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Dan Beyer and Monse Bolanos in for C&R as they discuss how the networks have chosen to air the NBA Playoffs and which legacies are at stake in this post-season. Dan and Monse wonder out loud what the lasting power is of Star Wars as they celebrate May the 4th. Monse shares her opinion of people who dislike the Savannah Bananas.

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Speaker 3 (00:21):
Hey, hey, welcome in. It's a Monday, Monday Day, Mom Day.
They don't normally do that, but why not. We're here
for the week. The guys are on vacation.

Speaker 4 (00:33):
As I tweeted, mom and dad are on vacation.

Speaker 5 (00:36):
The kids will play And then someone said, who's the mom,
and I was like, obviously.

Speaker 4 (00:40):
Steve Cavino. Obviously Steve Cavino.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
Do you think so? Yes, I think it's I think
it's Rich.

Speaker 4 (00:47):
No, Rich is the dad.

Speaker 5 (00:48):
He's gonna let them have ice cream at midnight. Covino's
the one that's like, you go to bed right now?

Speaker 3 (00:54):
Fair enough, fair enough. Isaac Longgron is here at the
news Deskalo, Isaac.

Speaker 6 (00:59):
Mont Moncey d.

Speaker 5 (01:02):
D.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
Jason Stewart is here as is.

Speaker 6 (01:06):
Hello everybody, Hello.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Iowa, Sam, Hello, how do you spot taking care of
things on the live stream on YouTube.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
Yes, thank you, spotty boy.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
We are set for the Western Conference semis in the
Eastern Conference semifinals. To start, it's the Sixers and Nick's
coming up at eight o'clock Eastern. Then at nine thirty
Eastern time, it's the Timberwolves and San Antonio Spurs playing tonight.

Speaker 4 (01:31):
Manzi, why is there an overlap? Dan? Why does the
NBA hate its fans?

Speaker 3 (01:38):
This is Hey, I don't know. Necessarily, I don't have
an answer. This has to be an NBC sort of deal,
because remember they were the ones that had the regular
season where the East Coast gets the seven o'clock Eastern
Cuzintite and the West Coast gets their own game. You

(02:01):
don't get to see both games except on opening weekend. Yeah,
did you know that? You never got to see on
NBC here on the West Coast the early East Coast game.
The people on the East Coast saw the East Coast game,
but if they wanted to watch the late West Coast game,
they had to jump over to Peacock like we had
to for the early game. So their game, they'd watch
the NBA game, then they'd go into the probably the

(02:22):
nightly news and for us here, it was six o'clock
news into the night game on NBC. So that's what
NBC has given us. It does I would have to
think it's an NBC thing because with those tips ninety
minutes apart, you're saying, well, what about the time zones?
These Western Conference teams are all in the Central time zone.

(02:44):
That's nothing new. I think we've had games in Minnesota,
We've had games in Memphis, Oklahoma City, San Antonio, Dallas, Houston.
None of that is new. They're all in the Central
time zone. But when we go to Wednesday, Monci and
the Knicks and Spurs are hosting their game twos seven
o'clock Eastern time tip on ESPN, nine to thirty Eastern

(03:07):
time tip on ESPN two and a half hours in between,
so it has to be an NBC thing.

Speaker 5 (03:12):
I don't like any of the logical answers you just
gave me.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
Prime Video has it like ESPN? Does they give you the.

Speaker 4 (03:21):
Two and a half hours?

Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yes, correct, NBC Tomorrow night, same thing. They'll be both
on NBC. Calves and Pistons will start at seven Eastern
Lakers and Thunder will start at eight thirty Eastern times.

Speaker 4 (03:32):
So NBC hates. Yes, that's what it is. That makes
no sense. During the regular season, if this was the thing, fine,
but it's the damn playoffs. This is the time.

Speaker 5 (03:44):
Where you should make exceptions to the rules maybe that
you have had throughout the regular.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
This is Manzi. This is a network that has had
a legacy care Everyone was excited about the NBC coming
back to the NBA. It is the reason I believe
that NBA ratings are up and have been up and
have been great numbers because of the NBC factor, because
of them being put on prime time. This is a

(04:11):
legacy network that you don't care about in doing what
they're doing. So you know what I'm gonna do. I'm
just gonna roll with it.

Speaker 4 (04:18):
I just want to watch the games.

Speaker 5 (04:20):
Is that asking for too much for a legacy network
to just give me the opportunity to watch to both
games without having to flip back and forth or leave.

Speaker 4 (04:27):
Can't you even do that because it's on Peacock.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
The first game is on NBC, the second game is
on the NBC Sports Network. Both will be on Peacock.
But to think that you can just go last if
you have direct TV or table, you can't. No, you can't.

Speaker 4 (04:40):
That's what I'm saying. So why why is it so difficult?
I just want to watch both games.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
Take it up with NBC. I will take it up
with a NBC. Maybe maybe Isaac knows, maybe Jason knows.
Do we have reference? What's that? No? No, no, that
was the refe But on why there would be staggered games,
I don't know. Maybe we should have figured this out
on our pre show meeting.

Speaker 4 (05:05):
Maybe. Sorry, that's sorry, Curveball.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
That's all right. I tried to transition to legacy because
you have been going off on legacies changing this past weekend,
because we've had the Rockets ousted on Friday night by
the Lakers, you had the Celtics booted on Saturday by
the seventy six ers, and then yesterday, James Harden and
the Calves pick up a big victory in Game seven
over the Raptors. Legacies at stake in these NBA playoffs.

Speaker 5 (05:32):
Yeah, and some have gone upward and some have fallen
so far off their cliff, and it's been a it's
been an interesting playoffs so far because of that, because
we've only we're still only entering the second round.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
Here's here's the funny thing. Manti has two players. I
know who they are, and I think there's one obvious
person that triggered this topic. I think it's obvious. However,
I know who I'm dealing with. I think it's the
other person that made you want to talk about this topic.

(06:08):
I think the obvious person and has been talked about
and I've seen it on the screen is Kevin Durant. Yes,
but I think you wanted to talk about legacies because
of Rudy Gobert.

Speaker 4 (06:21):
I did.

Speaker 5 (06:21):
I think Rudy Gobert is more of the conversation that
nobody is having and it's mainly mean. Maybe for me
it's because I've never thought Rudy Gobert was worth the
four first round draft picks. I never thought he was
the difference maker that other defensive Player of the.

Speaker 4 (06:40):
Year players are.

Speaker 5 (06:42):
I have thought that he's a liability in big moments
for teams when they need him the most.

Speaker 4 (06:49):
He is a seventh footer, he should be.

Speaker 5 (06:51):
More effective, and I've never thought he was. But this
past series between Minnesota and Denver. Notice I didn't say Timberwolves,
Minnesota and Denver. I thought that Rudy Gobert actually was
a difference maker in how Minnesota won that series.

Speaker 4 (07:11):
And you're not gonna see it in the box score.

Speaker 5 (07:13):
You're just it's just how he was affecting Denver's offense.
He was not a liability. He wasn't taking out of
the game, because sometimes that happens. They would take him
out because he was liability on defense or.

Speaker 4 (07:25):
Just couldn't move. But he actually surprised me in this series.
I was like, man, if this is.

Speaker 5 (07:30):
The Rudy Gobert, okay, okay, Minnesota, you can get further
than I thought you could. Obviously, Anthony Edwards losing Dante
Devincenzo that adds a lot to it as to how
far Minnesota can get. But I was surprised at how
Rudy Gobert handled this series against Denver.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
Do you honestly think we will look at Rudy Gobert's
career differently from what happened over I did two weeks.

Speaker 4 (07:52):
I did, I will, I will.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
So when everybody goes Rudy Gobert was not worth those
four first dround picks, you're gonna say, hey, twenty six
Western Conference first round. What he did against Nikola jokicch
the perennial MVP in the NBA. That's the Rudy Gobert
that I know.

Speaker 4 (08:13):
No, I think it's now.

Speaker 5 (08:14):
I'm just curious what's going to happen next. Now I
want to watch Minnesota. Now I'm more intrigued with Minnesota,
and I think he's the reason I'm more intrigued. Even
with Anthony Edwards being injured, I'm still wondering how far
they're going to get, and I think he's going to
be a factor. So let's see in a couple of
weeks how far Minnesota gets. I think there's a chance
that more people are gonna be talking about Rudy Gobert.

Speaker 3 (08:35):
Your threshold is different than mine because I just don't think.
I don't think that Rudy Gobert is a player to
have a legacy, to be quite honest, to maybe that
word that level yet. But it's because I think it's
of the of the select few, a top like I
don't know, if you know, I don't know if Julius

(08:56):
Randall has a legacy, and I, you know, would consider
him the second best player on Minnesota. I think Anthony
Edwards will, I think Nikola Jokicic will in that series,
maybe Jamal Murray. If we're just looking at, you know,
like the two teams that were playing, but the legacies
that I look at are and the ones that were
affected honestly this weekend, Like I think, just I don't

(09:17):
even think that Kevin Durant's legacy was hurt as much
as people want to talk about it. I think Jason
Tatum and Jaylen Brown's legacy from what happened this past
weekend took a turn because Tatum now being unavailable for
a team in Game seven and Celtics fans are like,
why why is Jason Tatum not available for this team?

(09:38):
I think Jaylen Brown not making the shots set he
could have made down the stretch with a missing shot
after shot in the final five minutes. That's telling me
that for his greatest Boston's regular season was Jalen Brown
was not the man that he maybe wanted to be
for the Celtics when they needed him the most. And
that's when Jason Tatum was out in a game that

(09:59):
you had to win to keep your season alive. So
when I'm looking at legacy, does Jason Tatum miss Game
seven take a little bit of shine off the NBA
title that he won in twenty twenty four. Yeah, yeah,
a little bit for me, and I understand the injury.
You know, rushed back, but when his team needed him,
he wasn't. There is Jaylen Brown that guy now with

(10:20):
the legacy, Well, Jalen Brown seemed to be the guy
who was in the MVP conversation throughout the year because
of the absence of Jason Tatum when they needed him
the most. He couldn't hit the shots that he needed
to and they put him unfortunately on Joel Embiid at
times and couldn't stop him there. It's not his fault.
I think it's more of a Missoula thing, something you
pointed out earlier today. But those are the legacies that

(10:41):
I look at, Like Rudy Gobert doesn't have a ring
yet to really even be put in the conversation. But
when I'm looking at legacies, Durance not even my first
go to this past week, and it's Tatum and Brown.

Speaker 5 (10:53):
The fact that Rudy I am with you on maybe
the word legacy not being exactly what I'm trying to
say with Rudy Gobert, because you're right, but isn't it
crazy to say that a man who has one for
Defensive Player of the Year awards, has no legacy, Like,
isn't that crazy?

Speaker 3 (11:11):
Yeah, I think that is his I guess if if
we're having the conversation like there's just no way that
like a Lebron legacy and Rudy Gobert legacy mean the
same thing. And of course Rudy Gobert is who he is,
I guess is my point. He's a four time Defensive
Player of the Year. But I don't think that we

(11:31):
are going to change at least it didn't for me
and it did for you on how I look at
Rudy Gobert as a whole. I think it's a good series.
I think it's a series that you probably should have
had or you would expect him to have. But I
don't think that it's going to change anything on how
we look at Rudy Gobert moving forward, because I just
think legacy is really with the top dogs like this

(11:54):
Houston fallout like Durant. Yeah, it affects it for a
lot of different reasons on and off the court. I
think that's a part of the legacy that's a chapter
in a book. When you look at Kevin Durant's career
you're gonna say, oh, chapter twenty twenty six was awful. Yeah,
I had a bunch of burner accounts, and then you
know it was hurt when my team needed me the
most and I wasn't there.

Speaker 5 (12:16):
Kevin Durant, what has happened to Kevin Durant needs to
be studied because he's by himself threw himself off the cliff.
Nobody else, He by himself has ruined his own legacy.
No nobody should want Kevin Durant. Like, if we're discussing, oh,
where should Vin Durant go a team that doesn't think
they can make it, Send him to the Wizards. Send
everybody there. Knowing my luck, he's gonna be a Clipper.

(12:37):
That's how all the cookie cripples.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
You don't think that we're gonna look at Kevin Durant
as maybe being the best basketball player in the game
like in the late twenty teams. Do you think that
like this, something like this would change like it did
for me with Jason Tatum in twenty twenty four.

Speaker 5 (12:55):
What Kevin Durant has done alone in this year from
the burner situation, from you playing how many games seventy
eight and then you bumped your knee and then you
just decided to no longer play in the series.

Speaker 4 (13:08):
That makes no sense to me.

Speaker 5 (13:10):
He Unfortunately, I think in a couple of years, like
right now, it's like, to me, Kevin dura is a
walking bucket.

Speaker 4 (13:16):
That guy will score whatever he freaking feels like it.

Speaker 5 (13:20):
But everything else that comes with it is so bad
that I think years from now people will be like, oh, yeah,
I remember how good Kevin Durant was. Man, what an
idiot to just throw away throw it all away? And
I'm just talking about this year. We could go into
what has happened in his career, hopping from team to
team and there's always something wrong with the team. You

(13:40):
have to start feeling like maybe he's the He's what's
wrong with the team, you know what I'm saying, Like,
it's not just it's just this year to add to
all of the already bad parts of Kd's career, because
it's not one thing.

Speaker 4 (13:54):
There's so many things we could talk about.

Speaker 5 (13:56):
I'm just so surprised that this year how he literally
threw himself by himself over that cliff with Ridy Gobert. Yeah,
maybe legacy is not the word, but that's crazy. A
four time MVP MVP, a four time Defensive Player of
the Year has no legacy.

Speaker 4 (14:08):
You're one hundred percent right. I just now I'm looking
at him, looking at him differently, and I want to
see what.

Speaker 5 (14:14):
Minnesota does, and in Minnesota does pull this off with
Anthony Edwards being half there with his knees, No Dante Devincenzo.

Speaker 4 (14:22):
We'll see what Julius Randall does. We'll see how this
team gets comes together.

Speaker 5 (14:27):
But I am looking at Rudy Gobert as possibly the
difference maker for Minnesota and how they end this year.

Speaker 3 (14:33):
I think that's I think that's an interesting angle to
it because I look at I look at like Andre
Iguodala who had a nice career in the NBA and
then goes to Golden State, ends up winning finals MVP
amongst the star players, and now Andre Guadala went up

(14:54):
like four levels. Like if Minnesota goes on a run
and Rudy Gobert continues to play well and is at
least familiar with Victor women Yama, I mean both both
being Frenchmen. If he has a good series here, maybe
that's the sort of role it takes. Maybe it maybe
it evolves more into what you're saying. Maybe we're looking
back at that trade with less of a crooked eye

(15:16):
and saying four first rounders for for Rudy Gobert. I
think all of that. I will give you that in
that portion. I just don't think that the last two
weeks changed anything. But could there be a path? Yeah,
there could be. There could be that sort of route
for him, considering Minnesota is also shorthanded and you need
players to step up.

Speaker 5 (15:36):
I like the way you put that, because I agree
legacy is not the word. But maybe we're cracking that
door open.

Speaker 3 (15:41):
What about Embiid's legacy? How much has it changed just
in this one series.

Speaker 4 (15:46):
I think we're waiting. You can't. We can't.

Speaker 5 (15:49):
We can't say everything's changed just because they beat the
Celtics in a game seven after you know.

Speaker 4 (15:53):
His appendec appendectomy. Did I say that right? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (15:56):
That one we I don't want to I don't want
to jump the gun. I don't want to jump the
shark and say like everything has changed for Joel Embiid.

Speaker 4 (16:03):
But I do think all of us are kind of.

Speaker 5 (16:04):
Like, okay, Joelle, all right, the process took a little long,
but it seems like we were here.

Speaker 3 (16:10):
We talked earlier today about Joel Embiid being this now
player that you can root for, But I'm also not
naive to think that there's no way Joel Embiid makes
it from now until mid June if the Sixers end
up going on that run. And it's a crappy thing
to say, I get it, but the reality of the

(16:32):
situation is his body has been so fragile. In fact,
we think he's hurt now because of what happened with Maxi,
because of the hip being worked on. It is zero
guarantee that Joel Embiid is going to be available for
this team in every game that they play the rest
of the way. They got through a Boston team that
we hated the start of their their starting lineup. We

(16:55):
didn't like some of the decisions that Joe Missoula made,
and I just talked about the absence of Tatum in
in Jaylen Brown's absence in making shots in the last
five minutes. So while the Sixers advanced and came back
from that three to one deficit and they seem like
a completely different team with a healthy Joel Embiid, it
still is a seven game series that they needed to
win Game seven down to the last minute. Ned Foston

(17:16):
go one of twelve from the floor in the final
five minutes, So they're not perfect, but they can. It
could develop a story, and I think that Embiid, legacy wise,
would have the most to game. And I joked yesterday
and you were here when I said, I can't imagine
a world where we have James Harden and Joel Embiid
playing in the Eastern Conference finals because that means somebody's

(17:38):
going to the NBA Finals. That's right, and someone's legacy
would be changed, taking nothing away from the Pistons and Knicks,
But that's where we are in a bracket, and it
could actually happen. Is it going to happen? Probably not likely,
just like it's not likely to think Joel Embid stays
healthy over these six weeks. But now his legacy has
taken a turn because I feel he's someone you can
root for.

Speaker 4 (17:56):
Absolutely.

Speaker 5 (17:57):
The most games that he's played in his career in
the regular season was sixty eight games a couple of
years ago. So he played thirty eight during the regular season.
What's the most he could possibly play right now? What
about twenty eight?

Speaker 4 (18:07):
Not anymore? Because the first round.

Speaker 5 (18:09):
He missed it twenty one games left, twenty one games left,
so he would reach about that number, so like.

Speaker 4 (18:14):
He could maybe make it, he could get through it. Impossible,
IMMO possible, he says.

Speaker 3 (18:20):
I don't wish injury on anyone. I just don't.

Speaker 4 (18:22):
You're just being realistic.

Speaker 3 (18:23):
These games are two and three times the intensity that
you play in the regular season, so I also think
that you're then two to three times maybe more prone
to something happening for someone who's always injured. I just
I it's it may be unfair, but I just think
that that's the reality that we live in, that they're
going to be in a situation where if they continue
to advance, that Joel Embiid's not going to be there.

Speaker 5 (18:45):
And he doesn't And this is I like this about him.
He doesn't seem to want to protect himself, you know
what I mean. Like he'll dive for the ball knowing
he just crashed with somebody. There was a in this game,
Game seven against the Celtics. Late in the game, they're
pulling away from the celf and there's kind of like
a loose ball that he dives for, and I was like.

Speaker 4 (19:02):
What are you doing? You didn't need to dive for that.
You gotta protect yourself.

Speaker 5 (19:07):
So you make a point that he may because.

Speaker 4 (19:11):
Because he goes for it, he goes for it, he
doesn't protect himself.

Speaker 3 (19:13):
He broke eighteen bones on that dive. No, just kidding,
mis kidding, but he's stealing on the hip issue and
he had the knee issue and Maxie fell into him
in Game seven. So again something to watch. But if
there is a legacy that changed, I think it's Tatum
and Brown and I think em beads can turn. Durance
is whatever, And you're right, like he's the constant to
all of the drama.

Speaker 4 (19:31):
The constant everywhere he goes.

Speaker 5 (19:33):
If he would have just stayed with the Warriors, it
probably would have won five more rings.

Speaker 4 (19:37):
But instead he was offended that people said it was
STEP's team. It is STEP's team.

Speaker 3 (19:41):
Manzi's gonna be chanting Rudy Gobert tonight as.

Speaker 4 (19:43):
They all to take on the San Antonio Spurs.

Speaker 3 (19:45):
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Speaker 3 (20:03):
Oh, welcome in. It is a Monday hanging out for
the vacationing Cavino and Rich and Danny g Welcome in.
It's not only Mancia and myself, Iowa Sam is here,
Jason Stewart, Isaac gloh and Cron kind of putting a
bow on the first hour. Weird from the Boss. We
did in a secret text saying NonStop fun music never stopped.

(20:27):
Everybody left the stadium having a great time. When the
Savannah Bananas recently were in Southern California down in Anaheim,
you saw him in San Diego and had the same
exact experience.

Speaker 5 (20:37):
Yeah, And somebody in our chat asked that they've never
seen it. So do they do the same routines every game?
And I don't think so. Again, I saw them in
San Diego, So Trevor Hoffman came out, I.

Speaker 4 (20:47):
Don't think that's happening every time they go somewhere.

Speaker 5 (20:49):
Else, you know what I'm saying, Like, I think it
pertains to maybe where they're doing it.

Speaker 3 (20:53):
Yeah, that would be weird if you came out in Arizona.

Speaker 5 (20:55):
You get exactly Tever Hoffman here exactly. So I don't
think it's the same stuff every single time. Maybe there's
a few things that are let's say, routine skits. As
our caller so perfectly put, I really did not think
about the execution of this scripted game, right, like when

(21:17):
he said, he's like, you know what hard is to
throw this ball?

Speaker 4 (21:19):
Because they're pitching, they're really pitching. I would say these
guys probably played maybe.

Speaker 5 (21:23):
In college that they're really pitching, that you really do
have to hit a ball in order to have that
guy be able to do the backflip. Like, I never
thought about the scripted aspect because they make it look
so easy and so flawless.

Speaker 3 (21:35):
To Jason's point about the Globetrotters, they're sometimes gonna missshots,
but some of what they do and the points that
you remember are when you actually make the shots. Now,
you don't want anybody going one for nine from half
court Celtic style, but they're zero for nine from three
point range. But still it's the highlights of it. But
you're right there, there is a variable that you can't

(21:59):
att four that you need to have a part of
it to make it work.

Speaker 5 (22:02):
Yeah, I never thought about that, so I was just
I appreciate it even more than I did twenty.

Speaker 3 (22:06):
Minutes Mansy mentioned the chat. It's on our YouTube channel.
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(22:27):
vacation plans. They'll tell you when they come back from
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you all week long here on Fox Sports.

Speaker 8 (22:36):
You.

Speaker 3 (22:36):
We are efforting some special guests as well. We'll just
leave it at that. Yes, it could completely fall through
and we don't want to ruin anything, but we could
be having a special guest at some point this week.
It won't be Darth Vader, and it won't be Luke Skywalker,
but it is make some call. It is May the fourth,
and this day means more to some than other. I

(23:00):
would be the others. I don't know if you are
the sum or the others. And I'm not trying to
be the Savannah Bananas hater. I at one point did
love Star Wars, but not to the point where I
would want to dress up today like a character from
one of the movies.

Speaker 4 (23:16):
Oh, absolutely not. I could wear a T shirt like Sam.
You know, I'd wear the one he was wearing.

Speaker 3 (23:21):
It's a it's a hybrid Caitlin Clark Star Wars shirt.

Speaker 4 (23:25):
Yeah, no, I like that. I would not dress up
in the get up from head to toe.

Speaker 5 (23:29):
But you know, like if I, let's hypothetically say you
and I were off and like, you know, maybe I
go to.

Speaker 4 (23:34):
Disneyland, I'd put on a Star Wars shirt. Why not?
I could. I could take part in the festivity.

Speaker 3 (23:38):
You could blend into the environment. And you've seen the movies.

Speaker 5 (23:44):
So I don't remember ever seeing like the original, you know,
like the three four, five, one, two three whatever.

Speaker 3 (23:50):
Star Wars Empire strikes Back.

Speaker 4 (23:52):
No, I don't remember.

Speaker 5 (23:53):
Maybe episode one is the one I remember with that
I made, But I don't remember any of those anything
that came out since two thousand twelve.

Speaker 4 (24:00):
I have seen. I've seen them in theaters, whether with friends,
or the boyfriend or whatever. And let me tell you,
I've taken some of my best naps during some of
these Star Wars movies.

Speaker 3 (24:08):
Right, that's war. This is not you sound like a
Savannah Banana hanter.

Speaker 9 (24:14):
No.

Speaker 5 (24:15):
And then I wake up in the middle of somebody
fighting a galaxy fighting whatever, and I was like, oh great,
it's only like fifty twenty minutes, but some of my
best naps. Come.

Speaker 3 (24:21):
Do we have any May fourth celebrators on our staff?
Jason Stewart, Iowa, Sam Isaac Lowell, Isaac's given me a
tongue sticking out. No hater like he truly is he
He's a nice, gentle guy. He is a he is
a hater. Hey, Isaac, Isaac hate through you.

Speaker 4 (24:42):
I'm not gonna lie. I thought Isaac would be into
Star Wars.

Speaker 6 (24:46):
It's not supposed to me.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
You think I'm like a closet nerd geek, don't you.

Speaker 4 (24:51):
Closet is out in the open. To be honest with.

Speaker 3 (24:53):
Shit, like, can we give Former Fox Sports Radio employee
John Ramos on the phone, Jason, I don't know if
there's a way, Like if I don't if we have
a text sent out to him. I knew that we
had some Star Wars lovers on staff here at Fox
Sports Radio. I even efforted one during the break. They
said they love Star Wars, just not enough to go
on the air because I have I have important questions

(25:15):
and Isaac obviously can't answer them. I don't know if
Jason and Sam can. I did enjoy Star Wars. When
I was a kid, I watched the first Star Wars.
I watched Empire Strikes Back. I watched Return of the Jedi.
I saw all three of them. I've told you guys.
I had the figurines. I had the action figures. I

(25:36):
had C three PO, I had Art two D two.
I had Han Solo, Luke Skywalker. I had Luke Skywalker
under Russ. I don't know if you know what under
Russ are, but their little kids, they're just basically T
shirt and underwear that would make you look like Luke Skywalker.
They had Superman, the whole deal. I had it. It
was orange. I remembers orange of blue and it was so.

(25:58):
I had the Darth Vader carrying case for my figurines.
That was when I was six. I ended up out
growing it and it was not an interest in me.
I was more interested into the toys, I think than
the actual movie. So what I am curious about? If
anybody can answer eight seven seven nine nine on Fox,
it's eight seven seven nine on six six three sixty nine.

(26:20):
You could do it on our YouTube chat. You can
reach out to Manzi at Monzi Blanios on Xer on Instagram.
You can find me at dan Byer on Fox. What
is it that kept you hooked? Because at six and
seven years old, Manzi, I didn't care about the storylines.
I didn't understand the Han solo, Princess Leah in that
whole deal. The thing that I remembered most from the

(26:40):
movie was when Darth Vader's helmet came off, and I
remember Job of the Hut, and I remember like that
in Return of the Jedi, in that being a big
marketing campaign to think like Pizza Hut and other places.
Those are the things that I remember. Storyline wise, none
of it resonated to me, because again I was six
and seven years old. So I I just want to

(27:00):
know why you would still be as wrapped up into it?
Is that fair enough?

Speaker 4 (27:08):
Yes? I had someone not wrapped into it? Can I
give guesses?

Speaker 3 (27:11):
Y'll take a guess.

Speaker 4 (27:13):
Princess lamb a gold bikini that kept you going.

Speaker 5 (27:17):
And I think Darth Vader as a villain is really liked.
I I think that's what kept people going.

Speaker 3 (27:29):
I understand trying to connect to your childhood. Like I
think the NFL in nineteen eighty nine was probably the
best the NFL could be because I was twelve, right, like,
that's when everything is great and you still didn't know
everything in the world. And I look back at the
NFL in the eighties and I look at the players,
and I look at the teams, and I think that
that's great. And I look back at those times even

(27:50):
nowadays in the NFL, I'm like, God, it just wasn't
wasn't like it was. It was so organic and true
and pure yea. And that may be a reason why.
I don't know if that that is the reason why.
I don't know if people are still trying to latch
you into their childhood or if it is The storyline
was so good and these characters were so appealing. But
to have the day take me taken over by the

(28:13):
movie just because essentially of a line right that falls
well with a date is crazy to me. And it's
a day for everyone to celebrate a movie and gosh,
I don't even know an era. I don't know a
better way to put it, but that has affected so many.

Speaker 4 (28:33):
People love it like live and breathe it. It's crazy, Jason.

Speaker 10 (28:37):
Stewart, So I have almost the exact same experience that
you have had with it, except for I'm much older
than you. So I was able to see Star Wars
in the theaters when I came out in seventy seven,
and I remember that, and then I remember the long
lines for Empire Strikes Back and just how much of
a phenomenon it was. So it is a nostalgia play

(28:59):
for me, and I think of Star Wars. It's a
positive thing in my childhood, and I tap into that.
And that's why everyone was such a fan of what
was that Episode seven? Because the plot and the storytelling
gets kind of derivative, and it reminded everybody the original
Star Wars after George Lucas ruined the second trilogy. I

(29:19):
am not a massive fan of Star Wars to where
I know all the characters and stuff, but I do
think I could tap into people that do care about it,
and it does go along those lines. The first three
released were the greatest movies of all time according to
certain people. George Lucas ruined the next three, and then
the next three becomes this thing where Disney gets involved

(29:41):
and you have a much more polarizing reaction to it.
But I think the common thread throughout is that it
has become and remains very relevant for negative and positive reasons.
It is a part of our society, it's a part
of the lexicon. It remains so, and it's going to
continue to that way with all these offshoots. I think
there's another one being released in two weeks here, But

(30:05):
that's kind of like my read on this entire situation.
But it looks like we might have a call, so.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
I can I and I appreciate something that you had
as a kid that you now enjoy as an adult,
and that's still being a part of your life, just
like we talked about with football. I don't know if
it's the same exact thing, but I understand that. I
also would think it's probably a comforting thing to know
that that something is still ongoing and maybe have the

(30:32):
same the same energy for it. But for whatever reason,
I was just again, I was I saw the movies,
but and I had the figurines and and my Darth
Vader carrying case was full. Manci I had tons of them,
it just didn't carry with me. And to Jason's point,
like Jason's a couple of years older, it may have

(30:52):
been the point that those three year run of movies
happened and then there was nothing more. And I wasn't
old enough to maybe appreciate or to gravitate to the
movies themselves. But I just think that there are a
lot of people like me in their late forties that
still absolutely love Star Wars and and I'm curious on

(31:13):
why that is. Do we have a call, Jason? Oh sorry,
I just I wasn't sure. It's a crazy day, and
it's one that so many people end up looking forward
to and celebrating and having a fun time with.

Speaker 10 (31:28):
Now, if we were to put on someone like our
friend John Ramos or a couple guys in the building
that I know are big Star Wars fans, Like when
you start hearing the details about like maybe plot lines
that aren't in the movie but led up to this,
and then they they know knowledge of characters and stuff,
then you really start losing my respect. Then you start

(31:48):
getting into that nerdy, nerdy area that's really hard to
listen to. I know we have people in the building
that feel this way. Maybe Elijah, who just walked into
the studio right now is one of those, as he
has a T shirt that says what best dad in
the Galaxy with the Darth Vader penning. Maybe Elijah will
want to lean his expertise.

Speaker 3 (32:11):
I did you even care about it when you were
a kid at all?

Speaker 2 (32:16):
I didn't see it until my wife dragged me to
see it when we're grown ups. I will make one point.
I think one of the reasons it resounds so strongly
through the years with people of maybe middle to older
age generations. When it came out, the special effects were
way beyond anything that anybody had ever seen before in

(32:41):
a movie from a special effects standpoint, and.

Speaker 4 (32:44):
To Adams like the score. I feel like also like
it lives on.

Speaker 5 (32:48):
You put this on and everybody all of a sudden
is like, oh, I feel like I can conquer anything.

Speaker 6 (32:53):
Sure?

Speaker 3 (32:54):
I like that?

Speaker 11 (32:54):
Yeah, Yeah, absolutely plays a role. Iowa Sam Huge Star Wars.
When I was a kid, still am original three. I
learned how to play this song on piano and I
played it so many times my Dad almost went crazy.

Speaker 1 (33:08):
He was like he would yell at me. He's like,
no more Star Wars in the house, play it when
I'm not here. But I'll be honest, I think during
the the what late nineties, early two thousands, like The
Phantom Menace, the Clone Wars, and then I forgot the
third one. But I think when I got through the
Clone Wars, I was like, you know when they do
all these special effects and cgi. I haven't seen any

(33:28):
of the new ones and I don't really care to.
I just for when I was a kid, it was
it was Indiana Jones Trilogy, Star Wars, and it was
Back to the Future. Those were my nine favorite movies,
three freight favorite trilogies, and then as I've gotten older,
I just haven't kept up with it.

Speaker 3 (33:46):
I think that that gap between when they made the
fourth version of the movie is very key to all
of this, because I think you had to be connected
to the first one. I don't know this mansion into
Mandalorian and Baby Yoda and all that stuff. I think
it's bringing in new people to it, but at that

(34:08):
point of doubt, I think when there's a new movie
coming out after the first three, you either go one
of two ways, because maybe you weren't dealing with like
it just wasn't a part of your life, so you
make that decision. For me, it left So I wasn't
living and breathing Star Wars. I wasn't all about the
Stormtrooper's outfit. It wasn't it wasn't any of that. Heck,

(34:29):
when the Friends episode in the Princess Leiah Fantasy, right
like that was made before the next version of movies
were rolled out. So that makes it in a popular
sitcom and tells you that there are people that are
still loving Star Wars to this day for what you said.
Maybe they just love Princess Lea or whatever the case is.

(34:51):
But I think that there are people like me who
separated themselves from their childhood and playing with the figurines
and everything, and when it came came back, they were
just past that. And there are people who had the
decision to make, like do I jump back in or
do I just continue to go the other way? So
I think a lot of people are in the world
or out of the world for a variety of different reasons,

(35:13):
with many of them starting in the same place that
they enjoyed the first three and then you have all
these different tentacles going everywhere. We do have calls, Jason.

Speaker 6 (35:21):
We do. We have a Kip in West Virginia.

Speaker 3 (35:25):
Kipper, Welcome to Cavino and Rich on Fox Sports Radio. Hey,
what's your thoughts on Star Wars in May the fourth?

Speaker 12 (35:34):
Well? May the fourth doesn't have any relevance for me,
But you're all missing the point as the first three
Star Wars were before social media, so you had to
sit and anticipate, wonder, and we have anticipation for the
next ones come out.

Speaker 3 (35:52):
I will say this, I don't think that the Star
Wars this would be episode one, right, that came out
in nineteen ninety nine. Phantom Menace episode one is not
the fourth one, right, correct?

Speaker 4 (36:06):
Yes, yes, you're on the same page. Yes, sorry, yes, correct.

Speaker 3 (36:09):
That was in nineteen ninety nine when we didn't have
any social media.

Speaker 4 (36:12):
That sounds right.

Speaker 3 (36:12):
Yeah, So I don't think it's just social media. I
think social media helps, but I don't think that's a
reason on why it's connected, because that movie and other
movies were out before we had Twitter or Facebook. Maybe
my Space was hot on the trail. Who else do
we have.

Speaker 6 (36:29):
Louie and Benton City Louie Louis.

Speaker 3 (36:32):
Welcome to the Comuno and Rich give us your Star
Wars star are y'all great?

Speaker 8 (36:36):
I graduated in ninety one and I have a close
friend that was my classmate, and he is the most
total Star Wars nerd I've ever seen in my entire life.
He has a bookshelf that goes over in Entertainment center,
has every character from every movie, X Wing Fighter, Tie Fighter,

(36:57):
Best Star. He's got it all. Myself, I just kind
of am a fan of the very first three because
that was kind of like my age when I was
growing up, and I've always enjoyed those.

Speaker 9 (37:08):
But man, when I go over to his house and
I see him and go.

Speaker 8 (37:11):
Up into that room and just totally takes me back
to my childhood, and it's kind of like a little, uh,
little memorabilia reset.

Speaker 3 (37:19):
That makes sense. It hits a spot, yes, yes, it does,
just like me seeing the Atlanta Falcons red helmet. Yes
like it like it takes me back to a spot
and I can understand why you're back in at that point. Yeah,
for me, it didn't happen like it was and I
just can only use it from my experience. But seeing
like the figurines. If I saw like something that I

(37:40):
that I forgot that I had and then it was like,
oh I did have that, maybe it would like yeah,
and I didn't keep any in the packages like I
was chewing on you know, c three pos feet you know,
so like they're because they were like of that plastic
that was not like.

Speaker 4 (37:56):
That is killing you.

Speaker 3 (37:57):
Yeah, it's like a pen cap, right like that. That's
that's Some of my Star Wars men were like, so
that's you know, but it's just never translated, all right.
Elijah Sabanda, head of all video, social media, everything here
at Fox Sports Radio, Star Wars Fan at least, at
least just kill us in on your love of Star
Wars and why there are so many like you.

Speaker 13 (38:19):
Oh my goodness. It's it's like it's a love affair.
But it's also incredibly complicated, and I think the complication
came with the more recent movies. I just think that
it divided everyone, including the recent series. It provided everyone,
but I think it's everything that built to that point,
from those first three episodes, the next three episodes, the

(38:42):
cartoon series, the old expanded universe stuff, and then there
are there are attempts to get rid of it. There
attempts to preserve some of it. It causes so much debate,
but I think it's just there's almost something for everyone.
But there's also a lot of device in this in
that same community. So what fans a frustrating thing.

Speaker 3 (38:59):
About whom Menace comes out in nineteen ninety nine, like
are you waiting years for this? Like? Are you just
can't wait for that movie to come out? I mean,
I'm pretty darn young at that point. Okay, I don't
want to age. Yeah, sorry, but but uh yeah.

Speaker 13 (39:13):
I think I was one of those that was kind
of when when they did the real especially when they
did some of the re releases of some of the
older films, I was definitely out for that. So I
was a gigantic fan of those.

Speaker 3 (39:21):
It is interesting I we related to sports like I
feel like they're Seahawks fans who joined after Pete.

Speaker 4 (39:27):
Carroll and you are like, you're not welcome here?

Speaker 3 (39:29):
Correct? Correct? You have no idea what it was like
Stan Gelbaugh, Yeah, and Kelly Stauffer as you're starting quarterback, Iowa, Sam.

Speaker 1 (39:38):
I think for me, since I haven't seen the newer ones,
the Star Wars original trilogy just sort of sits in
my you know, uh, nostalgic toy chest like and it
never is, but it's never It's like it can never
be corrupted or brought down in quality, like it'll always
be there for It'll always be there for me. And
I don't think I will see the new ones because yes,
like what Elijah said, it divided peeple and there. When

(40:01):
I saw The Phantom Menace, I was thirteen. This was
what ninety nine like we said, and I was so
excited for it, like it was when I found out
they were making a new Star Wars movie. It was
like all summer or whatever it was released, The anticipation
was out of control. And then I remember coming away
from it like I like that, but it definitely did
not touch on the nerve or or you know, make

(40:22):
me feel the same way as the original three did.
And then when I saw like the second and the
third one that came out after that, I was just like,
you know what, I'm kind of losing this. I'm kind
of losing it the original three for me? Or do
they stand on their own?

Speaker 3 (40:33):
It's good enough for you, it's good enough for you.
Do we have one more? Call we good?

Speaker 6 (40:36):
Matt Madden PA.

Speaker 3 (40:38):
All right, Matt, Matt, wrap it up for us here
and communto and Rich on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 9 (40:42):
Yeah, I'll try and make it quick any day on
ham US.

Speaker 5 (40:44):
See.

Speaker 9 (40:47):
Yeah, I grew up, you know, much like the other caller.
You know, I graduated in ninety two, got friends, big nerves,
big collectors. There's such an oversaturation now that they're actually
like trying to sell they're collectibles. They told me pretty much,
don't ever watch any of the other anything other than
episodes four, five, and six, because you'll it'll just you know,

(41:10):
it'll lose something for you. But they did recommend one movie,
which is Rogue one, a Star Wars story, which is
actually really good and so I so if anyone wants
to check that out. It's like I think it was
twenty sixteen, and it's like a prequel to a New Hope.
It's kind of how these rebels find the you know,
transmit the plans of the Death Star back and it's

(41:32):
really cool. So if you if you don't want to
watch you know, the remakes and the Lucas, you know,
Disney partnership movies, then at least check out the Rogue
one Star Wars story.

Speaker 3 (41:42):
Well, we appreciate the advice.

Speaker 4 (41:43):
I think rog one was good.

Speaker 5 (41:45):
Actually, yeah I did, because I've mapped during that. I
don't think I napp during that one. That sounds like
the best one I've out of the last ten years.
But it's like something that made me think where Sam
right now? Was Like the first three, the original three,
not the order necessarily are the ones that I stick with.
If you have though that you can't that won't hold
up visually to somebody young.

Speaker 4 (42:04):
It won't hold up.

Speaker 5 (42:05):
I've tried, and I think like you get them to
maybe go back to those by showing them the new ones,
like if if you know what I'm saying, I start
with Rogue one and then go back because just showing
them the original three it looks dated.

Speaker 1 (42:18):
That's the difference of a generation.

Speaker 6 (42:19):
See.

Speaker 1 (42:20):
I love the original three because they did so many
practical effects. They did a lot of puppeteering. There wasn't any.

Speaker 4 (42:25):
Like right for you. But if you're trying to bring
in a new sand, that's not gonna work.

Speaker 1 (42:28):
See, And I'm just I love like the actual models.
They made, the smaller models, and then they'd like it
was physical, it was real. That's why it looked so
real to me as a kid, and then like, as
these movies got released and with newer effects, I was like,
I just Yoda lightsaber battle with that guy and he's
jumping all over the place.

Speaker 3 (42:45):
I'm like, he couldn't do that. Stop it.

Speaker 4 (42:47):
Yeah, that's that's where we that's where we draw the
line with this.

Speaker 3 (42:51):
I thought about rewatching the first three or trying to
watch all of It's never gonna happen. It's it's trust me,
it won't. But I'm like, do I start.

Speaker 4 (42:59):
Run actual WIE four?

Speaker 3 (43:01):
Yes, I've seen then, and then like I didn't know
which way to start.

Speaker 5 (43:04):
I think a real Star Wars fan would tell you
to watch them the order they were released.

Speaker 3 (43:08):
I think that's probably right. But again, it's a dilemma,
and it's a good thing because I'll never watch all
nine or how many ever there are now, but I
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(43:30):
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pop up at the top of your screen. Also right now,
streaming live on YouTube if you would like to see us.
Moncey's wearing black today for a funeral? Is it for
the Celtics funeral?

Speaker 4 (44:21):
Sure?

Speaker 3 (44:22):
The magic Jamal Mosley loses his job today that well, JB.
Bickerstaff gets a contract extension. I don't mean to do
all of Isaac low and Crohn's work. But he's at
the news desk giving us the latest, and then we'll
find out why Moncey Belanos loves the Savannah bananas and
hates those who don't. Isaac take it away, Well.

Speaker 6 (44:42):
I guess she hates me anyway.

Speaker 7 (44:44):
WHOA, that's what we call it.

Speaker 6 (44:46):
That's what we call it tease.

Speaker 3 (44:48):
I don't think that's a tease. I think that's he's
saying he's not a fan of the Savannah.

Speaker 4 (44:53):
He shows violence today coming up.

Speaker 3 (44:56):
I don't know if he's got any highlights on the
Savannah bananas. Clear they sold out. There are one hundred
thousand at Kyle Field in College Station, Texas over the weekend,
even with the left field line being like one hundred
and fifty feet away. To Monty's point, they didn't put
up a big net. Yes, it's good safety wise. You
don't want guys getting kids getting hit by line drives

(45:16):
that would have been a double in left field. But
the point is is one hundred thousand people showed up,
not how high was the fence in left field. And
this is the topic of conversation that has happened on
Cavino and Rich before. And you want to stick up
for those banana tails.

Speaker 5 (45:33):
I don't know if it's my algorithm or what, but
the amount of just visceral hate, not just people saying like, oh,
it's not for me, I don't want to go to
Savanna bananas.

Speaker 4 (45:42):
That's not what I'm talking about.

Speaker 5 (45:43):
Like my algorithm is like showing people like truly hate
what the Savanna bananas are. And I'm having a hard
time understanding.

Speaker 4 (45:51):
You don't have to like it. That's I get that
you don't have to go.

Speaker 5 (45:54):
I understand all that, but why so much hate towards
it to the point where they're just like being that
it dies soon and it's not gonna people love it.
One hundred and two thousand people went to watch this show.

Speaker 3 (46:09):
Are is the hate just men?

Speaker 4 (46:14):
No, it's not.

Speaker 5 (46:16):
In fact, it came across my I think because I
clicked on one.

Speaker 4 (46:20):
But it was a gal that I don't follow, but
a gal.

Speaker 5 (46:22):
With like a following, a young gal, attractive, and she
went to a cannibal.

Speaker 4 (46:27):
No she was not an old bat that made paint
come off the wall.

Speaker 5 (46:30):
No, no, no, she was an attractive young gal that
had like a following, and she went to a Savanna
banana games game and just crushed it, just said it
was the worst thing ever, and everyone joined in.

Speaker 4 (46:43):
They're like, yeah, it's ruining baseball. This isn't baseball, though.

Speaker 5 (46:46):
You're not You're not going to watch this because you
want to watch it. You're like, oh, I can't go
to a Dodger game, so I'll go to Savanna Bana.
So that's not That's not what this is supposed to be.
So I just don't understand how you want to just
talk so negatively upon something that so many people clearly enjoy.
How does it affect your life so badly that you
have to say again, it's not saying that's not for me.

(47:07):
Maybe Isaac can tell me what he meant, because he
definitely indicated that maybe he is the scal that I'm
talking about.

Speaker 6 (47:14):
Many that's my burner account. You exposed me.

Speaker 2 (47:17):
I share it with Kevin Durant and we forgot the password.

Speaker 4 (47:20):
That's what it is.

Speaker 2 (47:21):
No, I'm actually I'm actually one of the people. I
don't hate it by any means, but I just completely
don't get it. I think it's really cool that they're
getting all the success, and I'm surprised in a good
way that it's sustained I don't hate it by any means.
I literally just don't get it. I do not get it,
not in a negative way. So for people like me,

(47:41):
what would you guys say, why? What's its appeal to
so many people? For people who do get it? Because
it's clear a lot of people don't get it, you.

Speaker 3 (47:49):
Are going to be able to answer that question better
than I would because I haven't been there. But I'm
going to say one thing about Isaac because I've told
Caveno and Rich as well that I am not a
fan of the Savannah bananas. I don't hate on them.
I just realized recently, and now there's a term for it,
main character syndrome. It's also easy to just say it's
not for me, it's not meant for me. But there

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are people who just feel that they are the main character,
so they're going to go to the lengths. And it's
easy to hate on something that has become very, very
popular because then you go into a lane that is
less crowded. That is why I think what you're saying
is happening with the people with the hate is they
can't say maybe what Isaac is saying or what I
am saying, is that it's just not it's not for me,

(48:31):
like I wouldn't. I don't find an interest in it.
And I think some people have a difficulty saying.

Speaker 5 (48:36):
That, which is fine, but that's not what this is.
This is just people saying like it's ruining baseball. How
is this ruining the sport that you like so much?
I don't understand that connection to it saying it's not
for you. I get that, I understands a show. It
is to me, I would say this is a show.
It is a two hour baseball show. I never saw

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the Harlem Globe Trot.

Speaker 3 (49:00):
I never.

Speaker 4 (49:00):
I've seen video that, I've never seen them in person.

Speaker 5 (49:02):
This I don't know if it felt like a show,
but the Savanna Bana's is a show.

Speaker 2 (49:06):
Like I have a good analogy, though, Monsey, that's a good.

Speaker 4 (49:09):
Analogy, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (49:10):
But I don't know if that felt like a show
or if it felt more like a exhibition, like this
is a show.

Speaker 3 (49:17):
Yeah, I've never caught on the dude perfect. I've never
That's never been my thing. Like, I just felt everything
was staged. You know, the guys that I was like,
who that shoot? You know, will take a basketball from
the upper deck to the stadium and then they end
up making it like yeah, like that just I never
have understood why that has gained such by the way

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in enormous following and a lot with younger kids as
well in watching that. I have never been to a
Savannah Banana's game, and maybe I should because the last
time that I spoke about this and saying that it's
not for me, our boss texted me and said, now
only did we go the first night? We had so
much fun we ended up going the second night for it.

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So like, there's a point where I don't think people
are leaving the stadium saying that's stunk. It was two
hours of.

Speaker 4 (50:07):
This gal that I came across. That's exactly what she said.

Speaker 3 (50:10):
Yes, I think it's more people not going there and
having their opinions, but I guess to each their own.
If she's walking away from the ballpark feeling that she's
unsatisfied with what she saw, and again.

Speaker 4 (50:22):
It's like, it's not a baseball game.

Speaker 5 (50:23):
So if anybody is purchasing a ticket to go see
a Savannah Banana game and then you walk out of
there upset that you didn't see baseball in its purest form.
Then I don't know why you bought a ticket because
I don't think Savannah Banas are hiding what they're doing.

Speaker 4 (50:36):
They're not telling you it's a baseball game. You know
it's a it's it's a big.

Speaker 5 (50:41):
Party essentially, like there's music playing, there's skits going on
while baseball is going on.

Speaker 4 (50:46):
There's a lot going on. So if it's not for you,
I get it.

Speaker 5 (50:48):
But the hate for it to fail, for people to
stop going, that's like that. And again it might be
my algorithm after I clicked on this this Scal's video,
but it was it.

Speaker 4 (50:58):
Was like a picture of her after the game. She
is just like, it is the worst thing I've ever seen.
It's just ruining baseball. Girl, you sound fun at parties.

Speaker 3 (51:05):
Jason Stewart is our executive producer.

Speaker 6 (51:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (51:08):
I think if your take is that it's running baseball,
then you're just dumb and that you're really just not
that smart. It's not meant for the baseball audience. I
think it's meant, as Dan just said, for kids. I
think we underestimate the market for things that you could
take your kids to for a couple hours, and I
think that's what maybe why Isaac doesn't get it, why

(51:30):
Dan probably didn't get it. I certainly don't get it.
I would not go if I was not bringing a
child to the event. And I will say this too.
You make the Harlem Globe Trotter's analogy. I've been to that,
and it is a tough sit, like just two and
a half hours of them like trying half quarters and
missing them. It's two and a half hours of them

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trying bits that don't quite make it. But I think
the genius of the Savannah Bananas is that it plays
so well on social media that you just think it's
like two and a half hours of that. I'm guessing
it's more like kind of the Harlem Glote prowders, where
you're just kind of sitting until something happens.

Speaker 5 (52:09):
No, no, no, yeah, there's there's nothing dragging about a
Savannah Banana game. In fact, there's a timer whatever the MC,
the host, whatever that guy is. He's like, all right,
it's time for Banana ball, and they literally put a
two hour timer and so the game is going to
end with probably the Savanna Bananas beating the firefighters. But
it's going to end, and there's no there's no downtime.

(52:30):
It keeps going. I saw them at Petco Park and
they brought Trevor Hoffman out to close.

Speaker 6 (52:36):
Out the game with the music and everything.

Speaker 4 (52:38):
With the music and everything, that's how that one ended.
Like that was really fun.

Speaker 5 (52:42):
Derek Huff who was Dancing with the Stars, he came
out and he danced with the Bananas in like a
little skit.

Speaker 4 (52:47):
But it's like, there's no downtime.

Speaker 5 (52:49):
The tickets are way affordable, Like you can't I don't
think you can sell your ticket on a third party,
Like you have to go through their system.

Speaker 4 (52:56):
And they're very affordable.

Speaker 5 (52:58):
It's hard to get tickets, but they seem to be
doing it all the right ways, and like you said,
it probably is for family.

Speaker 4 (53:04):
I went and I had a fun time.

Speaker 5 (53:06):
I was like, man, this is a this is not
I didn't know what I was getting into and I
just thought it was a lot of fun.

Speaker 4 (53:12):
And I don't understand the hate not being into it
is something else.

Speaker 5 (53:16):
Yes, Jason, I can see you not wanting to go
to Savannah Banana game, but I bet you if you
went with Christina, I bet you would walk out of
there and be like, that's better than I thought.

Speaker 6 (53:24):
I don't doubt you. I don't doubt it.

Speaker 3 (53:25):
I wonder if there are guys who are just jealous
because you have just a bunch of twenty something good looking,
fit guys putting on a shell and may feel jealousy.

Speaker 5 (53:33):
Yeah, it's so funny that you say that, because there
was ladies, older ladies that were getting hot and heavy
for these.

Speaker 4 (53:41):
Juggins with Donald Savannah Bananas. I was like, okay, all right, man,
gid it.

Speaker 3 (53:48):
Guys don't like that.

Speaker 6 (53:50):
They don't.

Speaker 3 (53:50):
By the way, I will probably go to a game
within the next five years. You should take my son.

Speaker 4 (53:55):
Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (53:55):
You would check out the experience and at that point
see if my opinion changes. But am I actively going
to go on now and say like, hey, let's go
to Savannah Bananas game. Probably not. The other thing that
would drive me away is one hundred thousand people like
imagine the traffic.

Speaker 4 (54:11):
Oh yeah, you know, like you're dealing with crazy. Yeah,
I know.

Speaker 3 (54:14):
They do it every Saturday at College Station when when
the Yankees take the field. But you know, to just
even that portion for a baseball game, You're like, I
don't know.

Speaker 5 (54:22):
But yeah, no, that doesn't sound appealing. But that's with
any sport like anything. I don't want to go to sofar.

Speaker 3 (54:28):
And it's yeah, and it's only two hours, as you said,
so it's so at least your time away. You may
be in the car for longer, but you're not at
least stuck at the stadium for a long time. Fair enough,
She's Watzi Bolanos. I'm Dan Byer. We are in for
Cavino and Rich Jason Stewart, Iowa, Sam and Isaac Glowing
Cronner here, Sam, did you want to weigh in? Did
you have anything on Savannah Bananas.

Speaker 1 (54:49):
I remember, I want to say, about five or six
years ago, I saw a clip of them. I started
following their Twitter camnt when they add less than one hundred.
I don't know how many I have now. I'm guessing
it's like five hundred thousand to a million, or maybe
I'm wrong. But I started following them they had like
fourteen thousand Twitter followers or like it was.

Speaker 6 (55:05):
It was not a lot.

Speaker 1 (55:06):
And I'm like, these guys are novel I think it's
really hard to make something that original in this day
and age. And I was listening to a little bit
of Arnie Spanier of the Weekend here in Fox Sports Radio.
I think he was with Aaron Torres and he was
talking about how the founder, the creator of the Savannah Bananas,
he had a lot of tweaking at it due to
it and he lost money and he he it took

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a lot of failures to get this thing going and
now it's so successful. And Arnie was just going on
about how that the founder and I'm drawing a blank
on his name, but how he's just like this great guy,
and yes, he wants to keep the ticket prices low. Yeah,
he wants to like he wants to make it.

Speaker 3 (55:41):
Signing everyone experience, like you know, being like, hey, we
we'll sign this. You know, we'll sign to the till
the sun comes up.

Speaker 1 (55:47):
So I'm not a huge I'm not like huge into it.
I'd go to one, I'd experience it. But I think
it's it's novel, it's great for kids and families. I
have no problem with it.

Speaker 4 (55:56):
Sam would out.

Speaker 3 (55:57):
I probably took him.

Speaker 1 (55:59):
I like the guy in the still the pitcher on
the stilts.

Speaker 3 (56:01):
That's cool.

Speaker 1 (56:02):
I mean I think just maybe one and done for me,
But you know, I think I have no problem with it.

Speaker 3 (56:06):
All amazing. We didn't give out the phone numbers, But
we do have a call er. Do we want to
go quickly, Chason? Do we even know who it is?

Speaker 6 (56:12):
David and Illinois?

Speaker 3 (56:13):
David Illinois, all.

Speaker 12 (56:14):
Right, yeah, that afternoon. Yeah. So I'd like to start
by saying this. First of all, you're right, it's absolutely
about the children. It really is. But here's the other thing.
When you take a child to the ballpark, you see
these phenomenal athletes. These guys are professionals, but you see
them at their form to where you know they're not
out messing around like these guys are. I don't think

(56:36):
people quite understand how hard it is to get a
pitch down the middle, to have the batter hit the
ball to center field perfectly for a guy to do
a backflip and catch it. These guys are putting on
a display for these young children about how good it
is to be a professional athlete the way they are,
and you're seeing them in their fun form, just like

(56:57):
the Harlem Globe trotters, not serious in play in baseball.
But that's the biggest thing here. These guys are exceptional athletes,
and these kids get a little bit of a taste
of what it takes to be that good.

Speaker 3 (57:08):
Good job, David. Yeah, great end. She's Monte Blagno. So
I'm Dan Byer. We're in for Cavino and Rich here
on Fox Sports Radio