June 27, 2024 • 57 mins
C&R have fun talking aliens, Ohtani & NBA Draft! Was Dalton Knecht the steal of the draft? How will Edey do for the Griz? The guys dive into fair pay for NFL cheerleaders, after watching the Cowboys cheerleaders show on Netflix. 'OLD-SCHOOL WHEN 50 HITS' pays tribute to O.G. video games! Bronny James goes to the Lakers at pick 55! NBA history.. how will sports fans (& Woj) react? Tons of callers & the crew continue their great memories of video games that were ahead of their time. Plus, the Dodgers bat-boy is the real hero!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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(00:23):
Before we get to the NBA Draft and something you
watched last night that ties into sports. A part of
sports that I love cheerleaders, Oh America's sweetheart? Well doubt ken.
We'll get to that. But I saw a story that's
right up your alley because you're a conspiracy weirdo at times.
Yeah me, way to paint a great picture of your boy,
you know, can me down the guy? But working with
(00:43):
twenty years weirdo, I saw an article out of the
New York Post that is right up your alley. It
said aliens might be living among us disguised as humans.
And why is that so crazy to think? You see
some of the weirdos that work here at Fox Sports. Oh,
mikel runs this place. I see some guy was talking
to themselves, who like, what was that guy doing? How
do you get a job? There is someone here that
(01:04):
does talk to the best.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Didn't you see the classic movie Men in Black? They're
among us that movie, Everything about that movie, it all
came true.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
I'm just saying, imagine it. That's Hollywood's way of preparing
you for the truth. Imagine if everyone that's an elite
level we end up finding out because they're an alien.
What if we found out Otani, Aaron Judge, Taylor Swift,
you name it. Oh, the silly humans think I'm real
(01:32):
them think it. Otani n zips his face at night?
We did it again. What if like mahomes unzips his
face Like, oh, it makes sense now, Aaron Judge alien,
all these guys aliens, Elon Musk alien. I'll forward you
that article for later because I just saw that.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I'm like, oh, I love this, Sam Cassell alien.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Oh I've always thought that Willie McGhee alien. Sam Cassell
alien for sure. So anyway, thank you guys, Thank you
Rich You're right. I did watch a cheerleading documentary that
I will get to. But I did tune into the
NBA draft first. Yeah, you know, which is going on
(02:14):
as we speak, not a draft that will go down
in the history books. Is like whoa excitement, unless, of course,
some of these guys just turned out to be bigger
than we think. But you heard the narrative last night,
which was a lot of these guys could be role players,
bench players. I don't think anyone's changing their franchise with
the first round last night. That was the that was
(02:35):
the thought I got. But Danny g your Laker's got
the shooter you wanted.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yeah, man, that he was a steal connect. He was
you know, a lot like Steven Awits. Yeah, he was
a guy that a lot of people thought would go
in the top ten. A lot of people had him
ranked like eighth, ninth. And so when the Griz took
Edie off the board, who some people had as the
(02:59):
you know, pro player that maybe the Lakers would consider
at seventeen, all of a sudden, Tennessee Shooters, their SEC
scoring leader is there on the board. And you know,
Polinka was salivating.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Oh yeah, And you know what the observations I made were,
You know, my feelings on draft projections and predictions. They're
all horse manure. No one knows until they play. But no,
it's that stuff I use in the shower, rich oh hogwash, Yeah,
that stuff it is but the narrative today is Edie
(03:31):
perhaps a little too early, and your boy connect. You
guys got a shooter. As stephen A said J. J. Reddick,
the Lakers are sick of Laham bricks, Lebron and Ad
kicking it out to guys that are just missing, miss
and missing. So maybe you have the sharp shooter you
need to fit right into your Lakers. But those are
(03:52):
big takeaways. And then the obvious is it was just
good background TV last night. Let's be honest, it was
the calm before tonight's storm of the debates, and it
was just good background. No wayly that juicy, nothing that interesting,
and people are still waiting to see what happens to Bronni.
That's the real story. I feel like I'm putting the
wrong emphasis, but I know I'm not Zacharay, your number
(04:13):
one pick. It's interesting also because we've talked about over
the last decades how global the game has become, and
you know, another Frenchman taking number one, couple French players.
In fact, I was saying to Danny g before the show,
and I don't know. Again, I'm not Doug Gottlieb. I'm
(04:33):
not your superstar basketball analyst. I bring fun, don't. I
don't bring the uh, I don't bring that level of insight.
But how do you compare a guy that played in
France against the guy that played at like Yukon or Kentucky. Like,
to me, it's like you're it's any international player. They
(04:53):
get extra credit because they're beyond their years because they
play with men at a professional level early in their life,
so they're sort of prepared in a different way. And
that's what we're seeing with these younger foreign players. You know,
like da play like men. They're not playing like boys
because they've played with men already a lot of times.
The criticism in the NFL is it's hard to assess
(05:14):
a quarterback that didn't play in a big conference because well,
who did they play against? It is a little interesting
when you're like, hey, this guy played in France, this
guy played here, this guy played in Division one hoops
for Duke, Like, how do you even if they've never
played against the same people in the same league. Isn't
it as risky as any draft pick? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
I think it's completely risky. And the thing that was
not surprising, but still it jars my ears. Actually, the
analysis of Dalton connect one of the reasons that he
fell too old. So it's almost the less, you know, right,
the better the possibility of that lottery ticket being the
(05:54):
Mega millions winner. You're drafting a lot on potential until
you see some of these friends.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
He's twenty four, connects twenty four. They made it sound
like he was seventy four.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Yeah, yeah, right, truly, like it was like that was
something that was against him.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
But he plays in rockports because.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
You want the guy with the possibility of being that
All Star, you want that lottery ticket. And that's what
the NBA draft has become.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Yeah, the NBA draft needs to be all guys wearing
high socks because if you're rocking ankle socks too old, Yeah,
you gotta have that high sock energy, not low sock energy.
You gotta be a younger fella. But somebodyse foreign players
are just far more mature. They play more of a
mature game than today's American That's been the observation in
the past few years.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
In Rich he's not even that at least twenty three.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah, you know what, they they made it seem like
the dude needed to do Jess fro Mentez.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Yeah, when's his birthday. Let's see April nineteen, okay, so
he just turned Yeah, just turned twenty. It's one of
my favorites.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
If you ask somebody how old they are, and they'll
tell you how old they will be, not how old
they actually are.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yeah, as you get older, you go the opposite wall.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Be twenty four in April. I like that.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
No, so you're twenty three? dB I do that too sometimes, Yeah,
all the time. I don't know why he does it,
because you had like me, every time I talk about
my age. As the years pass, I just keep saying
forty ish, I go the other way. I don't you know,
we don't attack it on the years. We interviewed a
comedian named rod Man. Remember Rodman a while back, not
Dennis Rodman, a guy named rod Man, and I was like, yo, man,
(07:24):
how old are you? He goes, what I'm grown. I'm like, no,
but how old are you? He goes. I don't tell
people how old am because then you're trying to judge me.
I just tell them I'm grown. So what's your question?
So you do get to a point where you just
say I'm grown grown, I'm grown, grown grown. Now I
guess all eyes today and of course Donald Trump a
(07:47):
man Joe Biden tonight. But besides the debate tonight, what
I thought you were going to say, though, rich And
I give you a credit for dancing around it. I
thought for sure you were going to give the lazy opinion,
which is true, because I was feeling it that it
was kind of boring. The draft was boring. I'm surprised
you didn't say that, well, but I thought it was.
I guess you know what it is. I praise you
(08:07):
all for focusing on the positives, but I got a
boring vibe out of it. Could have been my mood.
I did go to the gym, I was on the treadmill.
Maybe it was just me, but that's the vibe I got.
My wife's observation was, and again it's not like we're
old timers, but she's like, some of these guys look
like little kids. They really do. I like that they
showed some emotion, that it meant something to these guys.
(08:29):
I saw them fighting back, some emotions, some tears. That
was kind of cool. Did you see how ab was
live treeting? Oh yeah, yeah, he got hot water.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Yeah, basically said.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Drafting some old school gay slang. That is not appreciated
in the twenty twenty four society. Yeah, Antonio Brown somehow
made the headlines last night.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
And besides that, I saw on Twitter some comments of
people saying, this is the first NBA draft class where
I feel like I could beat some of them up.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Yeah. My wife is from the San Antonio area in
New Bromfles, Texas, and the Spurs chose Stefan Castle from Yukon.
My wife's like, how old is he looks like he's sixteen.
He had his you know, he had his cool dreads
under his hat, glasses on. She's like, he looks like
a high school kid. I'm like, not far off, you know, Yeah,
(09:17):
that's not true because high school kids. Ok, at it
look like alpaca boys, that is true. Broccoli heads.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Alex Sarl, the second overall pick, was brought to tears.
But that's because he found out he had to play
for the Wizards.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
And didn't say, is that a real team? Then he said,
I'm France, is that a real team?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
You make me disappear?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
So hey, what'd you say, Jenner? Al pakahead, alpacahead, al
paca boys. Yes, Ala, that's twenty five thousand dollars. Alpa.
Do you know what I mean by you know, high
school kid? Every high school kid has that broccoli head.
He looked like a bunch of alpacas walking around. I
told my daughter, because she goes into high school next year,
I'm like, dad's got a few rules. One of them,
(09:56):
no alpaca boys. Okay, no kids older, that's the look.
Can a date anyone? Then? That one?
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Good?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Good? Even better? Uh So last night NBA Draft, we're
avoiding the word boring because uh yeah, I go by
the mindset if you say something's boring, that just means
you're boring. No, but I thought for sure that's what
you were gonna say, and you didn't, so I wanted
to point that out. I just want with the influx
of international players, I think the takeaways are it's probably
(10:22):
even trickier than ever for these front offices to make
the right pick because it's like, again, nineteen year old
kid from France that's been playing with men versus some
dude that's been playing in Cincinnati or Yukat or Syracuse.
He said, at that point, you're just going on potential. Yeah,
that's it, and uh we come from France. I think
We're about to hit the stage where I think free
agency will be way more exciting than the draft. But
(10:43):
I guess the big story today, Danny g is is
Bronnie gonna get picked or the Lakers just gonna pick
him up as an unsigned free agent, and that's gonna
be the path.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
And also a little bit of buzz about the Spurs
and what they're doing looking way towards the future, like
collecting picks for twenty thirty, twenty thirty one. All of
us we don't know what we're doing next week, and
they're planning way ahead.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Spurs. Hey, you know what, You're right. The Spurs are
building something. Unfortunately, it probably won't be with coach Pop
because that he's getting up there. I don't think he'll
be around in ten years still coaching. But Spurs rebuilding
in a pretty sweet way. So Hey, thoughts on the
NBA draft last night. Let us know at Covino and
Rich and if we hear anything about Brownie or any
(11:26):
other updates, you'll get him here on Fox Sports Radio,
Dan B, Dan Pyers, NBA Bate and B. He's on
the case. And while I was watching the draft, there
came a point Rich where I was like, you know what,
I'm all draft it out right now. Let me see
what's doing on Netflix. Oh well, it's not like you
were going to turn to the Mets Yankees game. Oh,
(11:48):
trending number one, and I heard some juicy things about it,
and my girlfriend agreed to watch. And that's always a
struggle in itself, you know, getting them to agree or
you agreeing on something. So I'm like, I'll watch that
some beautiful women sounds good to me, and she wanted
to watch it. There's a new show trending number one
(12:10):
called America's Sweetheart the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. It's been a
few seasons, right, this is on Netflix right now.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Netflix has it now. Another network used to happen, right.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Okay, But the story is like you'd be surprised to
see how much drama these girls go through. That's sort
of the juice and the vibe of it, right, Like
it's brutal. Because here's what guys don't factor in a
lot of times. If you played sports, a lot of
it was just based on your athletic ability, right, your hustle,
your grind, how tough you were, did you have a skill.
(12:45):
We were never judged in this aesthetic way that women
are and it is brutal. You know, you're seeing them
judge behind the scenes, like, I don't know, her face
is a little fat, I don't know, I don't know
what's No one's ever judged your cankls or thuhs exactly
And it's like, wow, man, and we know this, but
(13:06):
when you hear it, it's a different story. I told
you that the first time when when I, uh, you know,
I coach kids sports. When you get those parents with
no kids in the room, I was shocked at how
they talked about the kids. Yeah, that's what you get
on the shot. You're like, man, there's seven women put
(13:26):
themselves in a position to be unfortunately criticized in the
most brutal of ways. It's not about necessarily their dancing
ability all the time. It's about what they look like.
And I get it. I'm not playing naive. That's part
of the gig, right. You can't live like a like
a sloth, dancing for the or cheering for the cowboys.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
And all of that so they can make a couple
hundred dollars per game.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
That's where we were going with this. Okay, now I'm
not saying it's the same thing. I have to make
that very clear, and it's a bit of a stretch.
But we all talk about how the WNBA players aren't
making enough, right, they should be getting paid with the
men get paid. But when you hear what these women make,
(14:16):
and we've known this because we've faded a few of
them dancers, or interviewed them and had them on the show,
when you hear them talk about this, it's almost like, Wow,
that's a little pathetic because they're not just pretty girls.
These are the most talented girls who've been through this grind,
who are reaching and striving for this goal, who've given
(14:39):
up everything to do this on a professional I guess
you would say highest level. They're not just girls who
could do choreography. These are train expert dancers, experts in
their field, the best of the best, who look the best.
If your girl that could dance and cheer and move,
unless you're you know, in New York set in New
(15:00):
York City doing ballet or on Broadway or a strip club,
like there's only so many pats a dancer could go, right, No,
these girls are elite the ballet ballrooms. No, but it's
it's ridiculous to I agree with you one hundred sem
believe it or not. When you see the Dallas Cowboys, y'all,
I was saying, just Google, Google e this for me,
for it as I could get the Google machine going
google the net worth of the Dallas Cowboys. Okay, fair,
(15:23):
but you know they're worth I don't know, tops in
the NFL nine billion. There you go. So when you're
talking about Forbes, the women were being interviewed right, They're
sitting there and she's saying she makes about as much
as a Chick fil a worker and probably not meaning
they make more. They make about thirty thousand dollars a year.
(15:44):
And look, I get it. They sign up for this
and it's like a prestigious thing. But aren't they the
top notch echelon of what a cheerleader or dancer is
supposed to be. They all have full time jobs, they're nurses,
they're professionals, and then they have to do this later
on and get paid penuts. It seems like a weeak
ass side hustle for the visibility. Like if you're a
(16:06):
Dallas Cowboys cheerleader, I would think it's more than a
few like one hundred bucks a game or an appearance
here that it's all for the clout, it's all for
the bragging right of saying you're a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader.
Because they're not getting paid anything. And my point here
and again it's a stretch, but I don't think of
this for everybody to be so up in arms about
(16:27):
what the WNBA makes. How come no one gives a
diddly squad about what these girls make. They make nothing.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
We have pointed it out on our show before. The
WNBA is still going to be in debt even with
all the popularity this season, I know. So it's simple
mathematics when you're talking about the revenue and the TV
contracts and why the WNBA players aren't earning more. But
when it comes to the NFL billions and billions of dollars,
so come on, man, give them more money and the
(16:55):
easy solutions.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
The whole premise of the show is look at what
these girls oh through. That's the thing. The reason these
are the chosen girls and this is what they do
is because other girls they're not as qualified, they don't
look as good unfortunately, and they're not willing to do
what they're doing. You know, what I mean. I listen,
I have not been addressed yet. I wanted, how are
they still making a few hundred dollars per game? But Sam,
(17:18):
it's not even just and you just said they're worth
nine billion dollars. This is the Dallas Cowboys. What do
you think other professional dancers are making in the NBA?
The Lakers girls, the Nick City dancers. They're making chump
change to be the best at what they do. And again,
it's weird how we care about certain things and not
(17:40):
about other things. I think they add a lot to
a game as a fan, they really do. Can I
add one more thing?
Speaker 5 (17:44):
It's almost like someone I think a couple of magazines
have done this over the years, Like how much a
mom would be paid for all the work that she
does for her kids. It's like one hundred and eighty
thousand dollars a year. Yeah, like changing diapers, making meals, bathtime,
vacuuming everything that's do with being like a house housewife.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Soilmmaker. The league average, it says, is one hundred and
fifty dollars a game. The Dallas Cowboys upped their feet
at five hundred per game starting in twenty twenty two.
That's still pathetic. It is.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
I'm sorry for the best of there's done a lot
of work outside just the game.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
They and they all it's it's again you learned this
from the show. I'm not the expert. We do have
some knowledge in this, but on the show you just
see what they put their bodies through. The mental star
wish involved, yeah, the anguish involved, the fact that they
all have full time, regular jobs just to survive, but
have to go to this every day after work. The
(18:38):
grind is incredible, yet no one cares that they're paying nothing.
Just think of just think of that and you could
end it there. It's amazing. How again, Danny brought up
the economics, which is a big part of it WNBA,
and you could certain people where you argue they should
make more, well, the company they work for. It's not
making rep money. I get it. But the Cowboys in
(18:58):
the NFL, we always tell talk about how it's billions
and billions of dollars and such a part of the
ambiance of a stadium or part of the tradition are
these beautiful, talented cheerleaders and the fact that a nine
billion dollar team like the Cowboys, that's just one of
many that are billion dollar teams organizations, and we have
(19:19):
dancers or cheerleaders. Again, some are more renown and prominent
than other squads. So imagine what these lower end dance teams,
which is a cheer teams, which is perfectly goes along
with the theory I've had for years. Have you ever
heard one of the rules of cheerleaders is don't hook
(19:40):
up with players. That's always that's always a rule for
every organization. And I always say that is hilarious because
if you are a young woman and all of a sudden,
I don't know, remember Camille Costik was a cheerleader and
Gronk is crushing on you. If an NFL player is
hitting on you and you're a cheerleader, are you gonna
(20:01):
go for the rich awesome dude or you get back? No,
I don't want to sacrifice my two hundred dollars game. Yeah,
you can't even paint them out like they're some thirsty girl.
I'm just trying to get because those players are trying
to get with them. It goes both ways. It's just
wild to me. But yeah, look look at that. Something
you and I agree on. Cheerleaders are severely underpaid. Severely
(20:22):
underpaid considering like I said, they're looking for the best
of the best, but they're paying garbage money for that.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
I just heard from our promotions extraordinary Jade. She says,
No one does Playboy for the money. It's all about
saying I'm in Playboy or I'm a cheerleader.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Dude, That's very much the vibe that you get because
it's like, well, then why do they do it. They
do it for the clout and not necessarily the bragging, right,
but to say that they're the Dallas Cowboy cheerleader because
in their mind growing up, whether they cheerlead or they
dance or whatever, that's like being miss Miss America to them,
you know, that's like being the top of the heap
(21:00):
as a dancing Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Covino, you could compare this to broadcasting and some TV
stations too, for interns, reporters. We know reporters out on
the street. They make chump change and like Street Team
where you started in New York, garbage. See, either they
don't get paid or they're barely getting paid as a
paid intern or just on a minimum salary or hourly
(21:21):
I should say. So it's the same thing because you
could say Hey, I work for the biggest rock station
in New York.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
I remember in the nineties and two thousands, when I
was in high school and college, you would know people
that interned or worked part time for MTV, And I
remember being like, Yo, how cool you work at MTV
Time Square, that big building we see TRL. All the
artists coming through, they were always like, yeah, I like
volunteer or get paid like the minimum wage. Because people
(21:48):
were just excited to say, I work at MTV. They're
paying you in prestige. That's really yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
But that prestige in cloud should lead somewhere like if
you're if you're a cheerleader or you were, you know,
that should lead to like the should be attached to money.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
At some point.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
Yeah, well you know what otherwise, what are you really
bragging about? Like, yeah, I'm on TV, but I live
in a studio apartment.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
And by the way, you dedicate your five years of
your primo years to this organization. True, it's it's a
wild thing. It's it's again America's Sweetheart on Netflix, the
Dallas Countboy cheerleaders, and it shows you what they go
through the process to get there, how good they have
(22:30):
to be, and how little, they are paid again. As
our friend Jade said, the payoff is the cloud. Jay's right.
All right, Well, hey more Kvino and Rich. We'll talk
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cheerleaders NBA dancers. By the way, I used to date
New Jersey Nets power and motion dancer for years, for years,
(24:09):
and I knew, like, man, you're doing this at a
professional level and I'm getting paid more than you doing
part time radio nonsense. But they were very particular on
we're dancers, not cheerleaders. Oh, that was a big thing.
I appreciate you saying that, just to let the world
know you dated an NBA dancer. Finish the story, had
that relationship end, she ended up leaving me for a
(24:30):
guy on the Nets. True story. I was devastating, dude,
I was devastated. I really was. I was blind sided.
I thought I was at the rules. I'm believing you
for a guy on the team. I thought you weren't
allowed to do that. Yeah, I believe me. It wasn't
a brag, that's funny. It was it was They would
be highly offended when you said they were cheerleaders when
(24:53):
they were dance. Oh yeah, the women get offended by that.
And by the way, before we do fifty hits, I
just want to say one last thing I was saying.
Brought up a great point to wrap it up. All
these women that are elite dancers and not how to move.
Their quickest way to money is the worst way, which
is like be a stripper. It's like when they're trying
to do it like legit and just they're paid. They're
paid one hundred dollars, yeah, you know, and going Vegas
(25:15):
for the weekend's Spearmite Rhino you get five thousand dollars. Mike,
who runs this place, was pretty disappointed that we didn't
bring Mike who runs this place. Paul Abdul one of
the most famous in the NBA, and when we watched
Winning Time, it seemed like they gave her a lot
more credit for she was way more involved. She wasn't
just the dancing the evolution of the NBA dancer Paul
(25:36):
Abdul and Jerry West got a lot of credit right.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
With yeah, which she became the choreographer of the team.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
But the point is based on the Dallas Cowboys Donkey
series on Netflix. They're severely severely overworked and underpaid. Let's
do it when fifty hits. We do it every Thursday.
There's a certain what is go back.
Speaker 8 (25:59):
Back into time throwing it back for a Thursday, Old
School went fifty hits at fifty after CNR give you
the time capsule topic and we reminisce together.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Yeah, every Thursday, Every Thursday, we go old school when
fifty hits on the clock, when fifty hits in life,
even though fifty is the new forty or thirty five
or something like that. Shout out to Derek Juta today. Yeah,
Derek Jeter turned fifty this week, so old school and
(26:32):
fifty hits. Today we discuss the old school og Atari.
And I bring that up because today is the day.
On this day was the unveiling the creation of the
video game console Atari. Now, I had the Atari twenty
six hundred when it came out. I was an eighties kid.
(26:54):
I was a spoiled eighties kid, and I remember being
so excited. The first game I played was I think
combat Zone, combat Zone, but it did come with combat.
I remember it came with combat, and I remember grabbing
the joystick and my dad's like, hey, would you say,
I said, my joy stick. Yeah, I know what they're
(27:15):
trying to say with the joy stick, what do you mean, Dad,
you're playing? You're playing? What was it? Pitfall Harry, Pitfall Burn? Now,
all those games captivated us in the eighties, but the
question today based on the anniversary of Atar, the original Atari?
What year Rich nineteen seventy two, nineteen seventy the original Atari? Yeah,
(27:40):
this is when it essentially was like created. Yeah, like
we asked you this. Of all those old school crappy games,
especially Atari, which ones are still fun to play? Yeah?
Which ones are playable? The analogies. There's a lot of
great movies we grew up with, but only a few
stand to test the time. The classics stand the test
(28:01):
of time. Are there video games that we grow up
with that kids today would still fine enjoyable? Well, let
it be known. Everyone has their first gaming console. You
said Atari. I never owned the Atari. I have no
clue of these games you speak of my first video
game console. I was a little boy and I got
Nintendo Anies with Mario and Duck Hunt on the same game.
(28:21):
And uh so I'm a Nintendo say game. But you
didn't call it Mario. You call it Mario. You're from
the East Coast, Souber Mario, Super Mario golf. But there
are games that stand the test of time, Like you said,
movies and uh, we'll take your feedback. Next, what old
school video games could still be played today with enjoyment?
(28:43):
Pick is in, so we wait for the Pistons, then
Celtics Lakers. Ah, they made their pick, So Celtics on
the clock. Ooh, all right, so stay tuned for some
breaking news. What's gonna happen with the Lakers, Brownie James
and more. Plus hero moments. There's a hero and baseball.
There's a hero and we're gonna get to that. We're
(29:04):
gonna talk some hero moments plus later today an hour
from now on. Over promise our bonus podcast. Pooka Nikua.
That's gonna be fun. They're gonna play is it Hoktua
or Nikua? And he's serious, We are gonna play that.
We are gonna play hope he plays along with Pooka
Akua on Fox Sports Radio's YouTube page right after the show.
But it's old school and fifty hits rich that's what
we're talking about right now, no doubt. And by the way,
(29:25):
Yukon's cam Spencer went to Detroit with that pick.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
So nice.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Before we get to the old school phone calls eight seven,
seven nine nine on Fox. We're talking about those old
school video games that stand the test of time, because
today is the anniversary in nineteen seventy two. On this day,
Atari was invented, Atari was unleashed, and uh and Mike,
(29:50):
who runs this place, was wrong. He's like, what was
the first game combat? And I said Pong and he goes, no, no, no, Well,
anything i'm seeing says pop Pong was the first. Yeah,
there was a just a little unit of Pong. You're
a The twenty six hundred came with Combat, which is
what I had, And I correct myself. The first game
I ever played, because I remember it was like magic
(30:10):
when I put it on my TV for the first
time was Commando Raid. But it doesn't matter, because here's
the point. Those games were fun. And even though we've
come so far in video games, what we've what we've
gained in technology and graphics and and how great it looks,
I think we've lost in fun. These games were so
(30:31):
fun to play. I think what we lost was simple fun.
Simple like game games now are so much better, but
they're complex. You got to really invest time and effort
throwing a headset. You're playing for hours at a time,
competing saving games.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
You have to read the direction. Watch a YouTube.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Days of playing one game of double dribble that was
so simple. That was simple. Hey you popping blades of
steel for a quickie raads, so we lost that. My
best impression is Kung Fu? Can I do, mister X,
Let's play Kung Fu? Well done? Well done? So much
like some of the movies from our childhood are fails
(31:09):
with our kids, and some are good. I tried to
show my nieces and nephew Gremlins and they're like, Uncle Rich,
this is the lamest. But back to the future. Back
to the future. They're like, yo, this is a cool movie.
That's really what we're getting at. We grew up with
a lot of games that we thought were cool, but
only the classic stand the test of time. So on
(31:30):
the anniversary when the original Atari came out, most of
us had twenty six hundred. But which games from the
past would still be fun to play today? A lot
of them are sports games. You started with Atario, I
told you I started with Nintendo. I was probably six
or seven, and Santa put it under the tree. Nintendo
(31:51):
with the Duck Hunt Super Mario. Did you have a
rob the Robot? I did not shyro mighte. I didn't
have the power Glover or anything. And my Mom's like,
you don't need that. But I was just in Colorado,
remember like a month ago, and my nephew has what
is it done? Nintendo Switch, which you have the option
to get all the old school games. Yeah, and I
(32:12):
was like, yo, you got Mike Tyson's punch Out. He goes,
let me look. He played it, and he was serious
with me because he would make fun of me if
he could. He's like, yeah, this is actually sort of fun.
So I think Mike Tyson's punch Out because it's just
simple fighting, you versus the guys. You work your way
up to Mike Tyson. I think Tyson's punch Out stands
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the test attack, and there were patterns that you had
to figure out and follow, like how do you beat
King Hippo. I gotta hit him in the belly and
then the head, and yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
I would say, like good hip hop music, it was
ahead of its time.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Agreed. Agreed, Like I remember when I saw Mike Tyson's
punch Out for the first time for Nintendo and I
was like, Wow, we're in the future now, So again,
which ones stay in the testa time? Would be still
fun to play today for a kid, the ones we
grew up with. Well, we'll go to your feedback, but
Dann Byer, do you have breaking news or thoughts on
video games?
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Breaking news, guys, breaking news from Fox Sports.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
All right, guys, are you ready for this?
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
According to multiple reports, the Los Angeles Lakers will select
Bronnie James with the fifty fifth overall pick in the
twenty twenty four NBA draft. The Athletic and Bleacher Report
reporting that Bronnie James will be picked by the Lakers
at number fifty five.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
That is pretty pretty pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Kind of expected that.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
I don't tell you what we expected it, but I
get a feeling of, Man, that's nice to hear. It
really is. It's like, who gets to live that dream?
But you know what, you could say James, you could
say Kwannie, you could say lame. But you know what,
don't be jealous that someone's living their dream right now.
You know, Gonzaga's Anton Watson went to the Celtics, so
they didn't play any games. Lakers are technically still on
the clock. But you heard dB sources are saying, Ronnie,
(33:57):
do we have a TV with this? Hon? Is it
even on? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (34:00):
On right now? But the news of the pick hasn't.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Oh correct, Yeah, can someone flip it on one of
the teams the draft is on? It just hasn't been
announced yet, Yeah, on one of the TV's in here? Oh,
there is that it right? Yes? Is it right here?
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Right?
Speaker 1 (34:10):
And we have Panama vers USA? And I think it's
a special moment, really is Lebron haters would disagree, But
when we saw Ken Griffy Junior play with his dad,
that's few and far between. You rarely see things like this,
and it's nice. Most players, like I said, their kids
don't even ever get to see them play.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
They get to play together. You want to chase it,
you want to talk about one extreme to the other.
Last night, the Lakers were trending because of connect and
even Laker haters loved the pick like ooh steal of
the draft, And so the Lakers were getting a big
pat on the back just a week or so after
all the JJ Reddick and Hurley mess and all that,
(34:54):
and now today I feel like the you know, sucker
fish are going to come back up for the low
hang fruit.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Well they can. But the Lakers, you know, from the
outside looking in, if you want to be real about it,
one because they got the guy they wanted, and they
got the guy that they wanted. Yeah, you know from
the perspective Danny of you got the shooter you wanted
in connect and let's be honest, this is the end
of the second round. This is it. This is the
end of the draft. There's only two picks below this, right,
(35:21):
the three pick possible catastrophe that Dan Byer was saying
was possible. So I mean, unless you thought there was
someone that they could have snagged at pick fifty five
that would have made a difference in a Lakers playoff run, yeah,
then drafting Bronni is the good idea you have. But
clearly no other team thought he was worth that. But
you know that's another way to look at I love this,
(35:42):
and I love how the Lakers are milking the clock
like they don't know this is.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
This is actually part of the great drama because ESPN
has this broadcast. So the insiders, Shams from The Athletic
and Chris Haynes from Bleacher Report and TNT have already
reported this, Woje cannot because he's sitting on set with
the ESPN waiting for them to make the announcement.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Official that he can't drop a bomb.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Yes, that's exactly it, and it's the only pick that
that mattered. But they need it for their uh, for
their TV purposes, StEB, what's your.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
You know?
Speaker 3 (36:20):
I my favorite team is a situation where I think
a lot of people wonder why the brother of the
best player is on the roster, with Giannis's brother being
on the Bucks roster. But I think that's different than
than Lebron's situation of just doing a solid for Lebron.
I don't think that the pick really matters overall, but
(36:43):
I I just yeah, I I.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
I don't love it. What if it goes the way
what if it goes the way of Tommy Lesorda doing
the Piazza family a favor and it ends up being
the biggest we've seen I've seen solids payoff before. Yeah,
I mean, that's the once in a lifetime thing that
people don't know. BackStar was it Lesorda and the Piazza
family friends and they did a sort of a solid
and drafted Mike Piazza and like the last round or something.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
Yeah, it was like fifty fifth or thirty first or
whatever round. It was one of the greatest catchers ever. Yeah,
but it wasn't the second round. And I know there's
only two rounds in this draft and a lot of
these guys aren't going to see the light of day
of the NBA. But still, I just I said earlier
today that if Lebron was a twenty member, you know,
(37:26):
a twenty year member of the Cavaliers and they did
a solid, awesome What.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Is thatdam Silver doing today that he can't appear on this?
Is he having lunch with someone?
Speaker 2 (37:34):
Well?
Speaker 1 (37:35):
The I mean, this is Mark Tatum's time to shine.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
So there it is. The pick is official.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Sure, there it is. Now it's finally on TV. Guys,
So you got the inside early scoop from Dan Bayer
and Danny g you're the resident Laker guy. How do
you feel about it? Lebron's happy, Maybe there's some potential there.
What are you thinking? I'm okay with it. I agree
with what you you're in.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Initial reaction was, hey, they got their guy yesterday, and
so this pick they got the guy for Lebron, their
most coveted player. So it's fine, and I think Laker
Nation is going to be fine with it.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
I'll tie it to my favorite team, forty nine ers,
different sport. But hear me out, what made Trey Lance
stinking not hurt so much that mister irrelevant rock Party
ended up being so much better than we all could
have imagined. Again, connect being a guy that sort of
felter you in the draft and everyone's like, that's the
(38:32):
sharpshooter that the Lakers need for Lebron and ad to
kick it out to the fact that you got him,
and everyone's saying, Lakers got to steal in the first round.
This doesn't hurt anyone, doesn't hurt anybody. Agency hasn't Lebron happy?
And hey, from all we know, he steps up. I
mean you never know. You never know how he plays
with with his dad or maybe he just finds himself
(38:54):
in the NBA. Who knows. By the way, can we
get on Twitter watch has Lebron tweeted yet like ye
about dreams baby?
Speaker 2 (39:01):
I guess yeah, funny you say that. I was just looking.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Yeah, I was gonna say where. I mean, he has
to have it on seid draft has been written right
of that tweet. I'm still a proud moment for the family. Absolutely,
and we'll keep you posted on that. Lebron crying on
camera right now like Mice my son Ronnie to the
Lakers at fifty five. So back to old school in
fifty hits. And if you want to share your thoughts
(39:24):
on that, by all means, please do eight seven, seven
ninety nine on Fox at Covino and Rich. But we're
talking on the anniversary of Atari. The original Atari came
out in seventy two on this day again. I got
the twenty six hundred when I was a kid. But
of course I loved Nintendo growing up. What are the
games that stood the test of time? What are the
classics that a kid who is bored by everything today's
(39:50):
kid bored by everything and anything you want to show
them because you thought it was cool. Which ones are
they still willing to play? Based on the fun level?
We said, Mike Tyson's punch Out, it's classic. We do
it then, I think I'm not surprised by that. I
got another one. Oh, I don't know if anyone's gonna
say this one. I got two of them actually that
stand out to me. Okay, these are my two answers,
and I know there's more, and we leave that to
you eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox at Cavino
(40:12):
and Rich. Again, we're not saying these games compete with
the graphics and the and the you know, ridiculous, But
on a fun level, I think the kids could still
appreciate it. Like if you're playing with your kids or
niece or nephew, would they say, like I said, Tyson's
Punch Out. My nephew said, yeah, this is fun. It
is a fun game. I'm going RBI Baseball because it
was my all time favorite game. The graphics weren't as
(40:33):
cool as basses love to do whatever, Bro, But RBI,
as far as fun factor, was a fun game. It
wasn't meant to look cool. I loved RBI Baseball. I
think a kid could vibe with that if they're playing
with their dad, like, yeah, that'll play in some RBI.
I think that game game will stand at that as
the time I want. I want to agree with you
(40:53):
because it meant so much to me. RBI Baseball bases loaded.
But when you see like MLB the show, kids are
gonna look at RB Baseball and be like, hey, that's
all right. I think RBI Baseball was more fun than
bases loaded, and the fun factor would translate. I don't know, hey,
leave it to debate. In my last answer, contra okay,
with the code of course, with up, updown, down, left, right, left, right,
(41:15):
BA select star for two players, play with your kid. Look,
what a kid remembers most is that the adult, whoever
it may be, the parent, the uncle, the friend, is
willing to play with them at that moment. You play
some contra with your kid, they would love that. That's
like Bron. That's like Lebron play with Brownni.
Speaker 2 (41:32):
You know one that's inside David Busters right now. But
they went big. They put it on the big screen
Space Invaders.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
Space Invaders on Altari and well arcades first. But yeah,
a lot of those old school eighties arcades we had
the crappy Atari version, and Space Invaders is one of them,
for sure. The Moon Patrols of the World, which one
stand the test of time. I again, I admire the
gusto of RBI Baseball in your love of basis load
(42:00):
in all those games. But again MLB the show would
make a kid say what do you want me to play?
You could say that for every no game that's out now.
Every new game makes all these old games look terrible.
I thought, is, well, there's a lot of fun to
be had with NBA JAM. It's two on two, it's
pretty easy to play. But when some kids playing NBA
two K whatever like it's going to be tough to sell.
(42:23):
How could you say you don't think that modern day
boxing games make Mike Tyson's punch Out look silly. All
of the games make Yes three year's games looks silly.
But I'm gonna give you two sports games, I'm sorry,
two non sports games that I just think because they're comprehensive,
easy to play, and easy to understand. That's why I
chose RBI. Lanni Pofo, all right, I disagree with you,
(42:49):
and I'll tell you why you're comparing a sport you're
allowed to, but all your reasonings are why I picked RBI.
Sports games now would make an old sports game, for
the most part, seem weird. Now when you're playing a
complex game like a Halo or GTA or any of
these like, you know where you're playing for hours and hours.
The simplified version of that would be a left to
(43:11):
right sonic The Hedgehog Super Mario, like just a simple
like beat this level, move on to the next one.
I think that might get an old a kid like nostalgic, like, Dad,
this is what you played. Let me try Mario, Let
me try Sonic the Hedgehog. Guess again, you're jumping over things,
collecting coins or rings. I think those type of games. Well,
in that case, Zelda's got to be in the conversation
(43:31):
because it was one of the first games that you
could go up, down, left, right, You had a whole map,
You had a whole It had memory right, which most
games didn't. You could sort of pause it and remember
where you were. So again, we're going to your phone
calls eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox based on
the Atari Anniversary, which ones are still fun to play today? Well,
(43:53):
think about it on this day in nineteen seventy two,
before everyone in this room was born. It changed the world.
We talk about how you know the Super Bowl became
a thing in our parents' childhood. Ufc mm A wasn't
a thing until we were like young guys. Wrestling, hip
hop music, video games. Yeah, like you said, in the seventies,
your mom or dad was playing pong. Yeah, I mean
(44:14):
things have come a long way. Oh really. You know what,
as we go to the calls, I had thought about
the Bronni thing. You know, we're looking to see if
Lebron tweets. I don't think he will because that would
be stealing his kids moment. You know, Like if he
tweets it, it's like, look at him, Yo, he guess
what I me Bron, me Bron, all about me Lebron.
(44:35):
He's I think Lebron is holding back a little, is excited,
and he's like, you know what, this is Bronni's news
to share, not for me to be like proud, because
he could very well go on Twitter and Instagram right
now and be like proud Papa, you know, dreams come true.
But that's that's not his Later. Yeah, he's got to
be interviewed about it. I'm sure. Yeah, so let it
breathe There'll be no there'll be no shortage of questions.
(44:56):
That'll be great if he does that. All right, We're
going through the phones now, video games, old school and
fifty hits throwback. Thursday, Cavino and Rich on Fox Sports Radio.
Who do we got trip in Vegas? You're on with CNR.
Speaker 9 (45:08):
Hey buddy, Hey, gentlemen. Good didn't good to speak with
you all to day. Absolutely a couple of things. Uh
one about next time y'all are in Vegas? Real quick
on the subject, I would say, big Doug, possibly that's
super simple pole position. And then of course when Kalko
Vision came out with Donkey Kong, that was like exactly,
it's like the video like.
Speaker 1 (45:29):
The yeah if the Atari went stunk the Colicosi guess.
Speaker 2 (45:34):
Yeah, he said pole position. In the early eighties, that
was one we lined up for. Had the steering week, yes,
not only at the Arcade in Pizza parlors, but then
Atari twenty six hundred had their bad version of it.
Speaker 1 (45:46):
We had rad Racer on ne ees remember that? And
what did Trip say about Vegas? Next time we're there.
He's taking us as spearmout right now? Yes, Hey, thanks Trip.
Let's go to David in Missouri.
Speaker 9 (45:55):
Hey Dave, Hey Dave, Hey guys, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 10 (45:58):
Longtime caller.
Speaker 9 (45:59):
First time I gotta say, no one's mentioned Mario Kart
on the Nintendo sixty four.
Speaker 3 (46:05):
You're having your boys over.
Speaker 9 (46:06):
You're drinking, you're smoking your vitamins. I mean, it's still timeless,
you know.
Speaker 1 (46:10):
I'll tell you it's and it's great to play with
your kids. We brought you know, we got the switch
in the in the den, and my kids and my
wife and I. The fact that all four of us
could play Mario Kart is a lot of fun. There
is something cool about that. I was a PlayStation kid,
so I played Crash Bandicoot Racing. That was a great
game in.
Speaker 2 (46:28):
The Crash Bandicoot franchise.
Speaker 1 (46:29):
It was those fighting games too, you know, I had
the first PlayStation. I'm older than you, but I did
have the first one. And I had techn and teching too,
lay ooh long. And I just think a lot of
those fighting games would still be fun for anybody today,
you know, even Immortal Kombat, because it was so classic
(46:51):
and so legendary. And the kids might have some sort
of idea of what that was and the significance of
the game. Again, they might find an interest a fighting
game as simple as it gets. Okay to I, I'm
not a big gamer. I got too much going on.
I don't know how you could balance life sports, kids
(47:12):
work everything, NBA gamer, but people do it. My nephew
showed me this and I thought it was pretty cool.
So there's gamers that are like yet duh, Rich of course,
have you seen Super Smash Brothers, Cavino, I've heard of it.
Let me see it. It's well, it's it's like almost
like a street Fighter Mortal Kombat game, but you pick
characters from any video game, like you can be like,
I'll be Little Mac and Little Mike could Fat.
Speaker 5 (47:33):
Francia's Super Smash Brothers. All I I was just like
never good at it, so.
Speaker 1 (47:36):
Super Smash Brothers, like you could be like, all right,
I'm gonna be uh, I'll be Pikachu. All right, I'll
be I'll be Little Mac from Mike Tyson's punch Out.
And it's every character from every game, and they got
their own little skills and stuff. That'd be mighty bomb Jack.
I'm sure you could away like it's like it's way
every character. That's pretty cool. Man. Let's go to Kelly.
What's up, dude, South Dakota. Which one stood or stand
(47:57):
the test of time today? What's the problem?
Speaker 10 (48:01):
A previous caller took my N sixty four cart. I
know we're talking on any sanatauri no no no.
Speaker 1 (48:08):
I mean, if it's all hard, it's all good.
Speaker 10 (48:10):
But along with cart GoldenEye. I mean there was it was.
It was, like you said, getting together with your buddies
playing playing cart GoldenEye, just four on four, just just
just having a good time.
Speaker 1 (48:21):
I'm gonna I'm gonna defer to Iowa Sam. Is he
right on this one? I played so much Golden Eye?
What was it?
Speaker 5 (48:26):
The r CP ninety, like the big machine gun. There's
all these fun weapons and proximity minds, the soundtrack.
Speaker 1 (48:33):
So Danny g hit on something too, though, you know,
a lot we're focusing on, like the fun factor still translates. Yeah,
but a lot of these maybe have to do with
the fact that they were ahead of their time, and
that's why they get a little bit of an advantage.
Pass Yeah, free pass now.
Speaker 2 (48:48):
Yeah. Did either of you guys on Nintendo play Metroid? Yeah,
that was ahead of its time. Yeah, we played that
game for hours. If you got little kids. Now, my
thought of when you think of what old school games
would translate. I keep saying, sometimes simplistic will work, like
a Mario card or it's Sonic the Hedgehog. It's so
(49:08):
easy to follow.
Speaker 1 (49:09):
I know my kids are little, but we play Mario
Party all the time because all the games are pretty easy. Like, no,
I actually agree with that, you know not. I'm not
a fan of games where you know the character too,
so there's intrigue, there's familiarity a browser, Yeah, they still
recognize those characters.
Speaker 2 (49:27):
Rich On the Atari twenty six hundred. Have you ever
heard of the game of Warlords? What you just said
about a lot of people being able to play it once?
It was the first game where all of us in
the early mid eighties could have a corner of the screen.
It was four controllers and there was like a force
field kind of around each corner, a paddle for a
(49:48):
digital paddle for each player, and a pong going and
like you tried to chip away at their force the
plow them up in the corner of the screen.
Speaker 1 (49:56):
That reminds me of combat because that was the only
game I had any use for the paddles because it
came at paddles. And uh, you're right. I don't remember
this game, Danny, but it looks cool. I looked it
up just now. Hey, a little fun fact about your boy, Cavino.
I don't know if you know this, but I'm on
five different My voice is on five different GTAs. How
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cool is that?
Speaker 2 (50:17):
Going?
Speaker 1 (50:17):
A cookie. Yeah, a lot of people. You know what, No,
it's weird because I like to think we've had a nice,
long career in broadcasting. Rich You're You're one thing that
people bring up to me all the time. It's like, yo, dude,
you're on Grand Theft Auto. I don't do anything major.
I'm no major character. But yeah, you could hear me
on five different ones. So when you got kids that
are influenced by these advanced games like that, it's kind
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of tough to pull their interest on some of these
old school basic ones. You know, you said bass was
loaded in RBI Baseball. I'm going different angle on this
because this game was way ahead of its time, way
ahead of its time. A lah. What Danny G said,
do you remember Baseball Stars and you could build the
players you can name them my My Baseball Stars was
(51:02):
something called Baseball Simulator one thousand.
Speaker 2 (51:04):
I loved that.
Speaker 1 (51:04):
There was a game Baseball Stars. Yeah, I remember it
where I could say I could name the players on
my team like Sam, Danny G. Cavino, And you could
do that with Baseball Simulator. You could give them strengths
and weaknesses like oh, I'm gonna give Cavino will have
all the power. Yeah. I thought that was cool because
when you were a kid, you're like, whoa wa wait,
I could name the guys on this game after my
little team.
Speaker 2 (51:23):
It had the cartoon of the big muscle bound hitter.
Speaker 1 (51:28):
I totally remember that one. But again, oh, I'm telling you,
I want to I want to one up you with
Baseball Simulator one thousand, because you could do trick at
bats the batters like each dude. You could give them
like a missile hit or a bomb hit, and then
you could rename all the guys. And I used to like, yeah,
I totally remember Baseball Stars. Some of them were super fun,
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as basic as they appear nowadays.
Speaker 3 (51:54):
Dan Byer, what's up Baseball Simulator? Could you play like
on the Moon? Like, yes, yes, I love.
Speaker 1 (52:01):
I loved that game that you could play on the Moon?
And he like rocketscept Did everyone in this room have
the one friend who was like the spoiled kid who
had every one of these games? Like I hate to
say rich, but it was me. I'm spoiled kid, yourself hatable.
I know I was gonna say, we all have that
one kid, and I'll give you the commonalities. The one
(52:21):
kid that you knew who was spoiled. I was like
the Mexican Richie rich Bro. He had every Nintendo game,
he was allowed to order every like WrestleMania, Tyson Fight,
like they always had the pay per views. And it
was also the kid that his dad had Playboy for
some reason, Like it was like that family I didn't have.
I wanted that I had scrambled Playboy channel, but it
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did not have it. But I always feel like the
rich kid had cable the or the elite. I was rich.
I was just super spoiled. Panama's playing huh Panama USA
one one right now? Panama rich Oystoe was canon by dad.
(53:03):
As a kid, I was always like can and Ball
and Kevin. I was like, what are you talking about?
He's not Cannabo Bro. So we grew up on the
East Coast. We're in Los Angeles now. But if you
grew up on the East Coast spot, do you have
any friend who went to Villanova for college. I had
a couple friend who went to Nova. Of course, I
wonder how many Villanova Knicks fans there are, because that
(53:23):
must be like a dream come true that you got
four dudes from Villanova on the Knicks it really is
like I can't remember any other time where it was
that one college heavy on a team. But I'm saying that,
you know, if people don't know, if they're you know,
living under a rock. Villanova's outside of Philadelphia. Yeah, good one, Tony.
So Villanova isn't that far from New York City. We're
(53:45):
talking about two hours or less. So there's plenty of
people that could very well be New York Knicks fans
and Villanova alum And that's got to be really cool
for them because I can't tell you. I'll tell you firsthand.
I'm a Syracuse guy. I don't know anyone Syracuse that
ever ended up on my niners or you know, any
team I rooted for.
Speaker 2 (54:04):
Man, Villanova has the entire old squad back together again.
Speaker 1 (54:08):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (54:08):
And you see the old clip I sent you guys
of stephen A back in the day saying Villanova doesn't
have any NBA talent on that roster.
Speaker 1 (54:17):
And now it's Kurt stephen A is like, that's what
I'm talking about. Baby, Hey, we all you know it's funny.
Take the receipts. Most people are wrong, All right, heroes,
let's talk about this ball boy of justice later early,
but luckily they have over promised. Our bonus podcast with
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bat boy Javier Herrera, who made the amazing line drive
(55:01):
foul ball snag that saved Otani's life. And by the way,
not even exaggerating, that could have been bad news. That
could have been a broken nose, hitting the head, concussion,
eye socket, that could have been nasty hit him in
the throat. This kid snagged a line drive. Did you
see it? I did not. It reminds me of you
(55:22):
ever see a bat flying to the crowd and the
guy prevented it from hitting a woman like he snagged
a bat. Those are moments, dude, I've seen these, and
this is one of the best ones I've ever seen,
especially when consider the guy he was protecting. Sho Hey
Otani game in baseball.
Speaker 2 (55:42):
Dodgers record, by the way, ten straight games with an RBI.
Speaker 1 (55:46):
That's incredible. So He's the hero of the day, and
we all have our hero stories. Rich. I remember one
time I was working by a pet store that was
on fire, and I ran inside it grabbed all the snakes,
I grabbed all the dogs. I'm sure you're not talking
about Pee Wee's big adventure. Oh wait, my bad, that
was pee Wee Herman. But I was walking by a
jumpy jump at a farmer's market one time and it
(56:09):
was like this big giant batman jumpy jump and all
his little kids are jumping in it, and it started
to deflate on top all the kids, and I'm pretty
sure flames broke out. I'm pretty sure it was flames,
some sort of explosion, and it started sinking on all
these kids and the parents were freaking out. Dude. I
ran in there, like p W. Herman, and I started
handing out the kids, like here's another one, here's another one.
(56:32):
I saved. I ran in there, I didn't hesitate and
saved all the kids from the deflated jumpy jump. And
they really treated me that I was a hero. It
was awesome, true story. The story saved kids, Steve Kevino, Dude,
the kids were freaking out, saved them dancy dance hero,
don't be mad that you don't have a story, Jumpy Jump,
let me here. By the time you were here, Jumpy Jump,
(56:53):
I was like, hey, man, bouncy house, bounce house, what
do you call them? You were about to go home
with this really ugly girl and I was like, comno,
let's well, let's get to sell the pizza. That is true,
save big mistake, yes it now. I want to hear
your hero stories there. One time Spot was gonna call
his ex girlfriend. I'm like, give me your phone. I
want to hear your Javier Herrera stories. You can hit
(57:16):
us up at Covino and Rich at Fox Sports Radio,
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guest in six minutes, so yeah, uh the Fox Sports
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Before we get to the NBA Draft and something you
watched last night that ties into sports. A part of
sports that I love cheerleaders, Oh America's sweetheart? Well doubt ken.
We'll get to that. But I saw a story that's
right up your alley because you're a conspiracy weirdo at times.
Yeah me, way to paint a great picture of your boy,
you know, can me down the guy? But working with
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twenty years weirdo, I saw an article out of the
New York Post that is right up your alley. It
said aliens might be living among us disguised as humans.
And why is that so crazy to think? You see
some of the weirdos that work here at Fox Sports. Oh,
mikel runs this place. I see some guy was talking
to themselves, who like, what was that guy doing? How
do you get a job? There is someone here that
(01:04):
does talk to the best.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Didn't you see the classic movie Men in Black? They're
among us that movie, Everything about that movie, it all
came true.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
I'm just saying, imagine it. That's Hollywood's way of preparing
you for the truth. Imagine if everyone that's an elite
level we end up finding out because they're an alien.
What if we found out Otani, Aaron Judge, Taylor Swift,
you name it. Oh, the silly humans think I'm real
(01:32):
them think it. Otani n zips his face at night?
We did it again. What if like mahomes unzips his
face Like, oh, it makes sense now, Aaron Judge alien,
all these guys aliens, Elon Musk alien. I'll forward you
that article for later because I just saw that.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I'm like, oh, I love this, Sam Cassell alien.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Oh I've always thought that Willie McGhee alien. Sam Cassell
alien for sure. So anyway, thank you guys, Thank you
Rich You're right. I did watch a cheerleading documentary that
I will get to. But I did tune into the
NBA draft first. Yeah, you know, which is going on
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as we speak, not a draft that will go down
in the history books. Is like whoa excitement, unless, of course,
some of these guys just turned out to be bigger
than we think. But you heard the narrative last night,
which was a lot of these guys could be role players,
bench players. I don't think anyone's changing their franchise with
the first round last night. That was the that was
(02:35):
the thought I got. But Danny g your Laker's got
the shooter you wanted.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yeah, man, that he was a steal connect. He was
you know, a lot like Steven Awits. Yeah, he was
a guy that a lot of people thought would go
in the top ten. A lot of people had him
ranked like eighth, ninth. And so when the Griz took
Edie off the board, who some people had as the
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you know, pro player that maybe the Lakers would consider
at seventeen, all of a sudden, Tennessee Shooters, their SEC
scoring leader is there on the board. And you know,
Polinka was salivating.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Oh yeah, And you know what the observations I made were,
You know, my feelings on draft projections and predictions. They're
all horse manure. No one knows until they play. But no,
it's that stuff I use in the shower, rich oh hogwash, Yeah,
that stuff it is but the narrative today is Edie
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perhaps a little too early, and your boy connect. You
guys got a shooter. As stephen A said J. J. Reddick,
the Lakers are sick of Laham bricks, Lebron and Ad
kicking it out to guys that are just missing, miss
and missing. So maybe you have the sharp shooter you
need to fit right into your Lakers. But those are
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big takeaways. And then the obvious is it was just
good background TV last night. Let's be honest, it was
the calm before tonight's storm of the debates, and it
was just good background. No wayly that juicy, nothing that interesting,
and people are still waiting to see what happens to Bronni.
That's the real story. I feel like I'm putting the
wrong emphasis, but I know I'm not Zacharay, your number
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one pick. It's interesting also because we've talked about over
the last decades how global the game has become, and
you know, another Frenchman taking number one, couple French players.
In fact, I was saying to Danny g before the show,
and I don't know. Again, I'm not Doug Gottlieb. I'm
(04:33):
not your superstar basketball analyst. I bring fun, don't. I
don't bring the uh, I don't bring that level of insight.
But how do you compare a guy that played in
France against the guy that played at like Yukon or Kentucky. Like,
to me, it's like you're it's any international player. They
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get extra credit because they're beyond their years because they
play with men at a professional level early in their life,
so they're sort of prepared in a different way. And
that's what we're seeing with these younger foreign players. You know,
like da play like men. They're not playing like boys
because they've played with men already a lot of times.
The criticism in the NFL is it's hard to assess
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a quarterback that didn't play in a big conference because well,
who did they play against? It is a little interesting
when you're like, hey, this guy played in France, this
guy played here, this guy played in Division one hoops
for Duke, Like, how do you even if they've never
played against the same people in the same league. Isn't
it as risky as any draft pick? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
I think it's completely risky. And the thing that was
not surprising, but still it jars my ears. Actually, the
analysis of Dalton connect one of the reasons that he
fell too old. So it's almost the less, you know, right,
the better the possibility of that lottery ticket being the
(05:54):
Mega millions winner. You're drafting a lot on potential until
you see some of these friends.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
He's twenty four, connects twenty four. They made it sound
like he was seventy four.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Yeah, yeah, right, truly, like it was like that was
something that was against him.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
But he plays in rockports because.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
You want the guy with the possibility of being that
All Star, you want that lottery ticket. And that's what
the NBA draft has become.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Yeah, the NBA draft needs to be all guys wearing
high socks because if you're rocking ankle socks too old, Yeah,
you gotta have that high sock energy, not low sock energy.
You gotta be a younger fella. But somebodyse foreign players
are just far more mature. They play more of a
mature game than today's American That's been the observation in
the past few years.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
In Rich he's not even that at least twenty three.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah, you know what, they they made it seem like
the dude needed to do Jess fro Mentez.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Yeah, when's his birthday. Let's see April nineteen, okay, so
he just turned Yeah, just turned twenty. It's one of
my favorites.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
If you ask somebody how old they are, and they'll
tell you how old they will be, not how old
they actually are.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yeah, as you get older, you go the opposite wall.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Be twenty four in April. I like that.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
No, so you're twenty three? dB I do that too sometimes, Yeah,
all the time. I don't know why he does it,
because you had like me, every time I talk about
my age. As the years pass, I just keep saying
forty ish, I go the other way. I don't you know,
we don't attack it on the years. We interviewed a
comedian named rod Man. Remember Rodman a while back, not
Dennis Rodman, a guy named rod Man, and I was like, yo, man,
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how old are you? He goes, what I'm grown. I'm like, no,
but how old are you? He goes. I don't tell
people how old am because then you're trying to judge me.
I just tell them I'm grown. So what's your question?
So you do get to a point where you just
say I'm grown grown, I'm grown, grown grown. Now I
guess all eyes today and of course Donald Trump a
(07:47):
man Joe Biden tonight. But besides the debate tonight, what
I thought you were going to say, though, rich And
I give you a credit for dancing around it. I
thought for sure you were going to give the lazy opinion,
which is true, because I was feeling it that it
was kind of boring. The draft was boring. I'm surprised
you didn't say that, well, but I thought it was.
I guess you know what it is. I praise you
(08:07):
all for focusing on the positives, but I got a
boring vibe out of it. Could have been my mood.
I did go to the gym, I was on the treadmill.
Maybe it was just me, but that's the vibe I got.
My wife's observation was, and again it's not like we're
old timers, but she's like, some of these guys look
like little kids. They really do. I like that they
showed some emotion, that it meant something to these guys.
(08:29):
I saw them fighting back, some emotions, some tears. That
was kind of cool. Did you see how ab was
live treeting? Oh yeah, yeah, he got hot water.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Yeah, basically said.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Drafting some old school gay slang. That is not appreciated
in the twenty twenty four society. Yeah, Antonio Brown somehow
made the headlines last night.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
And besides that, I saw on Twitter some comments of
people saying, this is the first NBA draft class where
I feel like I could beat some of them up.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Yeah. My wife is from the San Antonio area in
New Bromfles, Texas, and the Spurs chose Stefan Castle from Yukon.
My wife's like, how old is he looks like he's sixteen.
He had his you know, he had his cool dreads
under his hat, glasses on. She's like, he looks like
a high school kid. I'm like, not far off, you know, Yeah,
(09:17):
that's not true because high school kids. Ok, at it
look like alpaca boys, that is true. Broccoli heads.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Alex Sarl, the second overall pick, was brought to tears.
But that's because he found out he had to play
for the Wizards.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
And didn't say, is that a real team? Then he said,
I'm France, is that a real team?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
You make me disappear?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
So hey, what'd you say, Jenner? Al pakahead, alpacahead, al
paca boys. Yes, Ala, that's twenty five thousand dollars. Alpa.
Do you know what I mean by you know, high
school kid? Every high school kid has that broccoli head.
He looked like a bunch of alpacas walking around. I
told my daughter, because she goes into high school next year,
I'm like, dad's got a few rules. One of them,
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no alpaca boys. Okay, no kids older, that's the look.
Can a date anyone? Then? That one?
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Good?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Good? Even better? Uh So last night NBA Draft, we're
avoiding the word boring because uh yeah, I go by
the mindset if you say something's boring, that just means
you're boring. No, but I thought for sure that's what
you were gonna say, and you didn't, so I wanted
to point that out. I just want with the influx
of international players, I think the takeaways are it's probably
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even trickier than ever for these front offices to make
the right pick because it's like, again, nineteen year old
kid from France that's been playing with men versus some
dude that's been playing in Cincinnati or Yukat or Syracuse.
He said, at that point, you're just going on potential. Yeah,
that's it, and uh we come from France. I think
We're about to hit the stage where I think free
agency will be way more exciting than the draft. But
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I guess the big story today, Danny g is is
Bronnie gonna get picked or the Lakers just gonna pick
him up as an unsigned free agent, and that's gonna
be the path.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
And also a little bit of buzz about the Spurs
and what they're doing looking way towards the future, like
collecting picks for twenty thirty, twenty thirty one. All of
us we don't know what we're doing next week, and
they're planning way ahead.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Spurs. Hey, you know what, You're right. The Spurs are
building something. Unfortunately, it probably won't be with coach Pop
because that he's getting up there. I don't think he'll
be around in ten years still coaching. But Spurs rebuilding
in a pretty sweet way. So Hey, thoughts on the
NBA draft last night. Let us know at Covino and
Rich and if we hear anything about Brownie or any
(11:26):
other updates, you'll get him here on Fox Sports Radio,
Dan B, Dan Pyers, NBA Bate and B. He's on
the case. And while I was watching the draft, there
came a point Rich where I was like, you know what,
I'm all draft it out right now. Let me see
what's doing on Netflix. Oh well, it's not like you
were going to turn to the Mets Yankees game. Oh,
(11:48):
trending number one, and I heard some juicy things about it,
and my girlfriend agreed to watch. And that's always a
struggle in itself, you know, getting them to agree or
you agreeing on something. So I'm like, I'll watch that
some beautiful women sounds good to me, and she wanted
to watch it. There's a new show trending number one
(12:10):
called America's Sweetheart the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. It's been a
few seasons, right, this is on Netflix right now.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Netflix has it now. Another network used to happen, right.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Okay, But the story is like you'd be surprised to
see how much drama these girls go through. That's sort
of the juice and the vibe of it, right, Like
it's brutal. Because here's what guys don't factor in a
lot of times. If you played sports, a lot of
it was just based on your athletic ability, right, your hustle,
your grind, how tough you were, did you have a skill.
(12:45):
We were never judged in this aesthetic way that women
are and it is brutal. You know, you're seeing them
judge behind the scenes, like, I don't know, her face
is a little fat, I don't know, I don't know
what's No one's ever judged your cankls or thuhs exactly
And it's like, wow, man, and we know this, but
(13:06):
when you hear it, it's a different story. I told
you that the first time when when I, uh, you know,
I coach kids sports. When you get those parents with
no kids in the room, I was shocked at how
they talked about the kids. Yeah, that's what you get
on the shot. You're like, man, there's seven women put
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themselves in a position to be unfortunately criticized in the
most brutal of ways. It's not about necessarily their dancing
ability all the time. It's about what they look like.
And I get it. I'm not playing naive. That's part
of the gig, right. You can't live like a like
a sloth, dancing for the or cheering for the cowboys.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
And all of that so they can make a couple
hundred dollars per game.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
That's where we were going with this. Okay, now I'm
not saying it's the same thing. I have to make
that very clear, and it's a bit of a stretch.
But we all talk about how the WNBA players aren't
making enough, right, they should be getting paid with the
men get paid. But when you hear what these women make,
(14:16):
and we've known this because we've faded a few of
them dancers, or interviewed them and had them on the show,
when you hear them talk about this, it's almost like, Wow,
that's a little pathetic because they're not just pretty girls.
These are the most talented girls who've been through this grind,
who are reaching and striving for this goal, who've given
(14:39):
up everything to do this on a professional I guess
you would say highest level. They're not just girls who
could do choreography. These are train expert dancers, experts in
their field, the best of the best, who look the best.
If your girl that could dance and cheer and move,
unless you're you know, in New York set in New
(15:00):
York City doing ballet or on Broadway or a strip club,
like there's only so many pats a dancer could go, right, No,
these girls are elite the ballet ballrooms. No, but it's
it's ridiculous to I agree with you one hundred sem
believe it or not. When you see the Dallas Cowboys, y'all,
I was saying, just Google, Google e this for me,
for it as I could get the Google machine going
google the net worth of the Dallas Cowboys. Okay, fair,
(15:23):
but you know they're worth I don't know, tops in
the NFL nine billion. There you go. So when you're
talking about Forbes, the women were being interviewed right, They're
sitting there and she's saying she makes about as much
as a Chick fil a worker and probably not meaning
they make more. They make about thirty thousand dollars a year.
(15:44):
And look, I get it. They sign up for this
and it's like a prestigious thing. But aren't they the
top notch echelon of what a cheerleader or dancer is
supposed to be. They all have full time jobs, they're nurses,
they're professionals, and then they have to do this later
on and get paid penuts. It seems like a weeak
ass side hustle for the visibility. Like if you're a
(16:06):
Dallas Cowboys cheerleader, I would think it's more than a
few like one hundred bucks a game or an appearance
here that it's all for the clout, it's all for
the bragging right of saying you're a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader.
Because they're not getting paid anything. And my point here
and again it's a stretch, but I don't think of
this for everybody to be so up in arms about
(16:27):
what the WNBA makes. How come no one gives a
diddly squad about what these girls make. They make nothing.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
We have pointed it out on our show before. The
WNBA is still going to be in debt even with
all the popularity this season, I know. So it's simple
mathematics when you're talking about the revenue and the TV
contracts and why the WNBA players aren't earning more. But
when it comes to the NFL billions and billions of dollars,
so come on, man, give them more money and the
(16:55):
easy solutions.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
The whole premise of the show is look at what
these girls oh through. That's the thing. The reason these
are the chosen girls and this is what they do
is because other girls they're not as qualified, they don't
look as good unfortunately, and they're not willing to do
what they're doing. You know, what I mean. I listen,
I have not been addressed yet. I wanted, how are
they still making a few hundred dollars per game? But Sam,
(17:18):
it's not even just and you just said they're worth
nine billion dollars. This is the Dallas Cowboys. What do
you think other professional dancers are making in the NBA?
The Lakers girls, the Nick City dancers. They're making chump
change to be the best at what they do. And again,
it's weird how we care about certain things and not
(17:40):
about other things. I think they add a lot to
a game as a fan, they really do. Can I
add one more thing?
Speaker 5 (17:44):
It's almost like someone I think a couple of magazines
have done this over the years, Like how much a
mom would be paid for all the work that she
does for her kids. It's like one hundred and eighty
thousand dollars a year. Yeah, like changing diapers, making meals, bathtime,
vacuuming everything that's do with being like a house housewife.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Soilmmaker. The league average, it says, is one hundred and
fifty dollars a game. The Dallas Cowboys upped their feet
at five hundred per game starting in twenty twenty two.
That's still pathetic. It is.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
I'm sorry for the best of there's done a lot
of work outside just the game.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
They and they all it's it's again you learned this
from the show. I'm not the expert. We do have
some knowledge in this, but on the show you just
see what they put their bodies through. The mental star
wish involved, yeah, the anguish involved, the fact that they
all have full time, regular jobs just to survive, but
have to go to this every day after work. The
(18:38):
grind is incredible, yet no one cares that they're paying nothing.
Just think of just think of that and you could
end it there. It's amazing. How again, Danny brought up
the economics, which is a big part of it WNBA,
and you could certain people where you argue they should
make more, well, the company they work for. It's not
making rep money. I get it. But the Cowboys in
(18:58):
the NFL, we always tell talk about how it's billions
and billions of dollars and such a part of the
ambiance of a stadium or part of the tradition are
these beautiful, talented cheerleaders and the fact that a nine
billion dollar team like the Cowboys, that's just one of
many that are billion dollar teams organizations, and we have
(19:19):
dancers or cheerleaders. Again, some are more renown and prominent
than other squads. So imagine what these lower end dance teams,
which is a cheer teams, which is perfectly goes along
with the theory I've had for years. Have you ever
heard one of the rules of cheerleaders is don't hook
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up with players. That's always that's always a rule for
every organization. And I always say that is hilarious because
if you are a young woman and all of a sudden,
I don't know, remember Camille Costik was a cheerleader and
Gronk is crushing on you. If an NFL player is
hitting on you and you're a cheerleader, are you gonna
(20:01):
go for the rich awesome dude or you get back? No,
I don't want to sacrifice my two hundred dollars game. Yeah,
you can't even paint them out like they're some thirsty girl.
I'm just trying to get because those players are trying
to get with them. It goes both ways. It's just
wild to me. But yeah, look look at that. Something
you and I agree on. Cheerleaders are severely underpaid. Severely
(20:22):
underpaid considering like I said, they're looking for the best
of the best, but they're paying garbage money for that.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
I just heard from our promotions extraordinary Jade. She says,
No one does Playboy for the money. It's all about
saying I'm in Playboy or I'm a cheerleader.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Dude, That's very much the vibe that you get because
it's like, well, then why do they do it. They
do it for the clout and not necessarily the bragging, right,
but to say that they're the Dallas Cowboy cheerleader because
in their mind growing up, whether they cheerlead or they
dance or whatever, that's like being miss Miss America to them,
you know, that's like being the top of the heap
(21:00):
as a dancing Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Covino, you could compare this to broadcasting and some TV
stations too, for interns, reporters. We know reporters out on
the street. They make chump change and like Street Team
where you started in New York, garbage. See, either they
don't get paid or they're barely getting paid as a
paid intern or just on a minimum salary or hourly
(21:21):
I should say. So it's the same thing because you
could say Hey, I work for the biggest rock station
in New York.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
I remember in the nineties and two thousands, when I
was in high school and college, you would know people
that interned or worked part time for MTV, And I
remember being like, Yo, how cool you work at MTV
Time Square, that big building we see TRL. All the
artists coming through, they were always like, yeah, I like
volunteer or get paid like the minimum wage. Because people
(21:48):
were just excited to say, I work at MTV. They're
paying you in prestige. That's really yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
But that prestige in cloud should lead somewhere like if
you're if you're a cheerleader or you were, you know,
that should lead to like the should be attached to money.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
At some point.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
Yeah, well you know what otherwise, what are you really
bragging about? Like, yeah, I'm on TV, but I live
in a studio apartment.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
And by the way, you dedicate your five years of
your primo years to this organization. True, it's it's a
wild thing. It's it's again America's Sweetheart on Netflix, the
Dallas Countboy cheerleaders, and it shows you what they go
through the process to get there, how good they have
(22:30):
to be, and how little, they are paid again. As
our friend Jade said, the payoff is the cloud. Jay's right.
All right, Well, hey more Kvino and Rich. We'll talk
some NBA today a very special anniversary and it has
to do with the gaming world, so we'll get to that.
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Such a good song. Thank you, Iowa, Samuel, You Danny
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on the phone super producing at eighty seven seven ninety
nine on Fox. You know, one final thing about NFL
cheerleaders NBA dancers. By the way, I used to date
New Jersey Nets power and motion dancer for years, for years,
(24:09):
and I knew, like, man, you're doing this at a
professional level and I'm getting paid more than you doing
part time radio nonsense. But they were very particular on
we're dancers, not cheerleaders. Oh, that was a big thing.
I appreciate you saying that, just to let the world
know you dated an NBA dancer. Finish the story, had
that relationship end, she ended up leaving me for a
(24:30):
guy on the Nets. True story. I was devastating, dude,
I was devastated. I really was. I was blind sided.
I thought I was at the rules. I'm believing you
for a guy on the team. I thought you weren't
allowed to do that. Yeah, I believe me. It wasn't
a brag, that's funny. It was it was They would
be highly offended when you said they were cheerleaders when
(24:53):
they were dance. Oh yeah, the women get offended by that.
And by the way, before we do fifty hits, I
just want to say one last thing I was saying.
Brought up a great point to wrap it up. All
these women that are elite dancers and not how to move.
Their quickest way to money is the worst way, which
is like be a stripper. It's like when they're trying
to do it like legit and just they're paid. They're
paid one hundred dollars, yeah, you know, and going Vegas
(25:15):
for the weekend's Spearmite Rhino you get five thousand dollars. Mike,
who runs this place, was pretty disappointed that we didn't
bring Mike who runs this place. Paul Abdul one of
the most famous in the NBA, and when we watched
Winning Time, it seemed like they gave her a lot
more credit for she was way more involved. She wasn't
just the dancing the evolution of the NBA dancer Paul
(25:36):
Abdul and Jerry West got a lot of credit right.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
With yeah, which she became the choreographer of the team.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
But the point is based on the Dallas Cowboys Donkey
series on Netflix. They're severely severely overworked and underpaid. Let's
do it when fifty hits. We do it every Thursday.
There's a certain what is go back.
Speaker 8 (25:59):
Back into time throwing it back for a Thursday, Old
School went fifty hits at fifty after CNR give you
the time capsule topic and we reminisce together.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Yeah, every Thursday, Every Thursday, we go old school when
fifty hits on the clock, when fifty hits in life,
even though fifty is the new forty or thirty five
or something like that. Shout out to Derek Juta today. Yeah,
Derek Jeter turned fifty this week, so old school and
(26:32):
fifty hits. Today we discuss the old school og Atari.
And I bring that up because today is the day.
On this day was the unveiling the creation of the
video game console Atari. Now, I had the Atari twenty
six hundred when it came out. I was an eighties kid.
(26:54):
I was a spoiled eighties kid, and I remember being
so excited. The first game I played was I think
combat Zone, combat Zone, but it did come with combat.
I remember it came with combat, and I remember grabbing
the joystick and my dad's like, hey, would you say,
I said, my joy stick. Yeah, I know what they're
(27:15):
trying to say with the joy stick, what do you mean, Dad,
you're playing? You're playing? What was it? Pitfall Harry, Pitfall Burn? Now,
all those games captivated us in the eighties, but the
question today based on the anniversary of Atar, the original Atari?
What year Rich nineteen seventy two, nineteen seventy the original Atari? Yeah,
(27:40):
this is when it essentially was like created. Yeah, like
we asked you this. Of all those old school crappy games,
especially Atari, which ones are still fun to play? Yeah?
Which ones are playable? The analogies. There's a lot of
great movies we grew up with, but only a few
stand to test the time. The classics stand the test
(28:01):
of time. Are there video games that we grow up
with that kids today would still fine enjoyable? Well, let
it be known. Everyone has their first gaming console. You
said Atari. I never owned the Atari. I have no
clue of these games you speak of my first video
game console. I was a little boy and I got
Nintendo Anies with Mario and Duck Hunt on the same game.
(28:21):
And uh so I'm a Nintendo say game. But you
didn't call it Mario. You call it Mario. You're from
the East Coast, Souber Mario, Super Mario golf. But there
are games that stand the test of time, Like you said,
movies and uh, we'll take your feedback. Next, what old
school video games could still be played today with enjoyment?
(28:43):
Pick is in, so we wait for the Pistons, then
Celtics Lakers. Ah, they made their pick, So Celtics on
the clock. Ooh, all right, so stay tuned for some
breaking news. What's gonna happen with the Lakers, Brownie James
and more. Plus hero moments. There's a hero and baseball.
There's a hero and we're gonna get to that. We're
(29:04):
gonna talk some hero moments plus later today an hour
from now on. Over promise our bonus podcast. Pooka Nikua.
That's gonna be fun. They're gonna play is it Hoktua
or Nikua? And he's serious, We are gonna play that.
We are gonna play hope he plays along with Pooka
Akua on Fox Sports Radio's YouTube page right after the show.
But it's old school and fifty hits rich that's what
we're talking about right now, no doubt. And by the way,
(29:25):
Yukon's cam Spencer went to Detroit with that pick.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
So nice.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Before we get to the old school phone calls eight seven,
seven nine nine on Fox. We're talking about those old
school video games that stand the test of time, because
today is the anniversary in nineteen seventy two. On this day,
Atari was invented, Atari was unleashed, and uh and Mike,
(29:50):
who runs this place, was wrong. He's like, what was
the first game combat? And I said Pong and he goes, no, no, no, Well,
anything i'm seeing says pop Pong was the first. Yeah,
there was a just a little unit of Pong. You're
a The twenty six hundred came with Combat, which is
what I had, And I correct myself. The first game
I ever played, because I remember it was like magic
(30:10):
when I put it on my TV for the first
time was Commando Raid. But it doesn't matter, because here's
the point. Those games were fun. And even though we've
come so far in video games, what we've what we've
gained in technology and graphics and and how great it looks,
I think we've lost in fun. These games were so
(30:31):
fun to play. I think what we lost was simple fun.
Simple like game games now are so much better, but
they're complex. You got to really invest time and effort
throwing a headset. You're playing for hours at a time,
competing saving games.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
You have to read the direction. Watch a YouTube.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Days of playing one game of double dribble that was
so simple. That was simple. Hey you popping blades of
steel for a quickie raads, so we lost that. My
best impression is Kung Fu? Can I do, mister X,
Let's play Kung Fu? Well done? Well done? So much
like some of the movies from our childhood are fails
(31:09):
with our kids, and some are good. I tried to
show my nieces and nephew Gremlins and they're like, Uncle Rich,
this is the lamest. But back to the future. Back
to the future. They're like, yo, this is a cool movie.
That's really what we're getting at. We grew up with
a lot of games that we thought were cool, but
only the classic stand the test of time. So on
(31:30):
the anniversary when the original Atari came out, most of
us had twenty six hundred. But which games from the
past would still be fun to play today? A lot
of them are sports games. You started with Atario, I
told you I started with Nintendo. I was probably six
or seven, and Santa put it under the tree. Nintendo
(31:51):
with the Duck Hunt Super Mario. Did you have a
rob the Robot? I did not shyro mighte. I didn't
have the power Glover or anything. And my Mom's like,
you don't need that. But I was just in Colorado,
remember like a month ago, and my nephew has what
is it done? Nintendo Switch, which you have the option
to get all the old school games. Yeah, and I
(32:12):
was like, yo, you got Mike Tyson's punch Out. He goes,
let me look. He played it, and he was serious
with me because he would make fun of me if
he could. He's like, yeah, this is actually sort of fun.
So I think Mike Tyson's punch Out because it's just
simple fighting, you versus the guys. You work your way
up to Mike Tyson. I think Tyson's punch Out stands
(32:32):
the test attack, and there were patterns that you had
to figure out and follow, like how do you beat
King Hippo. I gotta hit him in the belly and
then the head, and yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
I would say, like good hip hop music, it was
ahead of its time.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Agreed. Agreed, Like I remember when I saw Mike Tyson's
punch Out for the first time for Nintendo and I
was like, Wow, we're in the future now, So again,
which ones stay in the testa time? Would be still
fun to play today for a kid, the ones we
grew up with. Well, we'll go to your feedback, but
Dann Byer, do you have breaking news or thoughts on
video games?
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Breaking news, guys, breaking news from Fox Sports.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
All right, guys, are you ready for this?
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
According to multiple reports, the Los Angeles Lakers will select
Bronnie James with the fifty fifth overall pick in the
twenty twenty four NBA draft. The Athletic and Bleacher Report
reporting that Bronnie James will be picked by the Lakers
at number fifty five.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
That is pretty pretty pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Kind of expected that.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
I don't tell you what we expected it, but I
get a feeling of, Man, that's nice to hear. It
really is. It's like, who gets to live that dream?
But you know what, you could say James, you could
say Kwannie, you could say lame. But you know what,
don't be jealous that someone's living their dream right now.
You know, Gonzaga's Anton Watson went to the Celtics, so
they didn't play any games. Lakers are technically still on
the clock. But you heard dB sources are saying, Ronnie,
(33:57):
do we have a TV with this? Hon? Is it
even on? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (34:00):
On right now? But the news of the pick hasn't.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Oh correct, Yeah, can someone flip it on one of
the teams the draft is on? It just hasn't been
announced yet, Yeah, on one of the TV's in here? Oh,
there is that it right? Yes? Is it right here?
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Right?
Speaker 1 (34:10):
And we have Panama vers USA? And I think it's
a special moment, really is Lebron haters would disagree, But
when we saw Ken Griffy Junior play with his dad,
that's few and far between. You rarely see things like this,
and it's nice. Most players, like I said, their kids
don't even ever get to see them play.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
They get to play together. You want to chase it,
you want to talk about one extreme to the other.
Last night, the Lakers were trending because of connect and
even Laker haters loved the pick like ooh steal of
the draft, And so the Lakers were getting a big
pat on the back just a week or so after
all the JJ Reddick and Hurley mess and all that,
(34:54):
and now today I feel like the you know, sucker
fish are going to come back up for the low
hang fruit.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Well they can. But the Lakers, you know, from the
outside looking in, if you want to be real about it,
one because they got the guy they wanted, and they
got the guy that they wanted. Yeah, you know from
the perspective Danny of you got the shooter you wanted
in connect and let's be honest, this is the end
of the second round. This is it. This is the
end of the draft. There's only two picks below this, right,
(35:21):
the three pick possible catastrophe that Dan Byer was saying
was possible. So I mean, unless you thought there was
someone that they could have snagged at pick fifty five
that would have made a difference in a Lakers playoff run, yeah,
then drafting Bronni is the good idea you have. But
clearly no other team thought he was worth that. But
you know that's another way to look at I love this,
(35:42):
and I love how the Lakers are milking the clock
like they don't know this is.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
This is actually part of the great drama because ESPN
has this broadcast. So the insiders, Shams from The Athletic
and Chris Haynes from Bleacher Report and TNT have already
reported this, Woje cannot because he's sitting on set with
the ESPN waiting for them to make the announcement.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Official that he can't drop a bomb.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Yes, that's exactly it, and it's the only pick that
that mattered. But they need it for their uh, for
their TV purposes, StEB, what's your.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
You know?
Speaker 3 (36:20):
I my favorite team is a situation where I think
a lot of people wonder why the brother of the
best player is on the roster, with Giannis's brother being
on the Bucks roster. But I think that's different than
than Lebron's situation of just doing a solid for Lebron.
I don't think that the pick really matters overall, but
(36:43):
I I just yeah, I I.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
I don't love it. What if it goes the way
what if it goes the way of Tommy Lesorda doing
the Piazza family a favor and it ends up being
the biggest we've seen I've seen solids payoff before. Yeah,
I mean, that's the once in a lifetime thing that
people don't know. BackStar was it Lesorda and the Piazza
family friends and they did a sort of a solid
and drafted Mike Piazza and like the last round or something.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
Yeah, it was like fifty fifth or thirty first or
whatever round. It was one of the greatest catchers ever. Yeah,
but it wasn't the second round. And I know there's
only two rounds in this draft and a lot of
these guys aren't going to see the light of day
of the NBA. But still, I just I said earlier
today that if Lebron was a twenty member, you know,
(37:26):
a twenty year member of the Cavaliers and they did
a solid, awesome What.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Is thatdam Silver doing today that he can't appear on this?
Is he having lunch with someone?
Speaker 2 (37:34):
Well?
Speaker 1 (37:35):
The I mean, this is Mark Tatum's time to shine.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
So there it is. The pick is official.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Sure, there it is. Now it's finally on TV. Guys,
So you got the inside early scoop from Dan Bayer
and Danny g you're the resident Laker guy. How do
you feel about it? Lebron's happy, Maybe there's some potential there.
What are you thinking? I'm okay with it. I agree
with what you you're in.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Initial reaction was, hey, they got their guy yesterday, and
so this pick they got the guy for Lebron, their
most coveted player. So it's fine, and I think Laker
Nation is going to be fine with it.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
I'll tie it to my favorite team, forty nine ers,
different sport. But hear me out, what made Trey Lance
stinking not hurt so much that mister irrelevant rock Party
ended up being so much better than we all could
have imagined. Again, connect being a guy that sort of
felter you in the draft and everyone's like, that's the
(38:32):
sharpshooter that the Lakers need for Lebron and ad to
kick it out to the fact that you got him,
and everyone's saying, Lakers got to steal in the first round.
This doesn't hurt anyone, doesn't hurt anybody. Agency hasn't Lebron happy?
And hey, from all we know, he steps up. I
mean you never know. You never know how he plays
with with his dad or maybe he just finds himself
(38:54):
in the NBA. Who knows. By the way, can we
get on Twitter watch has Lebron tweeted yet like ye
about dreams baby?
Speaker 2 (39:01):
I guess yeah, funny you say that. I was just looking.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Yeah, I was gonna say where. I mean, he has
to have it on seid draft has been written right
of that tweet. I'm still a proud moment for the family. Absolutely,
and we'll keep you posted on that. Lebron crying on
camera right now like Mice my son Ronnie to the
Lakers at fifty five. So back to old school in
fifty hits. And if you want to share your thoughts
(39:24):
on that, by all means, please do eight seven, seven
ninety nine on Fox at Covino and Rich. But we're
talking on the anniversary of Atari. The original Atari came
out in seventy two on this day again. I got
the twenty six hundred when I was a kid. But
of course I loved Nintendo growing up. What are the
games that stood the test of time? What are the
classics that a kid who is bored by everything today's
(39:50):
kid bored by everything and anything you want to show
them because you thought it was cool. Which ones are
they still willing to play? Based on the fun level?
We said, Mike Tyson's punch Out, it's classic. We do
it then, I think I'm not surprised by that. I
got another one. Oh, I don't know if anyone's gonna
say this one. I got two of them actually that
stand out to me. Okay, these are my two answers,
and I know there's more, and we leave that to
you eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox at Cavino
(40:12):
and Rich. Again, we're not saying these games compete with
the graphics and the and the you know, ridiculous, But
on a fun level, I think the kids could still
appreciate it. Like if you're playing with your kids or
niece or nephew, would they say, like I said, Tyson's
Punch Out. My nephew said, yeah, this is fun. It
is a fun game. I'm going RBI Baseball because it
was my all time favorite game. The graphics weren't as
(40:33):
cool as basses love to do whatever, Bro, But RBI,
as far as fun factor, was a fun game. It
wasn't meant to look cool. I loved RBI Baseball. I
think a kid could vibe with that if they're playing
with their dad, like, yeah, that'll play in some RBI.
I think that game game will stand at that as
the time I want. I want to agree with you
(40:53):
because it meant so much to me. RBI Baseball bases loaded.
But when you see like MLB the show, kids are
gonna look at RB Baseball and be like, hey, that's
all right. I think RBI Baseball was more fun than
bases loaded, and the fun factor would translate. I don't know, hey,
leave it to debate. In my last answer, contra okay,
with the code of course, with up, updown, down, left, right, left, right,
(41:15):
BA select star for two players, play with your kid. Look,
what a kid remembers most is that the adult, whoever
it may be, the parent, the uncle, the friend, is
willing to play with them at that moment. You play
some contra with your kid, they would love that. That's
like Bron. That's like Lebron play with Brownni.
Speaker 2 (41:32):
You know one that's inside David Busters right now. But
they went big. They put it on the big screen
Space Invaders.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
Space Invaders on Altari and well arcades first. But yeah,
a lot of those old school eighties arcades we had
the crappy Atari version, and Space Invaders is one of them,
for sure. The Moon Patrols of the World, which one
stand the test of time. I again, I admire the
gusto of RBI Baseball in your love of basis load
(42:00):
in all those games. But again MLB the show would
make a kid say what do you want me to play?
You could say that for every no game that's out now.
Every new game makes all these old games look terrible.
I thought, is, well, there's a lot of fun to
be had with NBA JAM. It's two on two, it's
pretty easy to play. But when some kids playing NBA
two K whatever like it's going to be tough to sell.
(42:23):
How could you say you don't think that modern day
boxing games make Mike Tyson's punch Out look silly. All
of the games make Yes three year's games looks silly.
But I'm gonna give you two sports games, I'm sorry,
two non sports games that I just think because they're comprehensive,
easy to play, and easy to understand. That's why I
chose RBI. Lanni Pofo, all right, I disagree with you,
(42:49):
and I'll tell you why you're comparing a sport you're
allowed to, but all your reasonings are why I picked RBI.
Sports games now would make an old sports game, for
the most part, seem weird. Now when you're playing a
complex game like a Halo or GTA or any of
these like, you know where you're playing for hours and hours.
The simplified version of that would be a left to
(43:11):
right sonic The Hedgehog Super Mario, like just a simple
like beat this level, move on to the next one.
I think that might get an old a kid like nostalgic, like, Dad,
this is what you played. Let me try Mario, Let
me try Sonic the Hedgehog. Guess again, you're jumping over things,
collecting coins or rings. I think those type of games. Well,
in that case, Zelda's got to be in the conversation
(43:31):
because it was one of the first games that you
could go up, down, left, right, You had a whole map,
You had a whole It had memory right, which most
games didn't. You could sort of pause it and remember
where you were. So again, we're going to your phone
calls eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox based on
the Atari Anniversary, which ones are still fun to play today? Well,
(43:53):
think about it on this day in nineteen seventy two,
before everyone in this room was born. It changed the world.
We talk about how you know the Super Bowl became
a thing in our parents' childhood. Ufc mm A wasn't
a thing until we were like young guys. Wrestling, hip
hop music, video games. Yeah, like you said, in the seventies,
your mom or dad was playing pong. Yeah, I mean
(44:14):
things have come a long way. Oh really. You know what,
as we go to the calls, I had thought about
the Bronni thing. You know, we're looking to see if
Lebron tweets. I don't think he will because that would
be stealing his kids moment. You know, Like if he
tweets it, it's like, look at him, Yo, he guess
what I me Bron, me Bron, all about me Lebron.
(44:35):
He's I think Lebron is holding back a little, is excited,
and he's like, you know what, this is Bronni's news
to share, not for me to be like proud, because
he could very well go on Twitter and Instagram right
now and be like proud Papa, you know, dreams come true.
But that's that's not his Later. Yeah, he's got to
be interviewed about it. I'm sure. Yeah, so let it
breathe There'll be no there'll be no shortage of questions.
(44:56):
That'll be great if he does that. All right, We're
going through the phones now, video games, old school and
fifty hits throwback. Thursday, Cavino and Rich on Fox Sports Radio.
Who do we got trip in Vegas? You're on with CNR.
Speaker 9 (45:08):
Hey buddy, Hey, gentlemen. Good didn't good to speak with
you all to day. Absolutely a couple of things. Uh
one about next time y'all are in Vegas? Real quick
on the subject, I would say, big Doug, possibly that's
super simple pole position. And then of course when Kalko
Vision came out with Donkey Kong, that was like exactly,
it's like the video like.
Speaker 1 (45:29):
The yeah if the Atari went stunk the Colicosi guess.
Speaker 2 (45:34):
Yeah, he said pole position. In the early eighties, that
was one we lined up for. Had the steering week, yes,
not only at the Arcade in Pizza parlors, but then
Atari twenty six hundred had their bad version of it.
Speaker 1 (45:46):
We had rad Racer on ne ees remember that? And
what did Trip say about Vegas? Next time we're there.
He's taking us as spearmout right now? Yes, Hey, thanks Trip.
Let's go to David in Missouri.
Speaker 9 (45:55):
Hey Dave, Hey Dave, Hey guys, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 10 (45:58):
Longtime caller.
Speaker 9 (45:59):
First time I gotta say, no one's mentioned Mario Kart
on the Nintendo sixty four.
Speaker 3 (46:05):
You're having your boys over.
Speaker 9 (46:06):
You're drinking, you're smoking your vitamins. I mean, it's still timeless,
you know.
Speaker 1 (46:10):
I'll tell you it's and it's great to play with
your kids. We brought you know, we got the switch
in the in the den, and my kids and my
wife and I. The fact that all four of us
could play Mario Kart is a lot of fun. There
is something cool about that. I was a PlayStation kid,
so I played Crash Bandicoot Racing. That was a great
game in.
Speaker 2 (46:28):
The Crash Bandicoot franchise.
Speaker 1 (46:29):
It was those fighting games too, you know, I had
the first PlayStation. I'm older than you, but I did
have the first one. And I had techn and teching too,
lay ooh long. And I just think a lot of
those fighting games would still be fun for anybody today,
you know, even Immortal Kombat, because it was so classic
(46:51):
and so legendary. And the kids might have some sort
of idea of what that was and the significance of
the game. Again, they might find an interest a fighting
game as simple as it gets. Okay to I, I'm
not a big gamer. I got too much going on.
I don't know how you could balance life sports, kids
(47:12):
work everything, NBA gamer, but people do it. My nephew
showed me this and I thought it was pretty cool.
So there's gamers that are like yet duh, Rich of course,
have you seen Super Smash Brothers, Cavino, I've heard of it.
Let me see it. It's well, it's it's like almost
like a street Fighter Mortal Kombat game, but you pick
characters from any video game, like you can be like,
I'll be Little Mac and Little Mike could Fat.
Speaker 5 (47:33):
Francia's Super Smash Brothers. All I I was just like
never good at it, so.
Speaker 1 (47:36):
Super Smash Brothers, like you could be like, all right,
I'm gonna be uh, I'll be Pikachu. All right, I'll
be I'll be Little Mac from Mike Tyson's punch Out.
And it's every character from every game, and they got
their own little skills and stuff. That'd be mighty bomb Jack.
I'm sure you could away like it's like it's way
every character. That's pretty cool. Man. Let's go to Kelly.
What's up, dude, South Dakota. Which one stood or stand
(47:57):
the test of time today? What's the problem?
Speaker 10 (48:01):
A previous caller took my N sixty four cart. I
know we're talking on any sanatauri no no no.
Speaker 1 (48:08):
I mean, if it's all hard, it's all good.
Speaker 10 (48:10):
But along with cart GoldenEye. I mean there was it was.
It was, like you said, getting together with your buddies
playing playing cart GoldenEye, just four on four, just just
just having a good time.
Speaker 1 (48:21):
I'm gonna I'm gonna defer to Iowa Sam. Is he
right on this one? I played so much Golden Eye?
What was it?
Speaker 5 (48:26):
The r CP ninety, like the big machine gun. There's
all these fun weapons and proximity minds, the soundtrack.
Speaker 1 (48:33):
So Danny g hit on something too, though, you know,
a lot we're focusing on, like the fun factor still translates. Yeah,
but a lot of these maybe have to do with
the fact that they were ahead of their time, and
that's why they get a little bit of an advantage.
Pass Yeah, free pass now.
Speaker 2 (48:48):
Yeah. Did either of you guys on Nintendo play Metroid? Yeah,
that was ahead of its time. Yeah, we played that
game for hours. If you got little kids. Now, my
thought of when you think of what old school games
would translate. I keep saying, sometimes simplistic will work, like
a Mario card or it's Sonic the Hedgehog. It's so
(49:08):
easy to follow.
Speaker 1 (49:09):
I know my kids are little, but we play Mario
Party all the time because all the games are pretty easy. Like, no,
I actually agree with that, you know not. I'm not
a fan of games where you know the character too,
so there's intrigue, there's familiarity a browser, Yeah, they still
recognize those characters.
Speaker 2 (49:27):
Rich On the Atari twenty six hundred. Have you ever
heard of the game of Warlords? What you just said
about a lot of people being able to play it once?
It was the first game where all of us in
the early mid eighties could have a corner of the screen.
It was four controllers and there was like a force
field kind of around each corner, a paddle for a
(49:48):
digital paddle for each player, and a pong going and
like you tried to chip away at their force the
plow them up in the corner of the screen.
Speaker 1 (49:56):
That reminds me of combat because that was the only
game I had any use for the paddles because it
came at paddles. And uh, you're right. I don't remember
this game, Danny, but it looks cool. I looked it
up just now. Hey, a little fun fact about your boy, Cavino.
I don't know if you know this, but I'm on
five different My voice is on five different GTAs. How
(50:16):
cool is that?
Speaker 2 (50:17):
Going?
Speaker 1 (50:17):
A cookie. Yeah, a lot of people. You know what, No,
it's weird because I like to think we've had a nice,
long career in broadcasting. Rich You're You're one thing that
people bring up to me all the time. It's like, yo, dude,
you're on Grand Theft Auto. I don't do anything major.
I'm no major character. But yeah, you could hear me
on five different ones. So when you got kids that
are influenced by these advanced games like that, it's kind
(50:40):
of tough to pull their interest on some of these
old school basic ones. You know, you said bass was
loaded in RBI Baseball. I'm going different angle on this
because this game was way ahead of its time, way
ahead of its time. A lah. What Danny G said,
do you remember Baseball Stars and you could build the
players you can name them my My Baseball Stars was
(51:02):
something called Baseball Simulator one thousand.
Speaker 2 (51:04):
I loved that.
Speaker 1 (51:04):
There was a game Baseball Stars. Yeah, I remember it
where I could say I could name the players on
my team like Sam, Danny G. Cavino, And you could
do that with Baseball Simulator. You could give them strengths
and weaknesses like oh, I'm gonna give Cavino will have
all the power. Yeah. I thought that was cool because
when you were a kid, you're like, whoa wa wait,
I could name the guys on this game after my
little team.
Speaker 2 (51:23):
It had the cartoon of the big muscle bound hitter.
Speaker 1 (51:28):
I totally remember that one. But again, oh, I'm telling you,
I want to I want to one up you with
Baseball Simulator one thousand, because you could do trick at
bats the batters like each dude. You could give them
like a missile hit or a bomb hit, and then
you could rename all the guys. And I used to like, yeah,
I totally remember Baseball Stars. Some of them were super fun,
(51:51):
as basic as they appear nowadays.
Speaker 3 (51:54):
Dan Byer, what's up Baseball Simulator? Could you play like
on the Moon? Like, yes, yes, I love.
Speaker 1 (52:01):
I loved that game that you could play on the Moon?
And he like rocketscept Did everyone in this room have
the one friend who was like the spoiled kid who
had every one of these games? Like I hate to
say rich, but it was me. I'm spoiled kid, yourself hatable.
I know I was gonna say, we all have that
one kid, and I'll give you the commonalities. The one
(52:21):
kid that you knew who was spoiled. I was like
the Mexican Richie rich Bro. He had every Nintendo game,
he was allowed to order every like WrestleMania, Tyson Fight,
like they always had the pay per views. And it
was also the kid that his dad had Playboy for
some reason, Like it was like that family I didn't have.
I wanted that I had scrambled Playboy channel, but it
(52:42):
did not have it. But I always feel like the
rich kid had cable the or the elite. I was rich.
I was just super spoiled. Panama's playing huh Panama USA
one one right now? Panama rich Oystoe was canon by dad.
(53:03):
As a kid, I was always like can and Ball
and Kevin. I was like, what are you talking about?
He's not Cannabo Bro. So we grew up on the
East Coast. We're in Los Angeles now. But if you
grew up on the East Coast spot, do you have
any friend who went to Villanova for college. I had
a couple friend who went to Nova. Of course, I
wonder how many Villanova Knicks fans there are, because that
(53:23):
must be like a dream come true that you got
four dudes from Villanova on the Knicks it really is
like I can't remember any other time where it was
that one college heavy on a team. But I'm saying that,
you know, if people don't know, if they're you know,
living under a rock. Villanova's outside of Philadelphia. Yeah, good one, Tony.
So Villanova isn't that far from New York City. We're
(53:45):
talking about two hours or less. So there's plenty of
people that could very well be New York Knicks fans
and Villanova alum And that's got to be really cool
for them because I can't tell you. I'll tell you firsthand.
I'm a Syracuse guy. I don't know anyone Syracuse that
ever ended up on my niners or you know, any
team I rooted for.
Speaker 2 (54:04):
Man, Villanova has the entire old squad back together again.
Speaker 1 (54:08):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (54:08):
And you see the old clip I sent you guys
of stephen A back in the day saying Villanova doesn't
have any NBA talent on that roster.
Speaker 1 (54:17):
And now it's Kurt stephen A is like, that's what
I'm talking about. Baby, Hey, we all you know it's funny.
Take the receipts. Most people are wrong, All right, heroes,
let's talk about this ball boy of justice later early,
but luckily they have over promised. Our bonus podcast with
Pooka Nicole. We're gonna play was it Nicoua or Hawktua
(54:41):
with Pooka Nakoula on Fox Sports Radio's YouTube page. I
get royalties right in just nine minutes. Now. The hero
of the day, Enrique Iglesia style goes to longtime Dodgers
bat boy Javier Herrera, who made the amazing line drive
(55:01):
foul ball snag that saved Otani's life. And by the way,
not even exaggerating, that could have been bad news. That
could have been a broken nose, hitting the head, concussion,
eye socket, that could have been nasty hit him in
the throat. This kid snagged a line drive. Did you
see it? I did not. It reminds me of you
(55:22):
ever see a bat flying to the crowd and the
guy prevented it from hitting a woman like he snagged
a bat. Those are moments, dude, I've seen these, and
this is one of the best ones I've ever seen,
especially when consider the guy he was protecting. Sho Hey
Otani game in baseball.
Speaker 2 (55:42):
Dodgers record, by the way, ten straight games with an RBI.
Speaker 1 (55:46):
That's incredible. So He's the hero of the day, and
we all have our hero stories. Rich. I remember one
time I was working by a pet store that was
on fire, and I ran inside it grabbed all the snakes,
I grabbed all the dogs. I'm sure you're not talking
about Pee Wee's big adventure. Oh wait, my bad, that
was pee Wee Herman. But I was walking by a
jumpy jump at a farmer's market one time and it
(56:09):
was like this big giant batman jumpy jump and all
his little kids are jumping in it, and it started
to deflate on top all the kids, and I'm pretty
sure flames broke out. I'm pretty sure it was flames,
some sort of explosion, and it started sinking on all
these kids and the parents were freaking out. Dude. I
ran in there, like p W. Herman, and I started
handing out the kids, like here's another one, here's another one.
(56:32):
I saved. I ran in there, I didn't hesitate and
saved all the kids from the deflated jumpy jump. And
they really treated me that I was a hero. It
was awesome, true story. The story saved kids, Steve Kevino, Dude,
the kids were freaking out, saved them dancy dance hero,
don't be mad that you don't have a story, Jumpy Jump,
let me here. By the time you were here, Jumpy Jump,
(56:53):
I was like, hey, man, bouncy house, bounce house, what
do you call them? You were about to go home
with this really ugly girl and I was like, comno,
let's well, let's get to sell the pizza. That is true,
save big mistake, yes it now. I want to hear
your hero stories there. One time Spot was gonna call
his ex girlfriend. I'm like, give me your phone. I
want to hear your Javier Herrera stories. You can hit
(57:16):
us up at Covino and Rich at Fox Sports Radio,
or maybe we continue tomorrow because we do have a
guest in six minutes, so yeah, uh the Fox Sports
Radio YouTube page. Gonna have some fun with Pook and
the Kua, and we're gonna break down who is the
greatest living baseball player now that we lost Willie Mays.
That's all coming up on over promise, So hang tight
(57:38):
for that and we'll see you back here tomorrow as well.
Until then, there chee baby, see you in the over
Promised land. Let's go
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