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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, thanks for listening to the best of Cabino and
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by searching the FSR. Now, I don't know how your

(00:23):
barbershop is or who cuts your hair. I know this's
the places where it's like eight chairs and everyone's chopping
it up. That's not how our barber addy is. My
barber cuts my hair and then he lights it on fire.
You ever see those clips drop social media, chops it
with an axe. Yeah, I got a really advanced barber,
crazy techniques he uses, Like sure, you're not talking about

(00:44):
Greek flaming cheese. I don't know if it's an LA thing,
sam or what on fire. He's one of those guys.
You ever see those guys on social media where they
put all the like the wax up of guy's nose
and like, oh, that's what they do, and then they
spray paint my head Carlos BELTRN style.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yeah, so like your boy Ryan Holland.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yeah, right, Ryan said, so I'm in the barber chair.
Now you're my place, Danny g and I feel like
this is more common around the country, and that's awesome
because we are on the radio all over the country.
You know, there's salons and barber shops where every barber
or hairstyles has our own little room. It's like a building,

(01:23):
a facility, and everyone has their own little office. Essentially.
Our dude Addie always watching the NBA. He's got his
own little office. He pays for his own little chair. Yeah,
you pay for your chair, but it's not it's not
an open space. It's like little rooms. In the middle
of my haircut, some dude just walks in. He's like, hey, Hey,
what's up, guys. I'm thinking right, I'm in the middle

(01:44):
of getting a haircut. I'm talking about the Honestly, I
was talking about the NBA Western Conference and how there
is a four way tie. What is it The four, five, six,
and seven or something are the same exact record right
now and between the three and eight seed is two games.
He's a big Clippers fan. Pun intended he's a barber,
but he actually has a Clipper saying and he says
the clips don't lie. His clips don't lie. Yeah, man,

(02:06):
it's tight obviously, Oklahoma City first place. Rockets fifty two wins,
Lakers forty eight wins, Clippers forty seven wins. Everyone else
has forty seven wins. The Warriors, as we speak right now,
the Clips, the Nuggets, the Warriors, and the Grizzlies all
have the same exact record, and the Lakers are only

(02:26):
one game better than those teams. So five games tied,
five teams essentially tied. And this guy's like, hey, what's up, guys?
And I'm thinking, is this another barber coming to say
what's up? Is this his boy? It's a solicitor. He's like, hey,
what's your internet provider? And what's your cell phone plan?
Solicitors could go into a store and start talking to

(02:49):
people while they're working, and this guy would it stopped
after he's trying to talk about, like what do you
have now? He's like, yeah, man, I'm cutting hair, I
got t mobile. He's like, well, let me tell you
what ATNT is to offer me. This is extremely rude
and intrusive, and so what did you say and do?
And what internet provider do you guys have here at
this place? And my barbers trying to be all nice
like a man. I think we got like spectrum and

(03:11):
I got T mobile and yeah, so back to the
you know the clippers? Can you you know I went
last night? It's not on you. Your barbera addie who's great,
should have dismissed them immediately, being like, yo, man, I'm
in the middle of a haircut doing business right now.
You're distracting me. And if he didn't take it upon himself,
you have every right to repeat these words. Remember two words,
and you could use them for lots of things. I

(03:34):
use them multiple times a day, these two words. It
sounds lame, and you might think of Michael Jackson, but
they always work. Beat it, Hey, dude, beat it? What
are you doing interrupting my haircut at anyone? Distracting my
barber when I'm getting a haircut is in my way
and ruining my my time with the barber Diddy, It's
given him opportunity to mess up on your hair. I'm

(03:55):
a yappy guy. I don't mind chit chat with anyone.
But can you imagine going into a barber shop now,
in the middle of a guy cutting someone else's hair
and being like, who's your cell phone provider and continuing
the conversation to the point where I was like I
said to the guy, go yo, oh, my goy. I
admire your hustle, but pretty uh, you got some waybots
on you to interrupt a haircut.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
That's a job that requires a lot of focus too.
You imagine a solicitor coming into a checkup room at
your doctor's like, what are you doing?

Speaker 4 (04:23):
Man?

Speaker 1 (04:23):
By the way, it's a two way street, dad. It
happened to me once at the proctologist. I don't know,
but it's a two way street. Meaning a barber who
takes pride in their work. They don't like when you're
in the chair and you're turning your head to talk
to somebody else. They don't like that because then they'll
mess up and they have to deal with it. And
like I said, pride in their work. But at the
same time, when you're getting your haircut, two way street.

(04:46):
You don't want the barber to keep talking to the
other barber or someone else's talking about the game. You
don't want someone else taking their attention away from your
head sculpting.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
I had somebody try to chit chat with my tattoo artists. Yeah, no,
even more permanent. Yeah, please focus.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
No, you mean mog the guy you say, hey, respectfully,
you're distracting my moment here. It's not it's not appropriate,
and there's ethics involved. And I feel like this kid
way across the line, Danny's. That's why Danny's.

Speaker 5 (05:17):
Danny.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
She's tattooed. Doesn't say Kobe, it says co Ebb. He
mixed up the B and the E. No, let's be real. Yeah,
it's not a tattoo, Danny G. But people take their
haircut seriously. Wait a second, Kobe wasn't Jersey nine? No, yeah,
exactly what I just I want to throw it out there.
We're gonna get it to the NBA. But I know
everyone listening, there's enough distractions, no games on at the barbershop.

(05:38):
You know the culture of a barber shop, but when
you get your haircut, no one wants distractions. I just
thought it was the huayvos on this guy to start
trying to sell cell phone plans to my barber mid haircut.
And then I even said to the guy, I told him, like, man,
pretty uh, I admire your hut in the most. In
his defense, there was no sign that said no soliciting,
So I guess he had every sign. You gotta have

(05:59):
the sign that sign. I then said, you better at
least uh got this guy cut your hair. You better
sign up for a haircut if you're gonna bother him.
Two words, rich, beat it, beat it, beat it, dude.
Can I something actually similar to me happened last week.
I was napping and I think I woke up late.
The sun was already down. I was like seven point
thirty and I get my doorbell rings. I live in

(06:21):
an apartment and not a lot of apartments have doorbells.
But I was like, huh, jolted awake, I'm all groggy.
I opened the door and I think you jumping up
like Cramer when you did Oh, totally hairshaking all over
the thing.

Speaker 6 (06:31):
So I opened the door and I'm I'm like hello,
and it's a guy trying to sell me a Verizon
Internet plan.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yeah, it's intrusive.

Speaker 6 (06:37):
And I was so and I gotta respect the guy
because it's a tough job doing, being like door to
door salesman. It's not a thing you see a lot
these days. He's a very nice young man, and he
started asking me hard hitting questions and he was right,
I pay way too much your internet. Now, after like
five years with his one company, he had a better
price for me. But I was so groggy and out
of it that I was like, uh, like, I answered

(06:58):
a few of his questions and I was just like,
I gotta go, and then I just closed the door.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
Kay.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
It was so awkward. I get it, you don't want
to be rude, but it's still not okay. It's when
people call you when you're at work because they're trying
to sell you some nonsense. You know someone, I'll throw
FaceTime in there. I feel like that's intrusive too. It's like, yo, dude,
beat it. And when someone goes to your apartment or
condo complex that's a hall their ball game, or to
your home up to your personal space, your driveway, especially

(07:24):
if you have kids and you got some stranger walking
into your your property because he's trying to sell you
some nonsense. Kid out of my face.

Speaker 6 (07:32):
I get I had a good deal for me, though,
I was like, that is a point I actually should swell.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
Then that's on you and then call them up. You
know you don't you know that guy bothering you when
you're taking a nap I was like, but here's the deal.
We forget that it wasn't long ago that everyone knew someone.
It could have been your uncle, your neighbor. There were
people that were door to door salesman. That's what people did.
They sold the oh vacuums. I'm a door to door
sales It's alarming now, Rich, it's not as common as

(07:57):
it used to be. Yeah, I get it. The Avon
he would be there hanging out with your mom. You
thought that that woman was your mom's friend. Someone was
selling Avon Colling. It was like their little jingle cutcode.
Dude was there. You're a new phone planned guy. Yeah,
WANs trying to sell you those TV dinners. Jehovah's witness
person Like that happened all the time. It's few and
far between now, so that's why it's alarming. And poor

(08:18):
Sam almost had a heart attack. You need your skin
so soft to the mosquitoes. But no, just just a
reminder that it wasn't long ago that we were used
to people knocking on our door and we were okay
with it. Door to door salesman, that was the thing.
Now it's rude. Someone's trying to sell you a solar
or pest control. You know, you can't justify it, dude,
if you were getting a massage, this guy walked in

(08:39):
and just to give him a pitch, that's on your time,
on a service you're paying for. Its distracting the barber
or the messuse or whatever. That's just inappropriate. We can
move on to the NBA now, which is what I
was talking about Barber about when I was interrupted by
this guy, and it's so sorry, it really I had
to bring it up only because I needed affirmation in
the room that I wasn't losing my mind. Because I'm

(09:00):
not a picky guy with that type of stuff. I
get it. But I found it very odd that mid haircut,
some guy thought my barber's attention should be on his
cell phone. Plants, this guy's he's got the clippers, trying
to give me just the right fade. And this guy's like,
how about you're playing month for you? Are you kidding me?

Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (09:18):
I mean I guess, yeah, you do commend the hustle,
but not on your time, not on your west. Well,
while I was talking about Barber, it was about the
Western Conference, and as I said, after all this time,
we're less than a week away into the NBA playoffs,
and the Lakers and Clippers one game apart, the Golden
State Warriors, the Denver Nuggets, Lakers, Clippers, Memphis, and Minnesota's

(09:44):
only one game behind them. It is tighter, like you said,
than a pair of skinny jeans in the two thousands.
But last night was a game tighter than yours medium
shirts that used to get at Express men's medium. Yeah
you're tight, well, T shirts used to wear. I got
a gap kids. The Lakers, they got the three seed,
their game up on all these teams, but you know,
maybe they could have been two games up. There was

(10:06):
a close game last night in Oksee and was close.
There was a I mean there was.

Speaker 5 (10:13):
It was.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
It was a one point game. Luca drives to the basket,
makes a pretty damn good shot in traffic, and then
you see him like it appears to be barking towards
the sideline, so towards the bench, to the crowd.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
Perhaps he put them up to one oh seven at
that point.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
And all of a sudden, whistled blows he gets teed
up second, one out, and you see the Lakers and
JJ Reddick looking like, what did Lebron help him? Plead
the case. He's saying he barked at a fan, the
ref seemed like he was fed up. What is your

(10:50):
initial take? Is your initial take that when the refs
and officials, their ego gets in the way where getting
it right takes a backseat to their feelings. Well, here's
the thing. We often take like one side when it
comes to sports talk radio especially, but the truth is
there's more than one side to this, right because I
do see, like, hey, you know, the fans aren't here

(11:11):
to see the rev throw out the biggest star in
the game. That's not what you're paying crazy amounts of
money to see, especially when you got kids there and
they're like, oh, Luca, especially in a meaningful game and
this game that matters. You've seen this in baseball as well,
where like a Bryce Harper, a star player, you know,
might get a little chippy and the umpire, but at
the same time, you have to have the wherewithal as

(11:34):
a superstar to know that you're one call away from
being out of the game. So you know, you got
to acknowledge that too, and you're gonna let as Ben
Maller said, your boy. Ben Maller went off on Luca DANNYG.
And I know it's your boy too. I must be
weird because Dannyg's the biggest Lakers fan and Ben Mallor
hates on Lakers and they're good.

Speaker 3 (11:51):
Yeah, we talk about it on the Fifth Hour podcast
every weekend, but I laugh about it because Ben just
has a very unhealthy infatuation with the Lakers. He is
definitely a closet Lakers fan.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
He was like, Luca is a baby who's crying, and
thrownt out of the game because some guy in a
Bolo tie got under his baby's skin. You're gonna let
a guy wearing a Bolo tie in a stand And
it's so true. It's like, yes, I hate that the
refs threw him out of the game, meaningful game people

(12:24):
are there to see him, not you. But come on, dude,
you gotta be better than that. I understand.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
I understand that point, and had you had he gotten
into it with that ref right there, I could understand that.
But as a player, if you're responding to a fan
that's been chirping at you in your mind, are you
thinking I'm gonna get a.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
Tech for this?

Speaker 1 (12:44):
No? But he's clearly rubbing the referees wrong, right, it's
not his first time that he's having a problem or
crying to the refs. And my point here is simply
that two things could be true, and I think there's
little truth to both of those things. Rich your take
where the refs, you know they're going a little over
there when a ref were an official or an umpire

(13:06):
makes it about them and their feelings being heard, Are
you overstepped That's That's not the point. You're there to
officiate the game. The game is still about the fans
going there to see the star players and the game
be played. And I think there's a pride in letting
something be overturned. I remember there was a play at
a Yankees game. You remember this clearly. I'm sure you're
a Yankees fan. Aaron Boone was chirping at the umpire

(13:30):
and the umpires like one more word out of you, Boonie,
You're out of here. One pitch later, someone in the
stands is like bag fall boo. The umpire turns around,
he's like, boom out. He didn't say a word, and
he read the ventriloquist. He threw his voice like the
fan threw his voice at Boone. And then they just
imagine that John Boy breakdown of Boonie's saying that I

(13:52):
didn't say anything. I didn't say anything, and he comes
storm out of the dugout. And here's the other side, Rich,
you and I talked about earlier. To wrap up that point, though,
I think you have to be able to then maybe
correct yourself if there was evidence in any fashion that
all right, let's go. You know, they replay fouls, they
replay things. What if they go, you know, let me

(14:13):
take a look at the tape. If Luca, if you,
if Lebron and JJ Redick, everyone's like, no, ref you
got it wrong. I promise you yea. Why does it
have to be like a final call? Intone the not
judge Judy, They're not the judge, declaring Stone.

Speaker 3 (14:27):
And that well known OKC fan admitted they talked to
him after the game, and he admitted that, yeah, Luca
was chirping back at me and the refs could have
got that mistaken, but he was talking to me.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
That's wild. And by the way, I was saying, you said,
you have Lebron and Luca talking about this after the game.
Where do we want to start you want to do
Let's start with Luca himself.

Speaker 7 (14:47):
You can see it that happened. But you know, I
never got a fan in Jacton never. But if he's
gonna talk, I'm going to talk back, like holy so
that they had nothing to do with the ref. So
I didn't really understand.

Speaker 1 (14:59):
He didn't understan that had nothing to do with the
reps in here is Lebron James.

Speaker 8 (15:03):
It was a weird we're a couple of minutes after that,
I'm start home with the rejection. I don't know why
the ref was taking it personal. He had already gave
Luca one and Luca knew that. And uh, Luca was
going back and forth at that time with the fan
that sitting coursight like Luca does, and fans get to
talk with the talk out of their mind, whatever the
case may be. And he was going back or forth
in the rep took it upon himself to think it was,

(15:26):
you know, verse him or whatever the.

Speaker 1 (15:27):
Case may be.

Speaker 8 (15:28):
But I've been another tea on Vando after a block
shot and this game was just just weird as.

Speaker 1 (15:35):
Tail after that moment, weird weird as hell. Yeah, but
you can't fly off the handle all the time, and
you don't want that sort of reputation to be with
you in these crucial moments. And there is the flip
side to the story too. Where As I gave credit
to him before the great Ben Mallor, we are now
starting to see why Nico Harrison made the right move,

(15:56):
you know, because he's saying he's uncoach of baby. But again,
your reputation sometimes precedes yourself. And I think if he
wasn't crying all the time and rubbing the ref's wrong,
they wouldn't have been quick to toss him.

Speaker 9 (16:13):
I'm with Cavino on this because he wouldn't have got
tossed if he didn't have the first technical. It only
would have been his first technical of the game. It
was because it was the second one that he got tossed,
by the way. Dave McManamon covers the NBA and the
Lakers for ESPN reports that the NBA has notified the
Lakers they've rescinded the second technical against Luca from last

(16:35):
night's game.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 3 (16:39):
Yeah, And I'm glad dB pointed to that first tea
because it's telling what Vando said about it. He said
that he thought he got fouled. This was when Luca
was arguing about Vando getting fouled on that first tea.
He says, I did get slapped across the head. That's
what Luca was telling the ref. He told him what happened,
and the ref told Luca, I'll talk to any buddy,

(17:00):
but you Luca. So it seemed a little personal at
that point, and he teed him up.

Speaker 1 (17:04):
So you're saying the NBA has said we take it back.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
The second day, Yeah, recived it the second one.

Speaker 1 (17:10):
To quote the great Robbie Hart, that's information I could
have used yesterday one later. Can we go back to
the fourth quarter then?

Speaker 9 (17:21):
But I think Gavino's point is still true though, Like
just if it's followed him everywhere, obviously followed him from
Dallas to la you gott to tone it down a
little bit because otherwise you get caught in these situations
where you do chirp and people think like the reputation
preceded him in this situation.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
Yeah, and two things can be true.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
Rich.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
I do agree that the refs they get on a
power trip sometimes and it's annoying for the fans, and
it's annoying as a basketball fan because you don't get
to see the true outcome of the game. It's a
meaningful game. So I see all the sides here. Two
things can be true. We often take one side here
when it comes to sports talk. Could I throw a
fun ref umpire nugget in here? There there was a

(18:04):
trend that maybe began, which is why they shut it
down immediately in spring training this year before the MLB
season kicked off. What were they sampling in the preseason
in the in spring training? Oh, the strike's on call, right,
you're challenging the strike your helmet. They made it very
clear that if you do that in the regular season,

(18:28):
it's a sneak diss at the ump So, like, let's
say Aaron Judges like that was outside, even though it
doesn't matter if he jokingly, he's like tap tap, that
is automatic. That's like equally being mouthye like, because you're
showing up the umpire doing the little tap of your
helmet is your subconscious way of being like BS. Well,
even on the lowest of levels you coach pony league

(18:52):
baseball and girls softball, isn't there an unwritten rule where
a parent can't talk back to the umpire, not even
a word. So on the lowest of levels, if the
kids know and the parents know, everybody knows and the
lowest of levels that it is what it is. No,
you can't even do it when Luke already has one
on him. He has to zip it up a little

(19:13):
bit in these crucial moments. You know, it's even the
learning lesson moving forward. There was a warning email that
went out this is this can't just be the you know,
the kids sports I coach. There was a warning to
the parents and the coaches that if a ball is called,
you can't even be like, like, don't worry Sophia, a
great pitch, Like you can't even zero tolerance thing, right.

(19:34):
You can't even insinuate like do that again, honey, that
would that like that was a strike, like you you
cannot even insinuate that the umpire got it wrong in
kids sports. So if you just joined us, Rich is
saying that the ref's ego. That's what he said in
the pre show meeting. The ref's ego killed a great game. Yeah,

(19:55):
the ego. At the same time, you have to acknowledge
that Luca's reputation may have preceded himself here in this situation.
As you said, I agree with you. Multiple things, multiple
things can be right at the same time, and I
think that there's nothing wrong with getting it right. That's
why replay has entered the world of sports, basketball, baseball, NFL,
college football, everything, because we want to get it right correct, don't.

(20:16):
We want to get the call right. So in that instance,
if everyone on that Lakers bench, including the victim himself,
Luca was like, I'm telling you, you got it wrong.
What is the harm. Sometimes you see him at that
scorer's table for a minute or so looking if a
ball's inbounded, it goes off to someone. You couldn't have
taken the thirty seconds to look who Luca was addressing.

(20:37):
You know, there's one hundred cameras.

Speaker 10 (20:40):
Luca throws up an eight foot of her cut and
the Lakers lead one o eight, one oh seven.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
Oh, look at this, not.

Speaker 8 (20:46):
Throwing out Why he was talking trash to a fan
and the refie thought he was talking to him.

Speaker 1 (20:53):
Oh, this is an absolutely horrible.

Speaker 10 (20:55):
Decision by jg or by the official, Absolutely horrible. You
cannot throw a star player out of an NBA game
for talking to a fan.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
No refer thought he was talking to him. Oh my gosh,
this is unconscionable. You cannot do this. In a game
that's this good.

Speaker 10 (21:16):
This is one of the worst pieces of officiating I
have ever seen, and I've.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
Done this for twenty five years.

Speaker 10 (21:24):
I hate this call and I would say the same
thing if they were doing it to shame. You cannot
Michael throw a star player out of.

Speaker 1 (21:33):
The game for talking to a fan.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
He didn't think he was talking to the fan.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
I don't care thought he was talking to him. That's
why he threw look out.

Speaker 10 (21:41):
They had three Lakers explain it to him, and he
still stuck to its guns because his ego is bigger
than Lucas stan in the game.

Speaker 1 (21:49):
That's courtesy of the Lakers Audio network. We are Cavino
and Rich on Fox Sports Radio no Ireland said he
got the enthusiasm is like, oh the humanity Like with
the Hindenburgers.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
They don't usually hear him that fired.

Speaker 1 (22:05):
You ever hear the boxing announcer Moro Ronaldo unbelievable. This
is a travesty. No really, man, that's a wild one.
And like we said, two things can be true. But
oh Luca's crying. Is he a sports baby or was

(22:25):
it legit? Did the refs overstep? Both could be true,
but man, he's getting beat down today. Like I said before,
Ben Maller here on Fox Sports Radio calling him a
he's a spoiled brat.

Speaker 2 (22:41):
Cite another host, because we know Ben mallin.

Speaker 7 (22:44):
Mad do.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
Impossible to root for, Impossible to ut.

Speaker 3 (22:52):
What what he says about Luca could also apply to
mad Dog Russo impossible.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
Man. You definitely don't want to see the repst home
out in that moment as well. And the Lakers go
down and a big night for Luca today. They're handing
out thank you Luca t shirts and again his return
to see his as Lucas said at the press conference,
his teammates, I mean my ex teammates. I have thoughts
about that. Would you want to thank you Lucas shirt? Well,

(23:19):
it's his return to Dallas and it's going to be
a very overwhelming emotional night. I think that's a teacher
Luca once again.

Speaker 3 (23:26):
Well, those MAVs fans were hotter than hornets when Luca left.
They're still upset rich.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
That's true, But I mean, like I feel like that's
the show you end up washing your car with or
something like that. So do you blame the ref's ego
or do you blame Luca? That's the question of the day,
hit us up at Covino and Rich and we'll still
take your phone calls at eight seven, seven ninety nine
on five. In fact, we have people that want to
chime in on door to door sales folks. As I
told you, I was getting a haircut today. In the middle,

(23:50):
in the middle of getting my hair done, barber's got
the clippers doing the precision fade, some clipper work. Maybe
eat respectfully. The salesman saw the size of your head,
it was like, well, I can't wait another three hours.
It's gonna take a while. Yeah, it's gonna take a while.
If you don't mind, I'll be quick. Let's say hi
to Matt in Indiana. What's up Matt?

Speaker 4 (24:12):
Hey, thanks for having me.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
Guys, what's up, buddy?

Speaker 11 (24:15):
Hey?

Speaker 4 (24:17):
When I heard that, I know you guys always talk
about Costco, SAMs Club and all that, and they've been
really badly lately with those phone sales people. And I
have to tell my wife that make sure you tell
them that we have the most upgraded technology, and yes
we're with their planners. So I wish they would go
away to no solicitation at those stores.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
You know what I did the other day I was.
I was so embarrassed. I was at Costco. Thank you buddy.
And you know they do the samples and you do
the fake enthusiasm like, no, this is good?

Speaker 5 (24:44):
How much are these?

Speaker 1 (24:45):
I just like a weird instinct to look fake interested,
especially at the mall. You're like, bourbon chicken, what's that?
Love to have and never had one?

Speaker 5 (24:53):
Sure?

Speaker 1 (24:54):
Oh the pretzel I've had five thousand times. Can I
get a sample? Yeah? I never had? Send him in
tasty pretz. We'll have to do the fake interest, almost
like when someone asked you, I do you have a pen,
and you know you don't. You do the weird check like,
oh no, you check you, you check your pockets. Damn
well mom, you don't have a pen. Orange chicken? What's that?
What is this? I don't know why. They must have

(25:16):
been getting rid of, like bread that was almost expiring.
One of the handouts at Costco was simply bread with
like a garblic butter spread on it. And I go mmm,
and my wife goes you just it's bread, Like now
you're over his toast. What a luxury? Just bread with butter.

(25:38):
Oh it's exotic, you're rich. I know this is a
side conversation for another day. But there's a jabbroni on
the Washington Nationals that I keep seeing. Danny, you gotta
find out who it is. Oh, he almost got a
single just now. He has the weakest mustache I've ever
seen on a major league player. Dude, pencil thin like

(26:03):
weak ass mustaches. Yeah, please find out who this is
is the we I keep seeing it every time I
look up. It's so weak it needs to be called out.
But anyway, we're Cavino and Rich on Fox Sports Radio
and you got to stick around for midweek major beat it.
Don't let other people interrupt your haircut. You don't want

(26:25):
to take the focus off your haircut. I can't believe
Danny g won up that story where someone was chatting
with his tattoo artist. Yeah, that's the worst. That's there's
no worse than that. Now, Danny, a barber, you could
be like, hey, we're I'm getting a haircut here. If
I was getting a tattoo and someone was taking the
attention away from the person putting ink on me, I

(26:47):
would lose my mind. Imagine that. How about when you're
in like the middle of an order or you're dealing
with someone at the register and then someone else comes in.
They start like interrupting because they forgot there drink or something.
You're like, oh dude, you're now you're interfering with my time.

Speaker 6 (27:04):
I just hate that when someone comes up to you
and starts talking about torpedo bats.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
I yeah, get out of my face, beat it. Thank
you if you just joined us. Rich was getting a
haircut and some salesman came in and started interrupting the
whole deal, taking the focus off his trimmage. And it
wasn't even like, like I said, a barbershop with his like,
you know, eight chairs and everyone's chopping it up. This
is one of those places where this individual rooms stalls.
Yea swells, it's that sweets essentially. Sweet guy walks in.

(27:30):
I thought it was his buddy. I'm like, oh, your
buddy's here. We're talking the NBA, and the guy's like, hey,
who's your provider for your cell phone? Are he's heies
right now. Now, it's Cavino and Rich live from the
tiraq dot com studio. We've talked a lot about Luca.
It's amazing to see like I happen to find my
personal opinion Luca to be an amazing basketball player and

(27:51):
so likable. That's how I view him, and then it's
amazing to see how other people view him as nothing
but a cry baby sports baby. And I really think
that a lot of it comes from I just don't
like the Lakers. It's really it because I never really
heard that much cry baby hatred towards Luca before. I
think you're right, all right, So be aware of what
we're saying here on the Cavino and Rich show. We're

(28:13):
professional social observationalists or something. There's stats of my business cards,
so Danny, I said, radio tycoon. Yes, but underneath it
says observation. He has horns on the front of his
car like a boss hog. But I'm telling you it's
the awareness theory, because you'll see how many people are like,
all of a sudden, Luca's the biggest crime baby.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
That ever was.

Speaker 1 (28:33):
I thought that was Lebron. Wait a minute, how could
he be the biggest crime baby if his teammates the
biggest crib. I'm looking at the Western Conference and not
the harp on it. But we did talk about how
Lakers at the three seed are one game better than
one two, three four teams Clippers, Nuggets, Golden State, and
the Grizzlies are all one game behind the Lakers, and

(28:55):
then the eight seed the Minnesota Timberwolves, and then then
nine and ten. Here's where, listen, I get it. We
like the extra playing game. It's fun, I suppose. But
right now, to me, Danny, it's very clear there's eight
teams in the West that deserve it. Sacramento and Dallas
are under five hundred. Call to day. I mean, if

(29:15):
one of those teams.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
You saw that, to Ad, who's going to be balling
his heart out tonight.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
He will know he will. But once we get those
playing games next week. I mean, honestly, look look at
that right there. Minnesota at the eighth seed is only
two games behind the Lakers. In the three seed. Sacramento
and Dallas have no business.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
Don't forget.

Speaker 3 (29:34):
Sacramento is just a year removed from being a powerful
team in the West.

Speaker 1 (29:38):
I remember, I remember, like the meme, we love that
a year ago. But I don't know the Eastern Conference.
The fact that the whole playing round, the seven, eight, nine, ten,
are all under five hundred. Cool, he just skip around
to the next rounds. I mean, we all know the
NBA playoffs takes forever to begin with. I think it's

(29:58):
very clear there's a lot of teams in it to
win it. But seven, eight, nine, ten the bottom get
him out. Well, you know what rich next hour not
only midweek Major, but speaking of the NBA, we're gonna
talk about a former San Antonio Spurs legend if we
have time, because the show's moving fast. But you can
only talk about dire wolves or what.

Speaker 2 (30:18):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
I you know, we're talking about dire wolves in a second,
But first I just throw something by you. It's a
theory that I feel like some people would be like,
you have nothing wrong with that, and other people are
going to say, this is a sports crime. And this
has to do with being a city guy. Rick Patino,

(30:41):
Saint John's always a New York guy, right, And he
talks about it, and they asked him about, wait, do
you have a Mets or Yankees fan? Because he showed up.
He showed up at a Mets event and Sam, we'll
play the sound next hour. He sort of describes how
he's a Mets and Yankees fan, and my first instinct

(31:03):
is it can't be a Mets and Yankees fan. Can
you be a Lakers and Clippers fan, if you're in Chicago,
I remember Sebastian Maniscalco recently got crap of this Sebastian,
how can you do that? He threw out the first
pitch at the Cubs game, and those old school buddies
were like, y, bro, you're a white Sox guy. Wait,
he's a white Sox guy. Aren't you a bas So?

(31:26):
I mean, I think you still take the honor in
that particular case. Are you going to refuse to throw
the pitch at at Wrigley? No? But he said, well,
I mean I'm a white Sox I bet I'm a
shit cag gag guy getting out of my car. Patrick
one of the editors here Associate producers. I don't know
if that's his title, but I just gave him a
promotion executive producer, you know, Fox b K. Patrick, That

(31:52):
mastadon over there. His mom, Maureen bakes cookies every once
in a while and he brings them in. I gotta
tell you, I look forward to that, A tray of
pretzels dipped in chocolate cake pops cookies. She's the best, man.
I love it.

Speaker 3 (32:06):
Spot sabbing with a pretzel, he said, put that down.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
And eat one of the cookies.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
Now, yeah, everybody in their car and at home you
get to reap the benefits of the seeing our fun,
but you're missing out on Marene's cookies. Wish you were
here with us in La. You know what it is?
Every every mom they they want what happened to Marine?
Just now she sent her son to work with take
some treats. If Patrick comes in, he's a grown man,

(32:32):
mind you, but he comes in like, look what my
mom baked and we love it. It works, it's the best.
I look forward to it. That's what. Don't you think
the mom does that with the intention of, like, I
hope him and his friends like the.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
We do.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
It's the best, man, and that's how you make friends too.
Patrick just went up my AP rankings of producers and editors. Yeah, Patrick,
he's the best. So thank you guys for hanging out
with us and being part of our family. Like we said, now,
this hour every Wednesday Midweek made stories in all the
sports and pop culture. Are they mid Week or major
spots on that at spots center on social media at

(33:06):
Covino and Rich and a new feature Mike you know
who runs this place. His Wednesday words of wisdom. So
we'll be giving you some of those later on because
we have to be subject to them. You have to
hear it. I don't know how we could wait for
that any longer, but we have to because I want
to talk Rick Patino for a second. Sure we talked
about having secondary teams, not you can't claim more than

(33:27):
one team. We'll make it clear. Rick Patino, he is
New York. He's born in New York. He's from New York.
He's a native of New York. But he was at
City Field hanging with the Mets, and a reporter did
ask him, listen, you got a Mets jersey on, aren't
you a Yankees guy? And this is what Rick Patino said.

Speaker 11 (33:45):
Well, as a kid, I used to go watch Mickey Mantle,
Roger Maris, even reserves like hect Lopez, Johnny Blanchet, Kuebec Richison,
Cleatis boy, one of a great third basement of all time.
White he fought on the mound, Yogi and you know
it's you grow up as a youngster sitting in the
bleach of seats. I think for a dollar eighteen at

(34:06):
the time, if I can remember. But I was always
a Met fan of Kuzman and Siva and going back
to Tommy Age and I'm one of the few people
that rooted for both teams. Anything with n Y on it,
I'm one hundred percent behind it.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
Okay. Now, first of all, he went way back with
his Yankee fandom, right, And if you're gonna call Cleet
Boyer Cletis Boyer, yeah, you're clearly a Yankees guy. He
went back to Luke garrig in that little rant. He
went on, he's a Yankees fan. Now does this count?
Can he be both? Can you be both? He is

(34:41):
a New York dude. We made that clear. I think
you could pay respect to your city and not hate
on the other teams because it's part of where you're from,
but you can't be rocking the other jersey. Example, I'm
a Yankees fan, and I'm not gonna hate on the
Mets because I'm from the East Coast. I hate on them,

(35:01):
but I'm not gonna wear a Mets jersey. Ever, that's
the difference. Ever, we are in the minority that, yeah,
we bust each other's chops about the Mets and Yankees,
but I don't hate the Yankees. I have Mets fan
friends that are like, ever, unless Cityfield invited me to
throw out a first pitch, that might be the only exception,

(35:21):
because what am I gonna do disrespect them and say no?
Only what would you do in that moment?

Speaker 2 (35:27):
Right?

Speaker 1 (35:27):
I get it, So you know I can't say never,
But you don't just rock the other team's jersey. It's like,
if you're a Lakers fan Danny G from California, do
you hate the Clippers or like if you're in another
country or another state, are you gonna be like, yeah, man,
you know they're LA So I respect them, but I'm

(35:48):
a Lakers guy.

Speaker 3 (35:51):
Have some hate towards Donald Sterling. I think a lot
of Los Angeles hates the Clippers former owner and all
the stories and facts about that guy from back in
the day. And it's the Clippers fans. I think they
talk about Lakers so much that you're like, pay attention
to your own little redheaded step child team that you call.

Speaker 1 (36:09):
Them the redhead that's what they are. And you know
what they both though, because if you're both it's like women, right,
It's like the Bachelor when he's like, I'm in love
with two women. To me, you know what that says? Yes,
I know it's kind of possible, but it really means
that you don't love one enough, because if you did,
you could be with her.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (36:28):
I have what I call interests. I'm a die hard
the college like a secondary interest. Yeah, you minored in
something well, like NFL. If you know our show, you
know that I'm a Niners guy. But there's certain teams
that have they do well. I'm happy for them. I'm
certainly not rooting, like I'm a fan, but that's totally fair.

(36:51):
My mom, Danny g I family members are like the Raiders,
and being that I'm from New York, I have a
soft spot for when the Jets actually do something good,
I'm like, oh, good for them. I know root against teams,
but I would never say I have more than one team.
But then again, Rick Patino is as New York and
old school as you get, so I have a hard
time sort of hearing his answer and hating on it

(37:11):
because who's more New York than that, Who's more New
York and who dedicated their life more to sports? Right, exact,
poor way to judge, but it still does rob me
the wrong way, respectfully, because here's what he could have said,
Oh yeah, that's right. I grew up, oh, loving the
New York Yankees, you know, from Cleat Boy to Babe Ruto.
I love them all, Cletus, you know Cleta's Boy and

(37:32):
Yogi Berra all the Yankee Clip bund Who all the way, Toghetti,
Red Accent, Bagleo Rulelo Damn Bosco. I love them all,
Loop Panela. Oh, but I gotta say I'm wearing the
Mets because I Tom Siva. I love them. Oh yeah,
Greg Jeffries was one of my favorites.

Speaker 5 (37:52):
Jeffries.

Speaker 1 (37:53):
If you're you're allowed to have to like players, you
know what I mean? So if his thing was I
really loved you know, Tom's this Tom sever Era, he
could have said, I love Tom sever and Darryl Strawberry
were heroes about Do you give Rick Patina love players?
Do you give Rick Patino an exception because he's such
a notable man in the sports world that's his industry.

(38:14):
N I mean, because he's Rick Patino, it means he
hasn't made up his mind. But it's like, yo, you're
just being selfish now. He maybe it's like Show's one.
He's so inside. He works and has coached and one
of those legendary dudes in sports, So maybe he's allowed
to look at it at everybody. Is he not a
person pick one? You gotta pick one. You can't pick both,
you know what.

Speaker 3 (38:32):
It reminds me of a little bit here on the
West Coast growing up, and I had some years in
the Bay Area as well, but here in southern California,
I've known Dodger fans that will go to Angels games
a couple of times a season, and they don't have
anything against the Angels. It's just like they're in the
American League. There's no threat to the Dodgers, you know
what I mean. And so that's that's what I think of.

(38:55):
Like I have some step children who love Mike Trout
and they love show early on because he was an Angel,
and it was like they weren't Angels fans, but they
had no hate for him.

Speaker 2 (39:05):
They rooted him on even though they were Dodgers fans.

Speaker 1 (39:08):
Does Patino get the pass? Just something that was kind
of funny stood out to us because he's clearly a
Yankees fan and he proves that in his statement and
everybody knows that, but he's wearing a Mets jersey. So
he was called out there, there's certain cities that are
big enough for multiple teams. By the way, Rich hold on,
I'm sorry to interrupt more than ever with the Soto stuff.

(39:29):
You can't be both. Get out of here. You could
respect the Mets, but you can't be both. What about
why not both corn or flower?

Speaker 4 (39:37):
No?

Speaker 1 (39:37):
Not here, not in this case.

Speaker 3 (39:40):
Girl.

Speaker 1 (39:40):
You could respect it, love players and watch and keep
your eye on or secondary interest like you said, but
you can't be like if it's New York, I love it,
give me, give me the answer, then then put your
thinking cap on. Then it's a fador today by the brue.
Put on your thinking cap and think of what same
date or same city rivalry is just impossible to like both.

(40:05):
I have a few that come to mind, like impossible
like to me. It's like, you can't like Texas and Texas,
A and m You can't like the Rangers and the Islanders.
I think the Clippers and Lakers are in that same conversation.

Speaker 2 (40:18):
You can't be a Raiders and a Niners fan.

Speaker 1 (40:20):
Yeah, there's some now Mets Yankees. It's interesting right because
there's no hatred. I'll give you the caveats to why
the Met Yankees is interesting but the subtle thing stepped
it up. My dad is almost Petina Wish, and I'll explain.
My dad grew up a Yankees fan. Roger Maris was
was his hero. My dad loved Roger Morris. He's like
I was one of the few where everyone else is
like manfold. My dad loved Roger Morris. He was a

(40:42):
Yankees fan. Grew up the someone nineteen sixty one when
we went to college, and the Bronx fort them. When
my dad was a teenager, the Mets came into existence,
there was a you know, there was a lore of
like another team, not a competitor of the Yankees. They're
in the NL mother's family Mets fans, and over the years,

(41:03):
my dad went from Yankees to Mets, which, by the way,
weak decision, you know, think about it. I could have
been a Yankees fan, but we're Mets fans. So if
a team comes into existence, like if you live in
let's say Arizona, you might have been without a team
until the Diamondbacks popped up in the nineties. So if
you're like, well, I watched the Cubs on WGN, and well,

(41:25):
you know, now I sort of like the Cubs and
the diamondback. Maybe he lived through that exception. You're an understanding.
I say, there's an understanding if you're an expansion team sitting.
If you're a Rockies fan and you're like, well, I
like the Rockies, but let's be honest, the Rockies weren't
around until, you know, thirty years ago. So before that,
I was a Yankees fan. That just requires a little
more explanation and some understanding. So I get it. Doesn't

(41:49):
mean I need to agree, but I do understand. So
that's the Rick Patino story. Can you root for both?
I think you could have flower in cornthor Ds. Sometimes
why not? Both does apply, but sometimes it does not.
Like you said, Rangers Islanders, sometimes you just can't. You
gotta pick one, pick one. You're being greedy h eight

(42:13):
seven seven ninety nine on Fox. We do have a
few phone calls. We have other things to get through.

Speaker 5 (42:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (42:17):
The person that also got crap to this, I said
it before the break, are our old pal comedian Sebastian
Man of Scalco. Why would you do that? He throwout
the first pitch, do that throughout the first pitch at
the Cubbies game. He's a Chicago guy. But when he did.
He actually went on social media and he's like, I
know all my old school buddies know that he's a

(42:38):
more of a South Side White Sox fan. But he's like, hey, yeah,
but you know what I'm I'm a Chicago guy. And
he tried to justify, like, but I'm a Chicago guy
and I'm a Chicago guy. That's funny. Look, I don't know.
I think that only applies like rich when are you American?
When do you call yourself American when you're out of
the country, right, So maybe I don't know. Maybe when

(43:01):
you're at a certain level of celebrity and you're in
different states, like you no longer represent a team, you
represent a state. I'm not at that level of success
I represent I'm a Yankees fan. I'm I'm not a
New York guy. I'm not a New Jersey guy. I mean,
I'm just a Yankees fan.

Speaker 6 (43:17):
I consider myself an ambassador here out in LA. I'm
like a novelty, like an ambassador for the state of Iowa.
And I certainly wouldn't ever wear a Cyclones jersey, but
I will. I'm in the no with these cyclones. I
stay cyclones in the northern Iowa Panthers and the Drake Bulldogs.
I like to know what's going on with them, and
I will talk about them, but I'm not rooting for them.

Speaker 1 (43:37):
Now, let's take two quickies and then I want to
talk about what I think could very well be the
end of the world. Let's go, Bob, You're on in Texas.
What a tease that is? Hey, Bob from Kentucky and
Kentucky versus level and basketball.

Speaker 4 (43:52):
Both of which Potato coach.

Speaker 9 (43:54):
That's kind of like a civil war.

Speaker 2 (43:55):
And you can't cheer for both that.

Speaker 1 (43:58):
Like, I don't think it's example. I don't think you
could be like, well, you know what I like. You
can't say you know what I like Yukon. I'm not
not you cut. You can't say I like North Carolina
and absolutely you just can't like to some. You can't say, well,
I looked, I like the Blue Devils, but the Tar
Hills are.

Speaker 5 (44:13):
You No, I can't do it.

Speaker 1 (44:14):
Can't sounds indecisive.

Speaker 3 (44:15):
Ye, Well, none of us grew up hearing. Oh, I'm
a big Celtics fan and a big Lakers fan. I
like one of the other.

Speaker 1 (44:22):
You may have admired Bird and Magic, but for their
play but you you weren't a fan of the Lakers
and Celtics. That just doesn't make sense. All right, trip
wrap this up in Vegas.

Speaker 6 (44:31):
Hey, buddy, good afternoon guy.

Speaker 1 (44:33):
So, uh, it's great to talk.

Speaker 4 (44:36):
So I went to the University of South Carolina. My
sister went there, my family lived there. I don't own
anything orange. We don't mention the word Clemson in my house.

Speaker 2 (44:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (44:46):
Yeah, we have two interns when we were in our
serious record. I don't own anything orange either, but I
has nothing to do with Clemson. What about your hooter shorts?
Oh man, that's right, my hooter shorts that I wear
to bed. I forgot about. That was a good call
and it looks sexy. We had two interns, uh, Danny
j I'd say about a decade ago, James and Jeff.

(45:08):
We had two interns in the same semester.

Speaker 2 (45:10):
Remember when interns were a thing in radio.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
Yeah, before they started demanding money. Four people started sleeping
with all of them. Interns were making more than us.
So they came into their internship one one went to LSU,
one went to Alabama. From the minute they met each other,
they hated each other. Yeah, and the whole semester was
almost like an internal competition, like like, hey, Cavino and

(45:34):
Rich liked I'm better than one represented LSU and what
fun It was very funny to watch them the whole semester,
almost like there was some odd internal like I'm trying
to prove to you guys at my college is better
and oh, you know what it sounds like too. And
again there's an understanding because the Mets came out later
and he probably appreciated him. It sounds like a political answer,

(45:55):
like he's a politician of sorts, like like Juliani's a
Yankees fan and I'm there were times where he would,
you know, support the Mets and people be like, why
are you doing that, Rudy? You know that was because
I want to. That was before the crazy and the
hair diner exactly. Yeah, what's up there, damn yo.

Speaker 9 (46:11):
I was just gonna say, just going back to the
main point of Rick Patino, it's not like that there's
a main competition in New York City for Saint John's.
Like I can understand if you're a Rudy Giuliani and
you're running a campaign or politician or in that case,
you don't want one side to completely leave you and

(46:32):
go to the other side, but there was no other
side for Saint John's basketball.

Speaker 1 (46:35):
Yeah, and if anything, he's sort of gaining support of
everyone in New York, like Heyrick, I'm so New York.
I'm Rick Patino root for Saint John's, Yankees fans, Mets fans,
I love everybody.

Speaker 9 (46:43):
He's Yeah, I just I don't necessarily, I don't necessarily
understand it. I was like the when President Obama just said,
I'm a white Sox fan, would wear his white Sox cap.

Speaker 2 (46:52):
I totally respect that.

Speaker 1 (46:54):
Respect did it? I thought that was refreshing. Didn't he
wear He actually did wear I think a white Sox
hat at a first pitching Wrigley or something like something
along those lines. He did do that, and I respected
the fact that, like, that's the team he rooted for. Us.
Not that serious, It's not that deep as the kiddos say.
Am I mad at Rick Pettin don't know, but you

(47:15):
gotta call him out as they did when he saw
him on the streets. Now, before we get into other nonsense,
Spot's got midweek major and I know that's going to
take some time. We want to give him time to
go over all the hot stories. Big Mike, who runs
his place, who Big Mic sits down with us every day,
And this is a testament to Mike. We love Big Mic.

(47:38):
He brainstorms, we shoot ideas back and forth. It inspires thought.
We love Big Mic, and sometimes he'll drop words of
wisdom and we're like, Mike, I think we just need
to make this a feature because if we have to
hear these things, I think everyone does.

Speaker 2 (47:53):
That's him emailing me right now because he Let's.

Speaker 1 (47:56):
Listen to installment one of Big Mics words of wisdom
on a Wednesday.

Speaker 2 (48:05):
Passing the torture onto you.

Speaker 5 (48:10):
If someone tells you eating less cheese is healthier, they
are one just trying to steal your cheese.

Speaker 1 (48:23):
Never thought about it that way?

Speaker 2 (48:25):
You like my music?

Speaker 1 (48:26):
Never thought about it that way? Wow, Rich, you're the
cheesiest guy, I know. How do you feel about it?
So if someone says eating cheese, eating cheese is bad
for you, they're just after your cheese. Yeah, I think
it's deeper than I don't think it's just about cheese.

Speaker 2 (48:38):
I think it's a metaphor.

Speaker 1 (48:39):
Yeah I do. I think it's a metaphor. Someone tells
you to eat less, it's like it's like when your
wife says that shirt looks good on you, but it
really doesn't. She's just trying to keep you out of
the game. I think that's kind of what he's getting at.
Thank you, big Mic who runs this place. Thank you.
I will lit we got more covene on Rich. We'll
go over all your headlines in the world. There's sports

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and entertainment names right here. Fox Sports.

Speaker 5 (49:11):
Just trying to steal your cheese.

Speaker 1 (49:14):
There's a lot of truth to that, but I don't
know about I think Mike was very proud of that that, Like, man,
he really broke the glass on Alex. Before we get
into midweek Major, I do want to point out one
more thing. Nathaniel Lowe of the Nationals. Nathaniel low his mustache.
Don't even kidding, don't think if is another new segment,

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the weakest mustache of the day. And I'm not hating,
I'm just stating, but he's got like the weakest Clark
Gable pencil stash going on. It's kind of Clark Gable,
but it's also who's that guy, John Waters? John Waters? Yeah,
that na, it's a John Waters pencil stash. You'll see
it in the highlights later. And the Nationals are playing

(49:58):
the dots. But you're okay with a Yankee Austin Wells mustache.
It's better than this dude's. Yeah, for sure, it looks
like a Wolvers. So that beak said, it's a hump
day and it's.

Speaker 12 (50:10):
Time Covino and Rich get you over the middle of
the week where mid.

Speaker 2 (50:16):
Week major major.

Speaker 12 (50:18):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (50:18):
I love that.

Speaker 12 (50:19):
We throw sports and pop culture headlines and topics at
the fellas and it's like the kids.

Speaker 11 (50:25):
Say, that's summit.

Speaker 4 (50:26):
We definitely major.

Speaker 12 (50:28):
Seeing our scoring mid Week major.

Speaker 3 (50:32):
Off, we go really quick. We could give Spotty nine
full minute.

Speaker 1 (50:36):
What am I gonna do with all that?

Speaker 2 (50:37):
You hear the horns, You know you've made it to
the middle of the work week.

Speaker 3 (50:40):
Before we hand things over to the number one and
only host of the segment, we like to roll the
two red love dice in the main studio.

Speaker 1 (50:46):
Oh man, sorry, this is to see I'm thinking about
Mike's I was like, what does he mean by gee?
I roll the dice?

Speaker 2 (50:54):
Yeah, the winner of the role gets first take.

Speaker 1 (50:55):
I rolled ten and Rich rolled a.

Speaker 5 (51:02):
Eight.

Speaker 8 (51:02):
Man.

Speaker 1 (51:03):
You keep losing, Yeah, I'm on a streak man, So.

Speaker 3 (51:06):
Coveno gets to go first, and now, ladies and gentlemen,
the most famous person besides Judy Bloom from Scotch Plains
New Jersey spotty boy.

Speaker 6 (51:13):
All right, since we're talking about mustached men, Actually you
just debuted a new beard. Paul Skeen's you know, has
that new bearded look. Has Libby done by his side,
But his gymnast influencer girlfriend revealed that he almost blew
his chance at dating her, and that's for one simple
reason that he didn't follow her back on social media. Lane,
I know the fact that she had like five million

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followers meant nothing, But in a GQ interview, she talked
about how they knew each other as LSU athletes, but
she was hesitant to pursue him because he didn't throw
the follow back. Skeen says it wasn't intentional. He wasn't
active on social media, was very aware of Done, as
everyone else was at the school. But it's possible that
actually the lack of follow made her more interested. She's like,

(51:56):
why is this kind of following me? What everybody else does?
She said, who is this kiddy? Won't follow me back? Eventually,
Schemes went master her out and I went public with
their relationship midweek or major.

Speaker 1 (52:05):
I'm not hating. I'm just stating again this is uh,
this is a mid story because I just don't get it.
But it's not my job to get it. This guy
has the personality of again I said it yesterday, my
wettest sock possible. But still he pulled her with no follow.
It makes me want to take my follow back. I
followed Libby done. I want it back. Take you back

(52:27):
right now, give a chance you take your follow back.

Speaker 2 (52:30):
Girl.

Speaker 1 (52:30):
You know what, there is a major lesson though to
be learned, and the major lesson to be learned is
like women want you to ignore them. I don't know why,
but that's the truth.

Speaker 5 (52:40):
You explain it.

Speaker 1 (52:41):
This is mid However, however, it worked to his advantage
not being a fanboy. That's what I'm saying. You know,
you've seen you've heard many of influencer hottie say, oh
they follow me, they I have fans. You don't have
fans people. Your people are fans of your ass. So
I I think, to be honest, gymnast in defense, she's different, ye,

(53:03):
But I'm saying there are people that are just hot
on social media, and when they say my fans I'm
like fans of what your boobs so to me. I
think not being a fan by work to his advantage.
And listen, he's busy being a future Hall of Fame
Cy Young Award winner at LSU. Do you think he's
worried about following someone on social media? But then again,
playing hard to get unintentionally seemed to work. Yeah, you

(53:23):
know what, props to him? He played it cool. I
guess can we say can we say the B word?

Speaker 2 (53:28):
Are we allowed to say that?

Speaker 1 (53:29):
Well, I'll stick with that.

Speaker 2 (53:30):
You know what.

Speaker 6 (53:31):
I was gonna save this for later, but I'll stick
with that theme. If you needed a reason to watch
this year's International Boxing Hall of Fame Parade of Champions,
because I know you were going to be glued into that,
I have two big reasons for you. That's because Sidney
Sweeney has been named the official Grand Marshal of the
event that will take place in boxing's hometown of Cannistota,
New York, on Sunday, June eighth, Sweeney most likely taking

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the honor and promotion of her upcoming role as female
boxer icon Christy Martin, who herself served as the Grand
Marshal back in nineteen ninety six and was really thrilled
that Sweeney was announced. This year's class of honorees actually
includes Manny Pachiao, Vinie Pause, Kenny Bayliss, among others.

Speaker 2 (54:08):
Midweek er major.

Speaker 1 (54:10):
I'm a boxing fan, so everything about it I think
is mid no. But there's major names involved, right, Vinnie Pazyanza,
Manny pakiaw These are all Hall of Fame names. And
the fact that Sidney Sweeney's playing Christy Martin, I mean
they really, I mean she was good looking for a boxer.
Sidney Sweeney might be the one most best looking women
in Hollywood. Yeah, the total glamour casting. Actually, some of

(54:32):
the images look really good. Yes, she really dedicated herself
to boxing, just to make it more legit and to
make it more realistic. You got to give Sidney Sweeney credit.
It is a glamour casting. I think it's a It's
a mid story maybe, but still does it. Speedbag joke
in here somewhere that I just can't.

Speaker 6 (54:48):
Find, right, Oh, you mean you bounced those things like
sugar Ray Leonard. I just one of my two big
reasons joke to oh spot, Can you repeat the name
of that town in New York? Was it can of soda.
Canisda Oh I thought I heard you say can of
sodas I want to there's two Kansas giant cans of soda.
Lebron James teaming up with Mattel and the Barbie franchise

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to be the first quote combassador for the massively popular doll.
Lebron will be honored for his influence on quote, culture, style,
and community. The doll that's going to be created will
be incredibly detailed with his signature beard, custom jacket, crossbat,
body bags, sunglasses, Beats, headphones, a gold watch and merged
from his foundation. Also a pair of Nikes with phrases

(55:33):
scribbled on them. He will be wearing a hat unfortunately,
so we don't know if the hairline is going to
be accurate. The dolls will be available for seventy five
dollars in stores and online midweek or major.

Speaker 1 (55:42):
This is major. Think of the Barbie franchise, how legendary
it is you combine the franchise with Lebron again. They
picked him because of his style, his community and something else.
There was like a criteria that he met style, community
and something else. Culture, style and Lebron is, you know,

(56:02):
great ambassador to the game in his community. It's a
huge honor the Barbie franchise, like I said, and it's
a cool doll. He's calling it La Ken as a Ken. Yeah,
but is it like does he still wear those like
nude color briefies that the old Ken used to weary
or is it anatomically correct Listen, I think this is
this is major. I was talking about this earlier in

(56:25):
my Mojo Dojo Casa House. Yeah, he has his own
kent though, he has his own doll. Barbie, like you said,
is a huge brand. Lebron's one of the biggest stars
in the world. I think it's great. I mean, who
does it want action figures? You ask any player, any wrestler,
any actor. When there's an action figure, no matter how
popular you are, that's gotta be a cool. It's funny
because it just coincides with the current trend that's going
on with social media right now, do chat, GPT, everybody's

(56:50):
creating their own action own figure. If you go to
our social media right now, Covino and Rich in our
Instagram story spot put our images through AI and he
created like a Coveno rech action figure set, and everybody's
been doing that, but Lebron has an actual Barbie dop
coming out. It's cool when you could personalize these things.
I think for Easter, I'm gonna surprise my kids and

(57:10):
get you know that you could design a func to
look like someone. I think it's like thirty or forty bucks.
You could personalize one for your kids. I don't know.
I think it's really cool something you were never able
to do when we were kids.

Speaker 2 (57:20):
All right.

Speaker 6 (57:21):
Yankees outfielder Cody Bellinger, I don't know if he saw
this story, says he's officially done with eating chicken wings
after a nasty bout of food poisoning. After the Yanks
lost to the Tigers Monday night in Detroit, Bellinger opted
to chill in his hotel room and watch the NCAA
Men's National Championship. Ordered up some chicken wings from the
the hotel without any saucer rubs. Said they were great,

(57:43):
but woke up at four am sweating and throwing up
for hours. Was ruled out of Tuesday nights game due
to food poisoning. Blaid it on the undercook wings was
back Wednesday. He said that he will not eat chicken
wings for at least five years because even just the
thought of it makes it them sick, hedeker made.

Speaker 1 (57:58):
Yeah, it makes me think of every bozo is like
I'll never touch tequila or gold slager, Like whatever made
him sick, you always associated with that, so you stay
away from it. So I'm waiting for that day that
cookies makes me sick. So I could avoid him for
five years. Nobody not Patrick's moms, just not Patrick's moms.
This is major. I think it's possible to stay away
from a food for a lengthy period of time. I

(58:19):
have two examples. I got so trashed off of tequila
in college, and no joke, I dipped away for a
good ten years until I had a margarite again in
like my mid twenties, late twenties, and I got sick
off of just eating too many sour cream and onion
potato chips as like a preteen like I was eating.
I must have had like three cans of Pringle sour
cream and onion, didn't touch them for a decade, So

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I wouldn't be shocked if Beladru went on a break.

Speaker 6 (58:41):
Can I just chicken wings are too good to give up, though,
even if I got sick off them, like within a year,
I'd be like, I need.

Speaker 2 (58:47):
Eat I love chicken wings.

Speaker 6 (58:48):
It's like, but if your memory, if your memory of
them is like I didn think about sourdough bread.

Speaker 1 (58:52):
I didn't eat it for about fifteen years. Oh man,
all right, well let's go to Dan Bayer. Thank you, spotty.
Midweek Major dB.

Speaker 9 (58:59):
What's somebody in fellas? We got a walk off home
run in San Francisco. Mike Yastremsky just hit a two
run shot a few minutes ago, propelling the Giants over
the Reds eight to six in ten A busy, busy
day in Major League Baseball. Yes, rich day, let's go
to say did.

Speaker 1 (59:16):
You see that adorable clips a right interrupt dv Oftmsky
with like one hundred year old veteran and the guy's like,
I used to love your grandfather. It was the most
touching moment. If you haven't seen this looking up on
X or Instagram or something, it really is. It's like
the oldest old time or And he's thrilled to meet
you Stromsky because he's like your grandpapy. I loved him
so heartwarm.

Speaker 5 (59:37):
That is cool.

Speaker 2 (59:38):
So the other action of Major League Baseball that was
a walk off.

Speaker 1 (59:43):
Variety of the walkoff variety happened in Pittsburgh.

Speaker 10 (59:46):
Joey Barrant knocks in the run and the Pirates can
walk off winners.

Speaker 12 (59:52):
They beat the Cardinals, shoot a one in thirteen in
share this.

Speaker 2 (59:56):
Afternoon, fireworks in the daytime.

Speaker 9 (59:59):
Let's got in fact today, win for the Pirates today
and the Pirates Radio Network.

Speaker 1 (01:00:05):
I know you wanted to talk about wolves. Dire wolves
not just wolves, you know that haven't existed for ten
thousand years. We mentioned this yesterday. I was going, you
could play Game of Thrones music, because dire wolves best
known from Game of Thrones. And I bring that up
because do do do do? A lot of people didn't

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know they were really. Dire wolves are real. They haven't
been around for again. Oh are they related to the timberwolves,
the Minnesota dire wolves, the dire wolves? Oddly enough, scientists
have unextincted.

Speaker 2 (01:00:45):
What is this, badass?

Speaker 1 (01:00:48):
It's the rock out version. This is John Snow at
Open Mic night picture Slash on the mountaintop. So dire
wolves after ten thousand years, they've been unext as they say,
And is that really the term unextincted? What do they
always say? Kids say unlived? Yeah, they say that because
you can't say anything else on social media. But unextincted,

(01:01:15):
Now that sounds like a stupid word. Do you show
that's the word, Like this is a word we made up, unextincted.
I'm looking at George R. R. Martin of Game of Thrones,
the creator is actually one of the few people who
has got to see these dire wolves, these old pups,
up close and personal, and he said it's the greatest
thing he's ever seen in his life. And it sort

(01:01:38):
of makes sense that the guy who in the books,
I know, Big Mike, who runs this place. You know,
the guy words a wisdom. He was saying, Guy, he
was Che's guy. He was saying, if you read the books,
the dire wolves play even a bigger role. Oh yeah,
I'm not doing so I'll take Mike's word for it.
So George R. R. Martin gets to hang and hold
these little dire wolves that have been extinct for a

(01:01:59):
tenth years. And I bring this up because the scientists
who have done this are saying, you know, we're going
to and have the ability to do this with a
wooly mammoth, the dodo bird and all these other extinct animals,
and you got to ask it was just a bird
till Rich's ancestors got on top of it. It's true,
until they started riding one. You know, don't don't talk

(01:02:21):
about my ancestors like that. You know this is very sensitive.
So of all these saber tooth tigers rich to see.
But I'm saying, and by the way, doesn't dismiss with
the ecosystem. My point is if they isolate them in
a zoo, a museum or something. The reality is, haven't
we seen so many movies that warn.

Speaker 5 (01:02:40):
Us of this?

Speaker 1 (01:02:41):
Yeah, isn't it just like ethically wrong. I'm not saying
I don't know. I'm not saying I'm not saying Jurassic Parks.

Speaker 5 (01:02:48):
To go down.

Speaker 1 (01:02:49):
I'm not gonna say Jurassic Park is gonna happen. What
would you want to see? Seriously, I'd want to see
a terodactyl. That would be insane. Did a pterodactyl or
saber tooth type or I'm sorry, a saber tooth tiger,
a t rex of any one of the like you said,
a wooly mammoth. But here's the thing. Am I just
getting way too you know, into movies to think that

(01:03:12):
pop culture has warned us that this doesn't end well.
Or do you think we could in museum and zoo
form bring back creatures from thousands of years ago? A
terrible idea or an awesome mind. We're doing it. Like
we often say that, yeah, rack up art imitates life,
but there's a lot of times where life imitates art,

(01:03:34):
and yeah, we've seen it in Jurassic Park. It could
happen Ai. We saw it with Ai. Absolutely how that's
started starting to change things We've seen it with like
twenty eight Days, viruses and things like that. Keep that
in mind. If the world ends, we want you today, Ribadre.
You maybe are you in a promised land? Good back, guys,