.
Speaker 9 (30:39):
Guys.
Speaker 11 (30:39):
Yeah, fifty one years old. You know that's right my
wheelhouse early or late eighties, early nineties. Wwffmn. This was
freaking awesome, dude. There were so many good guys. You asked, like,
you know, who who passed away? A famous person that's
kind of that stuck with you. Is the first person
that came to my mind, and I kept thinking I
was like, no, I mean, it's it's not even its
(31:00):
someone I really liked. I actually hated a guy. You know,
he's my nemesis, but I respected the hell and that
was Kobe Bryant. I'm a Blazer fan, and that go
I ripped my heart out several times, but I like, dude,
like that really affected me when he died.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Ye know, on a personal note, but also a very
public note. We all remember where we were when that happened.
Everyone has their story, and that's a great example because
I wouldn't consider myself a Lakers fan by any means,
but we were all Kobe fans and respected the Mama mentality,
what he stood for and the girl, that stuff that
he was all about, and what he was doing with
(31:33):
his kids. We were headed to the super Bowl and
we remember seeing time stop at the airport when the
news broke and everything went in slow motion because you
saw everyone looking at their phone and we're like, what's
going on?
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Something happened? A stranger's crying.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
I thought I was thinking about a TSA agent break
character and start tearing up like some hard looking TSA
guy was like, he said, you know, it was a.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
True and I'm like I think so yes, I started to.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Everybody stopped at the airport like it was. It was
a really wild experience.
Speaker 7 (32:07):
The girl who checked me in at the hotel there
for super Bowl week, she was blubbering. She couldn't control
her emotions and it was weird. It like took the
wind out of the sales for the entire week.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Hugely impactful because it was so sudden and so tragic
and on the personal note, like I said, which was
public rich and I had to do a live TV
show for ESPN that night and the whole from the
like the fan fest of the Super Bowl, and it
was the most somber broadcast live because we had to
(32:39):
do like Kobe coverage.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
It was Kobe coverage.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Mean while there's like marching bands at the super Bowl
behind us and behind us. It was like, that was
the most awkward thing I've ever done. Dany, Let's say
one more for now, then we'll go to Isaac for
an update. What's up Blake in Illinois?
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Yeah, what's up, Blake?
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Hey?
Speaker 12 (32:56):
What's going on?
Speaker 10 (32:57):
Pellis you were taking my call? I I grew up
in the early two thousands. I was born in ninety six,
so I was a big movie guy and one person
that really struck.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
My course that passed away with Robin.
Speaker 10 (33:09):
Williams, not only for his comic stand up but his movies.
I feel like they were iconic. You can't well especially
how he died. That just really sucked the wind out
of me.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Robin Williams is definitely on most people's list of celebrity
deaths that sort of hit him. If you were a
big rock fan of the nineties, you have to say
Kurt Cobain too, because of how much he impacted music
for that decade and that generation. There's so many examples
of that in the world of entertainment. Unfortunately, and again
(33:39):
it's gonna be different for everybody. But when you think
about again how big Hulk Hogan was to wrestling, it's
understandable why so many people are upset today.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Yeah, let's go to Isaac Glow and Crown for an update.
Speaker 8 (33:52):
I lo what up man and indeed fellas That is
our top story, the passion of pro wrestling icon Hulk
Hogan dead at the age of seventy one after suffering
cardiac arrest at his home in Clearwater, Florida.
Speaker 5 (34:04):
Here was one of the many, many, many.
Speaker 8 (34:06):
Highlights from the Hulkster's epic career, This one of victory
over macho man Randy Savage in nineteen ninety with Vince
McMahon and Jesse the Body Ventura on the call.
Speaker 13 (34:20):
Carying the energy from all of us, honky maniacs all right,
pretending a Roger Holst.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Booster classic.
Speaker 13 (34:40):
Still who little reason to me.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
And I'm sure the uh mean Jean and the Fink
welcomed him to heaven.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
Oh boy, that is so true? Is it is?
Speaker 1 (34:56):
I've forgotten about the filo. I said this name.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
I said this on a our podcast Cavino and Rich
on Patreon. Very similar to like Ali and Cosell, the
relationship they had.
Speaker 5 (35:07):
A great analogy.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Yeah, scene, every quote, anytime you're quoting the Haulkster, you're
always throwing a mean gene. Let me tell you something.
You're a very Cosell Ali. Right.
Speaker 8 (35:18):
That's a great point, because I think what makes it
so memorable and nostalgic was the perfect storm, the confluence,
as we said, taking it from a local and regional
sport to a national sport. There was mean gene. There
was the advent of cable television. There was the Friday
night main event on NBC, and it all came together
at that time to make him so iconic.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
And the NFL New York.
Speaker 8 (35:40):
Jets quarterback Justin Fields dislocated a toe on his right
foot in practice today, but Fields is expected to be
ready for the regular season output or against the Steelers.
One Major League baseball game in the books, the Baltimore
Ools one in Cleveland four to three, just by two
home runs by Stephen Kwan Back. We go to Steve
Cavino and a man who turned down an offered to
be Hulk Hogan's son in law, Rich Dags're.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Sorry, truth, thank you, thank you, Isaac. Listen, we're gonna
get to some NFL this is a really interesting Tyreek
kill story. We're gonna get to. We'll talk a little
quarterback if you're watching that on Netflix, and we'll go
old school next. Right here, Covino and Rich on Fox
Sports Radio. YO, the Eye of the Tiger, absolutely anniversary
(36:24):
of this song.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Huh, Well, we.
Speaker 9 (36:27):
Know that.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Rocky had the Eye of the Tiger, but so the Thunderlips. YO.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Live from the Fox Sports Radio studios, Cavino and Rich
and it's time for our ti Iraq Play of the Day.
We're gonna get to your phone call. So Hank Ty
eight seven seven ninety nine five, can.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
You do that?
Speaker 5 (36:43):
Why do some squad thrust?
Speaker 11 (36:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Yeah, yeah, you do your one hour pushups? Okay, perfect.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
But right after our show ended yesterday, we all gathered
around the monitors watching Freddie fin Freeman, the.
Speaker 5 (36:56):
Writer deals Freddie what.
Speaker 9 (36:58):
Field it is?
Speaker 7 (37:00):
Not?
Speaker 8 (37:00):
Talk by Beader that scores hold tiny behind him Ben
the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Walk it off.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
I love when the Randy Newman kicks in. That's courtesy
of five seventy AM Dodgers Audio Network, and you know,
be honest, great win. I think Harrison Bader should have
caught the ball, just saying yeah, but nonetheless a win.
I'll take a win on an error no matter what
the day is. But hey, that's a big win for
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got to do old school and fifty hits. But we
had two quick phone calls. As we remember the late
great Hulk the Hulkster, and as we said, it's the
anniversary of Ia the Tiger hitting number one on the charts. Coincidentally,
(37:54):
do you know the fun fact about Ia the Tiger
being the theme for Rocky three? If we're all fans
of Rocky three, remember Karate Kid? Of course You're the
Best around. That was supposed to be the theme for
Rocky three. When you listen to the lyrics, it lines
up with Rocky Well, he says.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
History repeats itself.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
They're talking about repeating itself in the boxing, but at
the last minute they go it's a little too soft,
and they went with Survivor I the Tiger, and then
they shop that song to Karate Kid.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
We'll get that fun facts, all right, two quickies, ol
go old school? What do we got?
Speaker 11 (38:26):
All right?
Speaker 7 (38:27):
John and Nevada?
Speaker 1 (38:27):
What's up Johnny?
Speaker 9 (38:29):
Hey, guys, what's going on?
Speaker 1 (38:30):
What's up in Hey?
Speaker 9 (38:32):
I don't want to say exactly where I live, but
Steve Austin is my neighbor, and he told me that
Terry did more behind the scenes to help people out
that he could have fort no.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
Well, remember, not only did he put the industry on
his back. All the guys that came up with him,
they were only making money when they were on his
cards and when he were wrestling him. Like he put
a lot of money in their pockets because he was
the guy making most.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Of the money. But they weren't making money unless he
was part of it. All right, one more quickie, who
we got all right? Before we go?
Speaker 7 (39:10):
Old school Tom and Iowa hy Tom?
Speaker 3 (39:13):
Yeah out here?
Speaker 1 (39:14):
What up?
Speaker 3 (39:15):
Yeah? I'll tell you what. When I was twelve years old,
I seen Hody Race wrestle a bear at the at
the high school arena down here, and I'm like that
set me up for Bulldog Bob Brown and all the
rest of the other blond was but Hardy Race. Yeah,
he wrestled a bear and then the bear beat him
and chugged to pepsi and like, wow, that was I'll.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Be honest, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Did you want to just smoke too much weed and
dreamt that King Harley Race fought a bear. By the way,
I wasn't a bear. That was George the Animal Steel.
You go okay, sorry, Yeah, he was just a hairy guy. Well,
look at the clock. We go Old School every Thursday.
Let's go there's a surge. Yeah, what we gonna go
back back.
Speaker 12 (39:57):
Into town throwing it back Thursday. Old School won fifty
hits at fifty after CNR give you the time capsule
topic and we reminisce together.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
All right, So let's set this up. We get you involved.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
Fox Sports Radio Nation eight seven, seven ninety nine out
Fox with the passing of Ozzy Osbourne, metal icon, Prince
of Darkness, the creator of the metal sound. When you
think of Rich your favorite album Pile Driver growing up, right, Well,
we saw a meme and the meme said it's a
five hour drive and you can only listen to one artist.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
Who's that artist? Ah, that's a good question. And you
know what, it's interesting enough.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
I went through the Black Sabbath Ozzie catalog the other
day and I knew way more Ozzy than I thought
I had known. Right, So, what is the artist that
you could listen to for five hours straight? And you know,
if you want to add a little fun in this,
what's the artist that you would dread listening to five
hours straight? So your favorite and worst will take your feedback.
(40:58):
Next do it live of Covino, Rich, Fox Sports Radio,
hang type
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Speaker 1 (00:19):
Wow, what a wild day?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Huh did you train? Say your prayers and eat your vitamins.
You know, I've been doing that since the eighties, Since
around eighty five, I'd say, Hulk Mania, brother, what you're
gonna do?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
So?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Why so many memories connected to the Halkster rest in peace.
At seventy one, died of cardiac arrest at his home
in Clearwater, Florida. Just a sad, sad day for all
of our childhoods, said week When do you think about Malcolm.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Jamal Warner, Ozzie Olsbourne, Hulk, Colgan.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Chunk MANGI own but we rock out on their behalf
Covino and Rich on Fox Sports Radio eight seven, seven
ninety nine on Fox It's Thursday. Thursday's the new Friday,
So the weekend begins now. And because it's Thursday, we
do it every Thursday. Old school when fifty hits. When
(01:19):
fifty hits in life, sometimes get a little old school,
even though fifty is the new forty. Yeah, without a doubt,
we looked it up just for fun. Carol O'Connor Archie
Bunker when he was doing All in the Family was
about fifty years old.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
My goodness, he felt eighty.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yeah he felt eighty five back then, and today's fifty.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Not the same. But when fifty hits in life, it's
old school. I look forward to it.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
When fifty hits on the clock, we throw it back
and we do old school. When fifty hits, we reminisce
here on the show. We'll talk Tyreek Hill, we'll talk
big artists, small Venue. Rich has a story, and there's
a sports related story that involves the Rays.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
But we gotta talk about the Hulkster. What you're gonna do?
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Brother?
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Like, what a shot?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Just when we started to process the Ozzy Osbourne passing,
You're like, what hull holl gang this is? This is
a huge one, by the way, Isaac Lowenkron, good to see.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
You, my friends. Hey, buddy, condolence his brother.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Brother.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
What you're gonna do, Danny g.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Isaac, was there a Dunce on this network that questioned
you leading with Hulk Hogan.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
I have no comment, but like I'm at the podcast.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I mean, what an ass clown, Doug Gottliebez for saying
that you shouldn't lead with Hulk Cogan. Wow, what are
we gonna lead with Green Bay College basketball? Hulk Hogan
is an icon. We're talking about riches, hul Cogan child.
He yeah, he said some questionable stuff. People's impression of
the Hulkster changed. But if you were a kid of
(02:57):
the eighties, if you were a kid of the nineties,
Hull Cogan legend, a guy that meant so much to
so many people, sort of question you.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Leading with him.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I heard someone say that I'm like, my goodness, that
guy's lost.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
In the sauce.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Well you could hear it on the podcast. Italian low
on Kron said, but if you're around my age, Rich's
age Low and Kron, if you're just a wrestling fan
in you're twelve, come on, you have to recognize and
put differences aside and just acknowledge the impact he had
(03:30):
on a multi billion dollar industry. I mean, I mean,
it's not a lot of things as big as wrestling
is today. There's not many things that we've seen grow
from the beginning where it is now like wrestling, and
it wouldn't be what it is without whole Klgan, There's
no question about it.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
I was saying, did you just sit by when he
said that? Or did you did you just let Doug
say that?
Speaker 6 (03:53):
I mean, yeah, I did sit by, But later in
the show, you know, Doug was like, oh, let him
say dumb crap like that, and it's a show.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
It's not my shows. He can, you know, I guess, so.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
He's got his own opinion on Hulk Hogan. And I
just said later that I think that pro wrestlers are
our athletes.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
As do a lot of people. Sam and I actually
I did acknowledge that on our Patreon. Covino and Richie
do a Patreon before our Fox Sports show, and it's
a little more wrong, a little more uncensored, And you
can't tell the whole Hogan story without really bringing that up.
So the way I handled it was and everyone's going
(04:28):
to handle things differently, of course, passing of a legend
and an icon, not trying to judge anybody, but the
way I did it was. I'm sure a lot of
people have mixed emotions about it because you can't take
away the things that he said, and it's unfortunate, but
it's also a major piece of a lot of people's
childhoods and you don't want to dump on that either,
(04:50):
And you can't take away from the impact he's still had,
regardless of how you feel about him, in a gigantic
industry which is wrestling, sports and entertainment, multi billion dollar
into So yeah, I think it's fair to say. I
understand if you have mixed emotions about it, of course,
but you can't take away the impact.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I mean, look at it this way.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
There may be there may not be a person that
meant more to the industry that they were in than
hul Cogan meant to rest. Honestly, I think of one
that's Babe Ruth, and he is the Babe Ruth of wrestling.
That is maybe the only analogy what Kaitlin Clark is
doing for the WNBA.
Speaker 7 (05:28):
Right maybe what Magic Johnson and Larry Bird did for
the NBA.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
There's far and a few examples of people that put
the league, the organization, the company on their back and
carried it the way Kaitlyn Clark right now, My goodness
or lower Beck must heard from carrying all those other
women because they care about her. Hull Cogan was the
headliner before the Rock, Before Roman Reigns and Stone Cold
(05:52):
and all the Cody Rhoades, there was hul Cogan because
before that it was just like foreign dudeses grappling everybody
be like, let's get a Polish guy, I even put
and he'll grapple another hairy, middle aged guy, Brunos and
Martino like that was what wrestling was.
Speaker 8 (06:05):
Before Hulk Hogan. Wrestling was also regional and local, but
it was not national. It was always hey on on
Channel five or Channel thirteen or whatever the regional station
you've got wrestling every Saturday afternoon, or at the local dive,
tiny arena you have wrestling. It was a regional, local thing,
and Hulk made it national.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yeah, and let's remember two how we all felt when
we saw this wrestling superstar in Rocky three as Thunderlips.
That's when you knew, like, wow, this is really getting
big time.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Or in the holes barred two kies.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
But when it started crossing over into that mainstream and
that MTV culture and the Cyndi Lauper stuff in and
the mister t and the celebrities. That's when you really started,
even as a kid, noticing like, wait, this weird little
thing that I'm seeing here every once in a while
Saturday mornings. It's really blowing up and it's becoming a thing.
And I remember, I think we all, if you're around
that age, remember going to your parents and asking is
(07:04):
wrestling real? And I think they were a little confused
as well. They didn't know how to answer that because
it was all still so new and fresh and you
and this is all in part because of the success
of hul Holgan. It all wrote on him, it really did,
so like him or not, you can't take that away.
And you also don't want to lean into that when
someone just passed away. You know what's separating the separating
(07:28):
the art and what they meant from personal mistakes. Listen,
we also listen to Michael Jackson music. Right, You all
still watch movies and listen to music of artists, and
you watch teams where athletes have beat women and done
horrific things.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I don't say this, I mean it's touchy. It really is.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
It's touchy. But you also don't want to mess with
people's childhoods. Right, because people are gonna get near and dear.
See how defensive rich Cott just now? I mean, because
you're talking about someone you idolized as a child, your childhood.
You're not saying I love the man and who he
was and what he represented and the things he said.
(08:06):
You love what he meant to you back then as
a kid, and you can't take away what he did
for the industry. So when people want to lean into
the negative, it's gonna turn some people off. But also
when you ignore the negative, it's gonna turn some people off.
It's a touchy situation. And I'm choosing to say, Wow,
(08:29):
what an impact he had on something we all loved
at one point in our lives. We took it. It's
like video games. We all loved him growing up, and
either you continued on that path or you moved on
from it. I sort of moved on from it, but
I still like have a near and dear soft spot
to it in my heart. But some people still lived
and loved that wrestling life. It's bigger than ever, bigger
(08:52):
than that you or I may not watch Raw and
smack Down every week, but when you were a kid,
my childhood in the late eighties nineties be defined by baseball, cards, football,
and wrestling. Until I discovered boobs, until I discovered women,
my life was a trifecta of the Mets, the forty
(09:13):
nine ers, and wrestling. And I think, I think insert
your teams and Nintendo. You your you know fab four,
your Core four as a child, when you think about it,
took you off track. You know, you took your key
Hernandez poster down for my Cidney Crawford.
Speaker 8 (09:30):
Yeah, and perhaps Miss Elizabeth helped me contribute to that
from a wrestling name.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I remember when the Mega Powers exploded over you know
who can be in the luster. You know, you connect
so hard to these memories and they mean so much.
I mean, we wouldn't have them if it wasn't for
the Haulkster and him body slamming. You were watching a giant,
but you would call your friends over. Your memories are
so closely connected to this because you would have your
friends over, or you'd go to your friend's house for
(09:56):
the pay per view. You know, you'd have a night
with your buddy, maybe a sleepover. These were the best
times in your life. So you don't want to hear
anyone dumping on those moments, you know what. You were
watching the Hulkster slam Andre the Giant the same year
you were collecting the wood Border nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Tops Baseball cards. Those were the primo days of.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Drop Steve Cavino in let's say nineteen eighty seven, and
you were a little schoolboy and you had your binder
full of wood Border eighty seven Tops cards seven. I
was wearing EyeBlack like Don Matnick. You were doing your
had a mullet like Dan Gladen. It was a big
year for the Twins. I was watching wrestling and I
was collecting, like you said, Yeah, those wood Border Tops
(10:39):
Baseball cards nineteen eighty seven, for short, I was a
primo time for a lot of us.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
If you're around that forty to forty.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Between forty and fifty years old, hold on, if you're
talking eighties mulleto eighty six eighty seven. Are you gonna
go Guyetti or you're gonna go Phil McConkie. You were
and you are in a New Jersey Guy Wow. As
far as mullet, I don't know my dad Big Steel.
I've Cavino had a pretty legendary mullet. Now based on
the loss of Hulk Holgan and some of the things
you may have heard here on Fox Sports Radio throughout
(11:08):
the day seventy one years old just adds to a
really wild week where again your childhoods.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Have taken a bit of a hit.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Is there another person as impactful to the industry as
he was to wrestling?
Speaker 1 (11:21):
We mentioned a few.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
I'll even throw Ozzy Osbourne in there because it's fresh
on the mind. But metal and rock, not just metal,
because metal is an acquired thing. Not everyone's into heavy metal,
I get that right, But rock as a genre would
not be what it is without Ozzy Osbourne. So you
could say, yeah, him to medal, Hulgan to wrestling, the
(11:44):
Babe to baseball, Like certain people, it wouldn't be what
it is today without them. What else comes to mind
and impactful deaths, because I think this is one of them,
and again for some people it's different. For some people
it might be a little bit of a conflicting sort
of feeling because they don't forget what he said.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
But I would.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I would say the death of Hulk Hogan is one
of the bigger ones over the last handful of years.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
They're gonna laugh.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
We just happened to have the Prince of Darkness and
Hulkamania both die in the same week, and the reality
is funny, I should say reality. They were both larger
than life guys, so much so that in their later
years they both had reality shows where they followed around
their families. We were fascinated with Ozzy Osbourne. We were
fascinated with Hulk Hoganan to get us to get a
(12:33):
look inside the household of the Hulkster or Ozzy Osbourne
and Sharon that was story real quick. We used to
tease Rich that, you know, he was in on the
family like Riches. Rich always had a great greater bond
than I did with the Halkster. Not because the Halkster
liked Rich more that was one of Rich's heroes. I
(12:55):
just always I always admired watch and watch wrestling like
anybody else. Rich of hul Colgan, Hulk Hogan, Joe Montana
and alf Right and Gary Gary car That's richest childhood.
Speaker 7 (13:08):
Right there, Gary Coleman, so him too.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
You know, the Halkster embraced us, Bud, he embraced Rich,
especially because he meant a lot to Rich in his childhood.
There was one point, can I say it. Yeah, I
went to the Hogan's house for lunch. And when I
was at the Holkster's house, I remember seeing a closet
and when I tell you a row of yellow tank tops,
how you would imagine it?
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Like that?
Speaker 1 (13:35):
So cool red boots, just a straight up like.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Yeah, this is the guest bedroom and you just saw
a closet was a yellow Wait a minute, the one
in bel Air the Bluffs, Florida, the one when they
were doing the reality show in.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Florida, Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
And that was a gorgeous house too.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
So and the other fun fact, I don't know if
it's gonna say this, but I'm gonna play behind the
velvet row. They were trying to write in a love
story for Brook and it was, you know, bending the
truth a little bit because Cleoney Brook was younger and
she had a crush on Rich because they would stop
by as a family on our show, and they wanted
to write Rich into the show as Brook's like older
(14:13):
love crush. It was it was, it was a thought
and I was like, yeah, I can't do that. Well,
Rich was in a relationship, but they were like, yeah,
are you open to this? And Rich couldn't look past
her and not Seell Holgan's face, you know what I mean.
But you know what, they were always kind to us.
And I know people have mixed emotions about the Hulkster,
but I mean he was an icon. Yeah, but much
(14:36):
like you said that the names of far and phebuteam
what Magic and Larry Bird did to start another controversial
when you mentioned him already though, But would pop music
be what it was without Michael Jackson the king of pop? Right,
He's a guy that brought everybody together because he was
undeniably great.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
If you were a.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Rock fan, a disco fan, a gay fan, whatever fan,
you know, Yeah, Michael Jackson's pretty awesome. This is pop music.
He's the king of pop.
Speaker 7 (15:07):
He survived what R. Kelly couldn't. Because radio stations are
not playing R. Kelly music any longer. This is so
damn but they're playing Michael Jackson's so it's just better.
Michael Jackson's media better than it's timeless. And obviously, since
he was a kid, he was a huge star. But
the other one that comes to mind really quick Covino.
I would have never watched golf in my adult life
(15:27):
had it not been for Tiger Woods.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
That's great.
Speaker 7 (15:29):
I mean, that's he's had a lot of controversy in
his life obviously.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Oh dude, Michael Jackson, Tiger, the all country is you
have to you don't have to love everything about the
man to acknowledge the impact that they had, right, I
think that's fair to say so.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. Wow.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
A little bit of a touchy subject, but again, that's
how impactful the Hulkster was.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
What are your thoughts?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Is there anyone else's impactful and any other deaths that
hit you as hard? There's a commonality, There's one I
have rich that comes to mind, and you may think
I'm joking, but I'm not. But there's a commonality there
because Paul Rubins aka pe Wee Herman was one for me.
And I know that sounds funny, but so much of
my humor and so many of my quotes and references
(16:17):
and childhood fun with Pewe's Playhouse, and so much fun
I had with my friends watching Peewe's Big Adventure, got
the chance to meet him a few times. He and
his comedy meant so much to me that when he
passed I felt terrible about it. And the commonality is
that we grew up in a time where these characters,
(16:38):
these artists, these entertainers leaned into the gimmicks so hard
that that's who they were. Paul Rubins was Pee Wee Herman,
Terry Malaya was hul Colgan, and we bought into it
and loved every second of it. And that's honestly one
of the benefits we have of being eighties kids and
growing up in that time. I wouldn't change it for anything.
But when he died, I felt like a part of
(16:59):
my childhood died a little bit. And that's how a
lot of people feel today. I wasn't like a mega
fan of this guy, but I remember really being bum
when Chris Farley died. I don't know why, because I
just felt like he had so much to give. Some
just hit you hard, diet different than others. Were not
a mega fan or though I mean like you were
a fan. I was a fan, but it wasn't like
man Farley is my favorite.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
I don't remember having a long time ago, but it
was right ninety seven, you know what it was.
Speaker 9 (17:22):
I was.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I was in the heart of like my high school
immature like Sandler Farley, David Spath and I just remember
being like that. It was in the pocket of that nineties,
late nineties comedy. So when we lost Farley, I was like, oh,
it's funny you say that, you say Farley, And of
course everyone was saddened by that, right, But I remember,
because I've been doing a show with Rich for twenty years.
(17:44):
I remember Rich being oddly upset. And again, it's going
to be different for everybody, universal for some. But when
Norm MacDonald died, it personally affected. You remember, really really
exceptionally personally sad about it. I was, and I am
a huge Norm McDonald fan. I feel like his comedy
is timing his whole awkward presentation.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
We all have our personal favorites. It's amazing. You know.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I don't want to put it out there. I won't
even name the people, but there's a few people that
are alive that I know I will be sad when
they're gone. I won't put the old Jamboozi, you know,
hex on them, but you know there's a few out
there that are getting up there in age, and you
will be rather upset, whether they're musicians or some of
your favorite athletes. In fact, Danny, we were just talking
(18:27):
about it around the time of the All Star Game,
We've lost so many baseball legends that guys like Mike
Schmidt eighties players are now some of the oldest legends.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
There's very few guys, like who is the oldest guy?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
We thought of Lefty Gomez, Like, oh no, no, Sandy
Kofex too, But we're talking about all the guys you
would think of the Hammer and Hanks and the Willie
Mays and that whole Tom Seaver.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
That generation of Gonaders.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Are the Schmidts and the Molitors and the Manningies, and
then the Bogs and those elders, the eighties guys you
grew up with. There's the Unks, the Ogs, and then
the elders. They're the elder statesman him. I'm so not bad,
by the way, not Lefty. But there were only a
couple of pitchers, right Rich. Yeah, I mean on that list,
we were looking up what Hall of famers are still alive,
(19:18):
and when I tell you, there was a couple, and
then it jumped right to our favorite stars of the
eighties and stuff, and I'm like, really.
Speaker 7 (19:24):
Yeah, Lefty died in like ninety I think, well, it's
a long time, but I know, but a lot of
the Sluggers though we were talking about Gone.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Yeah, it's listen, it's sad.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
It's a sad day for kids of the eighties and
nineties especially, So your thoughts will take your feedback. Next,
Rest in Peace, hul Cogan, Ozzy Osbourne like a wild
week and we'll get to all your feedback.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Next. Fox Sports Radio with your buds Cavino en Rich.
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(21:00):
he was a real American hulk Hogan. I was doing
some push ups and all that, right, because the Hawks
told you to.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Did you take your vitamins? Did you say your prayers? Yes?
Speaker 2 (21:11):
I said, I did all this my demandments. Well let's
remember too as we I still have my Hullcuggan workout
set from eighty five. I'm not surprised. I'm not surprised
he still uses ten pound weights, hand grips, the ten
pound weights. Are you surprised that it's not like you
got those pythons?
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Now?
Speaker 2 (21:31):
He's the real American in a time where the wwe
really leaned into those stereotypes, right, I mean in a
crazy way looking back, but we have to as a
culture remember it was just a different time.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
That's just how it was. And he was the shining.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Light and a time where you hated the Iron Cheek
in a fun way, right, in a fun way. But
he was the guy he didn't have to hear the
Iron Cheek did have cool boots, though, remember he didn't
have the curl and the point on the end, and
he humbled.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
The Holster even had the best ice cream bar on
the planet.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Oh yeah, I remember that for sure.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
How chalky and terrible were those WWS ice cream bars?
And on a throwback Thursday, let's not forget the cartoon, right,
the wrestling cartoon exactly. And he had his CDs. Remember
he was always jamming out and playing guitar, and he
was a nice dude. We've interviewed him many times and
we had a lot of moments with him. You know
(22:25):
what we did, Danny g As we reminisce a little
bit too. We would have him call up people we
had problems with. Like you hear how Rich is clearly
like agitated by Gottlieve today, right, because you're talking about
Rich's childhood hero and a lot of our childhood here.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
And we get it.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Hogan said questionable dumb things, but no one's perfect. And
I look at him as my childhood hero, not a
man that made mistakes.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
It's it's mixed emotions. I get that, right. Whatever.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
But let's say, let's say we wanted to really give
Doug a piece of our mind in a playful way,
we would have the Hulkster call up people on our
behalf like, listen to me, brother, you got the problem
my main man, Rich Davis.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
This is a true story, true story.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
There was a girl I was talking to and her
ex boyfriend was lingering, was threatening Rich and he was
threatening me like you go near her, I'll kill you.
And I'm like, yo, yo, you're her ex. Get out
of here. And I told Hulk this story on the air,
and he goes, what's his name?
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Brother?
Speaker 1 (23:18):
He called this.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Guy and left him a voicemail. Remember his name and
everything too. His name was Spencer Spence, slip me tell
you something, Spencer.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
I called Spencer too. This is great.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
It was so funny.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
So the Hulk stary was like so much fun to
have a larger than life hero, like almost a cartoon
character in your studio and in your presence.
Speaker 9 (23:42):
Man.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
He was that guy, man, and he's a guy who
took a lot of pride in saying I remember he
could be anywhere in the world and people would recognize
him because that red and yellow and the mustache to
handle more mustache was so synonymous. The Headman was so
synonymous with wrestling, he put it on the map. So
most of emotions is fun fact it was him, Muhammad
(24:03):
Ali and Mickey Mouse at one point with figures in
the world. You could be in a hut in the
middle of a jungle, is what he said, and they
would know who Hulk Hogan was and based on that.
Is it fair to have mixed emotions?
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Is it fair to say, hey, it's a huge part
of your childhood, so back off. Yes, But is there
anyone as impactful to their industry as him? There's a
few examples if you want to name some mothers by
all means due and then other just impactful deaths. Because
when a guy like that passes away, is a big
part of your childhood passes away, Well, that's that's what's
(24:39):
going to hit you later on. It will listen to this.
I know I don't want to be a prisoner of
the moment, but I really think I was Sam Your girl,
Caitlin Clark is the most recent example of someone that
is doing more for their industry sport or company than
anyone else.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
I have a question.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Wnba was on Life supp and Kaitlyn Clark is going
to get these women huge raises. They fly differently now
there's the tendance records, they have network deals. Kaitlyn Clark
is the babe, Ruth is the whole, Cogan is the
magic and Larry Bird of today. I would say, who
would you say is that for the UFC, because that's
(25:20):
another industry we saw sort of from the ground well, yeah,
from the ground up to where it is now? Is
there one person that stands out like yo, there wouldn't
be a UFC if it wasn't for that.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
I don't think there's one guy. Yeah, I can't.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
I guess there's different divisions. No one's undefeated, that's not
like a thing.
Speaker 7 (25:36):
So there's not you know, Mike Tyson love for boxing.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Mag Tager Ali, right, I would say Muhammad Ali, but
Mike Tyson for a different generation. Absolutely, But Hulk Hogan
was and is that guy. And you see not only
to our childhoods, but did you see Rick Flair today?
He couldn't keep it together. I mean it's so sad.
So people are speaking out and who would have thought
he'd go before Rick Flair, Right. It's so sad to
(26:03):
see your heroes and childhood heroes go down.
Speaker 9 (26:05):
Now.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
If you're watching on the live stream on the Fox
Sports Radio YouTube page, I don't know if it's accessible spot,
but you can look it up on your own if
you go to at Rich Davis or at Covine On Rich,
I posted a video this is about gotta be ten
fifteen years old Hull Cogan. We did a step by
step instructional. He taught me how to rip my t
shirt off. It's weird that you still do that at
(26:26):
the beach though, and in the bedroom. Yeah, you know, yeah, hey,
you know what, poor Sarah. Sometimes my WiFi sometimes my
wife will ask for do the hulkster. I'm like, you
drop the big lie and then and then at the end,
I do the whole Like I put my hand to
my ear. Just when you think Rich isn't ready for
round two, he hulks up and and he brings it again.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
What you're gonna do, Sarah?
Speaker 5 (26:47):
That match was not scheduled for one fall, No.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
No, no, no, you know what, Rich, because we got
to get through the phone calls and of course Tyreek
kill and old school in fifty hits. I can tell
you straight up, we're gonna talk about the top Hull
Call moments on over promised our bonus podcast that's an
hour and a half from now on Fox Sports Radios YouTube.
Will save it for there. We'll play the videos and stuff. Yeah, yes,
it's more of a video thing. So we'll do the
top Hulk Hogan moments on over promised our bonus show
(27:14):
later today, so join us live. That's at four pm
on the West, seven pm on the East Fox Sports
Radios YouTube page. And you know, there's a related pay
per views story in the news, so we'll talk about
pay per views because again, these are the best times
of our childhood.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
No doubt. In fact, that's what Hun and La hit
us up.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
But he's listening on the iHeart app and he said, Yo,
whatever people's feelings on Hogan are put that aside because
he was such a part of our childhood. If you're
thirty something to fifty something, you grew up with Hulk Hogan. Yeah, undeniable,
undeniable brother. Absolutely and as uh, I love the the
(27:52):
more eclips. I'm sorry you are not the brother. Yeah,
contrary to yeah twenty three to me proved by the way, now,
like did he change your lives? He changed the culture
of wrestling because all those dudes spoke like him with
the brother and brother and brother, they all did Brother,
Let's let's go rapid Fire and they'll go to Isaac
for an update.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Danny g who we got man?
Speaker 7 (28:13):
Let's start with Evan in Los Angeles?
Speaker 1 (28:15):
What's up? Evan?
Speaker 4 (28:16):
Hey Covino and Rich longtime listener. I love you guys.
You man, I'm like you Rich. I grew up with Hulk.
It is just like my dad love the Hulk. Like
I got the same brother from my dad. Like he
was like, hey, brother, you know this is what you're
gonna do. You know? It was just he taught me,
like and then I didn't even know who Hulk was
and they showed me Rocky and he's like, that's the Hulk.
(28:37):
And then after that he showed me all the whole videos.
He found stuff from swap meets to watch like Hulk
and Andrea the Giant Wrestle, and he was like, that's
because I was the Sonko Steve Austin Van.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Does anyone remember going to like Blockbuster or Hollywood Home
Hollywood Video and they'd have those Colisseum home videos, like
those random wrestling tapes with your buddy Sam Uh. Speaking
of Thunderlips and Sylvester st. Stallone, did post I had
the pleasure of meeting this brilliant personality in Showmill. He
was just twenty six years old. Leave Thunderlips Rocky three,
(29:10):
he was only twenty six. He was absolutely wonderful. Amazing
skill made Rocky three incredibly special. My heart breaks that
I think he's gone, you know. Coincidentally, today is the
anniversary of I have the Tiger hitting number one on
the charts. Get out of here the anniversary. All right,
let's go to who Denny, Richard and Tacoma.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
What's up Richard?
Speaker 4 (29:33):
Hey guys, I love you guys.
Speaker 9 (29:35):
Man, y'all get me while I y'all get me through while.
Speaker 10 (29:38):
I'm doing that every day.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Thanks man, y'all cracked me up every day. Thank you,
thank you.
Speaker 9 (29:45):
Oh So in the South, I'm from Alabama, but I
moved up here twenty years ago.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
In the South, we always say a group of three.
You know what I'm saying that.
Speaker 10 (29:54):
When people thought passing away.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
And one of my other heroes is for you from
the top of me show he just passed away.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
No doubt.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
He was the first of the three, and we acknowledged
it about that on Tuesday, and of course Ozzy and
then the Hulkster and on a side note, and it's
a shame, it's a footnote. But jazz legend Chuck man
Gione also passed away today at the age of eighty four,
and he's most famous for having an instrumental song that
everybody knew. It was like an elevator song that everybody knew.
(30:23):
It was such a hit when we were kids. I
came out in seventy seven. Feels so good, and ironically
we feel so bad talking about well, you know, let's
let's keep the phone calls coming.
Speaker 7 (30:33):
Who who got Danny j Let's go to Tony in Oregon.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Let's up ton Hey, Tony Hey.
Speaker 11 (30:38):
Thanks for taking the call.
Speaker 9 (30:39):
Guys.
Speaker 11 (30:39):
Yeah, fifty one years old. You know that's right my
wheelhouse early or late eighties, early nineties. Wwffmn. This was
freaking awesome, dude. There were so many good guys. You asked, like,
you know, who who passed away? A famous person that's
kind of that stuck with you. Is the first person
that came to my mind, and I kept thinking I
was like, no, I mean, it's it's not even its
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someone I really liked. I actually hated a guy. You know,
he's my nemesis, but I respected the hell and that
was Kobe Bryant. I'm a Blazer fan, and that go
I ripped my heart out several times, but I like, dude,
like that really affected me when he died.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Ye know, on a personal note, but also a very
public note. We all remember where we were when that happened.
Everyone has their story, and that's a great example because
I wouldn't consider myself a Lakers fan by any means,
but we were all Kobe fans and respected the Mama mentality,
what he stood for and the girl, that stuff that
he was all about, and what he was doing with
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his kids. We were headed to the super Bowl and
we remember seeing time stop at the airport when the
news broke and everything went in slow motion because you
saw everyone looking at their phone and we're like, what's
going on?
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Something happened? A stranger's crying.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
I thought I was thinking about a TSA agent break
character and start tearing up like some hard looking TSA
guy was like, he said, you know, it was a.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
True and I'm like I think so yes, I started to.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Everybody stopped at the airport like it was. It was
a really wild experience.
Speaker 7 (32:07):
The girl who checked me in at the hotel there
for super Bowl week, she was blubbering. She couldn't control
her emotions and it was weird. It like took the
wind out of the sales for the entire week.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Hugely impactful because it was so sudden and so tragic
and on the personal note, like I said, which was
public rich and I had to do a live TV
show for ESPN that night and the whole from the
like the fan fest of the Super Bowl, and it
was the most somber broadcast live because we had to
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do like Kobe coverage.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
It was Kobe coverage.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Mean while there's like marching bands at the super Bowl
behind us and behind us. It was like, that was
the most awkward thing I've ever done. Dany, Let's say
one more for now, then we'll go to Isaac for
an update. What's up Blake in Illinois?
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Yeah, what's up, Blake?
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Hey?
Speaker 12 (32:56):
What's going on?
Speaker 10 (32:57):
Pellis you were taking my call? I I grew up
in the early two thousands. I was born in ninety six,
so I was a big movie guy and one person
that really struck.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
My course that passed away with Robin.
Speaker 10 (33:09):
Williams, not only for his comic stand up but his movies.
I feel like they were iconic. You can't well especially
how he died. That just really sucked the wind out
of me.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Robin Williams is definitely on most people's list of celebrity
deaths that sort of hit him. If you were a
big rock fan of the nineties, you have to say
Kurt Cobain too, because of how much he impacted music
for that decade and that generation. There's so many examples
of that in the world of entertainment. Unfortunately, and again
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it's gonna be different for everybody. But when you think
about again how big Hulk Hogan was to wrestling, it's
understandable why so many people are upset today.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Yeah, let's go to Isaac Glow and Crown for an update.
Speaker 8 (33:52):
I lo what up man and indeed fellas That is
our top story, the passion of pro wrestling icon Hulk
Hogan dead at the age of seventy one after suffering
cardiac arrest at his home in Clearwater, Florida.
Speaker 5 (34:04):
Here was one of the many, many, many.
Speaker 8 (34:06):
Highlights from the Hulkster's epic career, This one of victory
over macho man Randy Savage in nineteen ninety with Vince
McMahon and Jesse the Body Ventura on the call.
Speaker 13 (34:20):
Carying the energy from all of us, honky maniacs all right,
pretending a Roger Holst.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Booster classic.
Speaker 13 (34:40):
Still who little reason to me.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
And I'm sure the uh mean Jean and the Fink
welcomed him to heaven.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
Oh boy, that is so true? Is it is?
Speaker 1 (34:56):
I've forgotten about the filo. I said this name.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
I said this on a our podcast Cavino and Rich
on Patreon. Very similar to like Ali and Cosell, the
relationship they had.
Speaker 5 (35:07):
A great analogy.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Yeah, scene, every quote, anytime you're quoting the Haulkster, you're
always throwing a mean gene. Let me tell you something.
You're a very Cosell Ali. Right.
Speaker 8 (35:18):
That's a great point, because I think what makes it
so memorable and nostalgic was the perfect storm, the confluence,
as we said, taking it from a local and regional
sport to a national sport. There was mean gene. There
was the advent of cable television. There was the Friday
night main event on NBC, and it all came together
at that time to make him so iconic.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
And the NFL New York.
Speaker 8 (35:40):
Jets quarterback Justin Fields dislocated a toe on his right
foot in practice today, but Fields is expected to be
ready for the regular season output or against the Steelers.
One Major League baseball game in the books, the Baltimore
Ools one in Cleveland four to three, just by two
home runs by Stephen Kwan Back. We go to Steve
Cavino and a man who turned down an offered to
be Hulk Hogan's son in law, Rich Dags're.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Sorry, truth, thank you, thank you, Isaac. Listen, we're gonna
get to some NFL this is a really interesting Tyreek
kill story. We're gonna get to. We'll talk a little
quarterback if you're watching that on Netflix, and we'll go
old school next. Right here, Covino and Rich on Fox
Sports Radio. YO, the Eye of the Tiger, absolutely anniversary
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of this song.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Huh, Well, we.
Speaker 9 (36:27):
Know that.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Rocky had the Eye of the Tiger, but so the Thunderlips. YO.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Live from the Fox Sports Radio studios, Cavino and Rich
and it's time for our ti Iraq Play of the Day.
We're gonna get to your phone call. So Hank Ty
eight seven seven ninety nine five, can.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
You do that?
Speaker 5 (36:43):
Why do some squad thrust?
Speaker 11 (36:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Yeah, yeah, you do your one hour pushups? Okay, perfect.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
But right after our show ended yesterday, we all gathered
around the monitors watching Freddie fin Freeman, the.
Speaker 5 (36:56):
Writer deals Freddie what.
Speaker 9 (36:58):
Field it is?
Speaker 7 (37:00):
Not?
Speaker 8 (37:00):
Talk by Beader that scores hold tiny behind him Ben
the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Walk it off.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
I love when the Randy Newman kicks in. That's courtesy
of five seventy AM Dodgers Audio Network, and you know,
be honest, great win. I think Harrison Bader should have
caught the ball, just saying yeah, but nonetheless a win.
I'll take a win on an error no matter what
the day is. But hey, that's a big win for
the Dodgers. Trying to get back on track. For over
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got to do old school and fifty hits. But we
had two quick phone calls. As we remember the late
great Hulk the Hulkster, and as we said, it's the
anniversary of Ia the Tiger hitting number one on the charts. Coincidentally,
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do you know the fun fact about Ia the Tiger
being the theme for Rocky three? If we're all fans
of Rocky three, remember Karate Kid? Of course You're the
Best around. That was supposed to be the theme for
Rocky three. When you listen to the lyrics, it lines
up with Rocky Well, he says.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
History repeats itself.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
They're talking about repeating itself in the boxing, but at
the last minute they go it's a little too soft,
and they went with Survivor I the Tiger, and then
they shop that song to Karate Kid.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
We'll get that fun facts, all right, two quickies, ol
go old school? What do we got?
Speaker 11 (38:26):
All right?
Speaker 7 (38:27):
John and Nevada?
Speaker 1 (38:27):
What's up Johnny?
Speaker 9 (38:29):
Hey, guys, what's going on?
Speaker 1 (38:30):
What's up in Hey?
Speaker 9 (38:32):
I don't want to say exactly where I live, but
Steve Austin is my neighbor, and he told me that
Terry did more behind the scenes to help people out
that he could have fort no.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
Well, remember, not only did he put the industry on
his back. All the guys that came up with him,
they were only making money when they were on his
cards and when he were wrestling him. Like he put
a lot of money in their pockets because he was
the guy making most.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Of the money. But they weren't making money unless he
was part of it. All right, one more quickie, who
we got all right? Before we go?
Speaker 7 (39:10):
Old school Tom and Iowa hy Tom?
Speaker 3 (39:13):
Yeah out here?
Speaker 1 (39:14):
What up?
Speaker 3 (39:15):
Yeah? I'll tell you what. When I was twelve years old,
I seen Hody Race wrestle a bear at the at
the high school arena down here, and I'm like that
set me up for Bulldog Bob Brown and all the
rest of the other blond was but Hardy Race. Yeah,
he wrestled a bear and then the bear beat him
and chugged to pepsi and like, wow, that was I'll.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Be honest, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Did you want to just smoke too much weed and
dreamt that King Harley Race fought a bear. By the way,
I wasn't a bear. That was George the Animal Steel.
You go okay, sorry, Yeah, he was just a hairy guy. Well,
look at the clock. We go Old School every Thursday.
Let's go there's a surge. Yeah, what we gonna go
back back.
Speaker 12 (39:57):
Into town throwing it back Thursday. Old School won fifty
hits at fifty after CNR give you the time capsule
topic and we reminisce together.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
All right, So let's set this up. We get you involved.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
Fox Sports Radio Nation eight seven, seven ninety nine out
Fox with the passing of Ozzy Osbourne, metal icon, Prince
of Darkness, the creator of the metal sound. When you
think of Rich your favorite album Pile Driver growing up, right, Well,
we saw a meme and the meme said it's a
five hour drive and you can only listen to one artist.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
Who's that artist? Ah, that's a good question. And you
know what, it's interesting enough.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
I went through the Black Sabbath Ozzie catalog the other
day and I knew way more Ozzy than I thought
I had known. Right, So, what is the artist that
you could listen to for five hours straight? And you know,
if you want to add a little fun in this,
what's the artist that you would dread listening to five
hours straight? So your favorite and worst will take your feedback.
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