The Best Of Covino & Rich

C&R are not impressed by OKC's celebration last night! Why the lack of excitement? The guys take calls from all over the country about it. KD to Rockets was also underwhelming? The show laughs about "The Big Dumper" & "The UV!" What's up with Kelsey Plum complaining about an autograph seeker? There's a Jay-Z rumor that has everyone talking! Plus, 'SHAQ DIESEL TRIVIA,' & throwback 'Skins! 

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, thanks for listening to the best of Cavino and
Rich podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Be sure to catch us live every day.

Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Day on the iHeartRadio app I searching the FSR. Give
me an honest opinion. Are you guys exhausted? I am exhausted.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
But you know what, I made the smart move of
saying all I did today was Fox Sports Radio. We
did not do our other podcast. We did not do
any serious except stuff. This was this is it I made.
I made the decision to make it a light day
on purpose. Yeah, so that helps. So feeling pretty good
and excited to be here. I hope you had a
great weekend and OKC thunder sort a weekend.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah, but you know what, not that graduation w e ak.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Hey, you know, Danny, we're going to talk about that.
And by the way, I would say, am that was
your first big CAVENO on Rich event, that you have
a good time, because I feel like everyone was love
and I was. I had a great time.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
I went with you guys to the Eugene, Oregon Graduate
Hotels Remote and that was like a little taste of it.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
And then this was like times ten.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
It was my first time in Vegas outside of driving
through it in the middle, like in the middle of
the night. I had a great time. I had a
great time. Carl Carls are awesome, man. It's what a
community you guys have built.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Carls.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
By the way, Covino and Rich Carls, I thought you
ate at Carls j Carl's in charge. And by the way, yeah,
the party wasn't at Carls Junior. It was at Circa
in Vegas and we were at Stadium Swim and again
our Friday broadcast was lying from there, so catched a podcast.
But this is the last time we're going to say
it because we celebrated twenty years of Cavino and Rich.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Why the last time because we're still.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
The youngest in the game and I feel like that
dates us a little bit. Remember we started doing our
show when we were twelve. So hey, if you were there,
we we thank you. If not, we'll see you next
time because we always bring the party to you guys,
and thank you. Fox Sports Radio Nation still recovering it
was a party. Indeed, I was very impressed by this.
I was very impressed. Yeah, we went all out. It

(02:05):
was a great Honestly, I'm just so like humbled but
also like pleased at the great people that our show
brings together. Like not many weirdos at all, no fights,
no drama, just a lot of people having fun and
a good mix of our old school listeners because we've
been doing it for so long and a lot of
the new friends we've met along the way from Fox

(02:26):
Sports Radio. So you guys are always welcome to our events.
And again we hope to bring the show to you.
We like taking a show on the road too, so hey,
coming soon. We got a party again. This isn't the
last to round by any means, this is the start yep.
So that being said, Sam brought the party, We brought
the excitement, Danny g giving out prizes, dancing, having fun.

(02:48):
I think we may have had more fun than the
actual Thunder winning the NBA Finals to us, meeting and
greeting and having fun and hanging with all the supporters
of our show. Way more fun than the celebration yesterday.
Okahoma was any Thunder couldn't even open champagne bottles or
I'm just doing it out there for speculation, like there

(03:09):
is a sense today of maybe relief, right, like, man,
that was crazy just got in yesterday. There's relief in
the air today, maybe his sense of relief like I
am seeing Caruso celebrating lots of hogs, maybe after a
long season like that. It's the weakest thing I've ever seen.
In fact, I saw the perfect compilation and play along

(03:31):
with me only because sure I saw someone isolate the
winning moments of all four major sports over the last year.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Oh so all four.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
Hot dog eating or no Joey Chestnut not included, including
the Panthers recent celebration, But man, I should have included
the fifth Joey Chestnut in a week from now will
be taking the stage again.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
But take a listen.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
We'll start with the World Series and just listen to
not only the excitement, but I'm gonna let you know
by watching the teams are all jumping on each other
having fun.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Start the Los Angeles You're Doctors Series. So Dodgers win
the World Series, Everyone's piling on for the second time.
The Fix Lombardi Trophy is.

Speaker 4 (04:18):
Headed to Philadelphia. Eagles flying in Super Bowl fifty nine.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
Ain't going nuts the Panthers to.

Speaker 5 (04:25):
Get to set great.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Panthers fans going wild?

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Protection unbelievable, right, and then that's all the Patterers were there.

Speaker 6 (04:38):
Second Scout, the first time the NBA champion brosides at
Oklohola City, the story book season, it's complete.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
They just honestly are shaking each other's hands. There's no
excitement from the team. Of course, the fans are pumped.
It's their first there were championship as an organization. Bro,
I've seen you get more excited playing basketball twenty four
hour finis. But it was your standard, bro, hug bring
it in again. A few players look pretty pumped about it,

(05:12):
because I'm seeing the highlights as we speak. But for
the most part, it was your standard, bring it in,
hug it out, shake hands. And maybe they're just too
cool for the room. Maybe they're exhausted, maybe it's relief.
Maybe it's just not as exciting as the other championships.
But you remember other NBA champions pumping their fists. I
do you remember the celebrations of guys like Kobe Bryant

(05:35):
and Michael Jordan holding up the trophy, going nuts pumping
the fist to the crowd going crazy. Just the most
lacklusteress I've ever seen in my life. Well, we Saidahoma
City Sun. The thunder just proved while we all along,
We're like, this is the weakest ass team to win
a championship. How he said, from the start, the biggest
criticism was lack of star power. Right, But we did
get to a game seven, We did have drama. We

(05:57):
did see Haliburton come out strong, scored none points, played
seven minutes, seven strong minutes, and went down. That really
maybe set the tone of the disappointment in the game
or the vibe of the game, because when you want
to be the best, you got to beat the best.
Did they really beat Indiana's best? But again, that's just

(06:19):
part of the game. I'm not taking anything away, mind you,
for Okac's victory here. That's just how it panned out.
That's how it played out. Haliburton pushed himself. The injuries
probably connected to the right calfstrain that he dealt with.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
I'm no physical therapist. I can only assume that's part
of it. So I'm not trying to take away from
their victory. But maybe that was sort of disappointing for everybody. Oh,
he was just boring, that's all. I mean, that's Borram.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
I'm giving you reasons.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
You're with your assessment boring, that's it, because I have
a backup. I wrote down my notes here. Okay, great,
but again, it was a game seven. It didn't pan
out as close as it could have been. Would the
Pacers have won, We'll never know. If Halliburton would have
kept up that pace, it would have been a lot closer,

(07:06):
that's for sure.

Speaker 7 (07:08):
For the Gamblers, I think they would have at least
covered that eight and a half. But what I'm saying
they had a chance to get within nine there with
three minutes left.

Speaker 8 (07:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
What I'm not debating though, is what our eyes all saw,
you know, that whole home sort of maybe that's just
the vibe of these young NBA players in a lot
of ways, like, you know, very swaggy, very too cool
for the room. Dude, So I think I've ever seen Listen,
let's think of the most exciting moments of this NBA season.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
Let's go back.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
All right, let's go back for a second. I'm gonna
be back.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
Do do take me back. I know you're a big
Frank Stalone fans. Take me back, Doude, take me back.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
I'm gonna take you back to one of the last
times we're in Vegas before our big party. We were
there for a big fight weekend and all the rumblings
on the casino floor.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
Luca Luca, Luca Lakers. Luca gets traded to the Lake.
Big moment.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
Dallas then ends up getting the number one pick in
the NBA Draft. Big moment, the Knicks beating the Celtics.
Big moment, Halliburton doing that, the choke, the Reggie Miller
to the Knicks, big moment, I'm not Halliburton's dad.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
Big moment, hal the.

Speaker 9 (08:21):
Burton's dad on the court in Giannis's face was a
pretty big moment that goes to show you where the.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
Excitement level was. Though I'm just thinking, oh wait.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
Speaking of excitement level, I don't want to take it
from your little notes that you made, please keep adding,
but that whole Knick series was pretty exciting. The run
that they had, all the celebrity fans that were there,
all the old school Knicks that came to represent There
was a lot of excitement in that series and their run.
The excitement that the Minnesota Timberwolves and Anthony Edwards brought

(08:53):
exciting Seeing the veterans like Lebron and Steph Curry fall
in the playoffs, Steph got hurt. I haven't named one
thing about the team that won it all because they're
boring as could be. Well, and I mean, I'll name
this ASGA goes down an elite company as an MVP
of finals MVP. They actually one, not just won their

(09:15):
first ever as an organization. He scored twenty nine points
in the final. It came down to what people often say,
the team with the best player usually pulls it off
into Game seven. He showed he was the best and
he brought it. So you could say I didn't like
the excitement level, or you could say, man, how impressive
was their title run? Maybe they just made it look easy, dude,

(09:37):
they were the best team all season. I'm just giving
you the maybies.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
I'm with you.

Speaker 9 (09:40):
I saw what I saw and Sawny but from my eyes.
But you're also not an OKC fan. That might be
OKC fans or real pure basketball fans listening right now.
They're like, you're crazy, dude. That was an elite team
and they played like it.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
Listen.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
I've never claimed to be a big NBA guy, so
you could possibly put me in that category of the
casual fan of the NBA that really likes excitement and
I want to see some drama, some fun and you
know what, of course there's gonna be other shows and
people that are like, well, you just don't love the
NBA then, because this is greatness was demonstrated, right, Just

(10:14):
give me that. Then I feel like I represent more people.
Get the rating stunk, The final stunk. It's stink stank
stunk well, and again I was clued in. We were
fresh from Vegas. I get get in just in time
to watch the game. Halliburton goes down. It wasn't as
exciting after that because you knew you weren't getting the
full battle that you were signed up for, and you

(10:36):
sat down to one. Last night, I was at my
daughter's dance recital. The dad next to me was watching
on his phone and I was peeking over his shoulder.
We had this little thing going on, like, you know,
I won't you know, like keep it low, keep the
the the brightness down.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
I got you.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
Halfway through the second half He's like, yeah, I rather
watch these little kids dance. He turned it off, and
I'm like, I'm with you, turned it off, all right,
so he'd rather watched eight year old's tap dance.

Speaker 9 (11:04):
I mean, Danny g I know straight up agrees with
Rich too. But it probably has to do with the
fact that Halliburton went down. Man, Yeah, it wasn't the
same game after that.

Speaker 7 (11:12):
It would have been a very close ending, in my opinion,
in the second half. Had Haliburton still been on the court,
and he.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
Has proven that he's a big moment guy, we all
thought that, you're like, ah, man, there goes a possible
big moment, close, maybe finish, maybe something dramatic.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
And the Thunders still.

Speaker 7 (11:29):
Might have went on their run in the third quarter
the way they did, but we've seen Halliburton lead big
charges back and come back, so I think they would
have at least gotten back in within five points or something.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
And then they're super young team. Congrats to them.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
I just feel like the lack of excitement, And I'm
sure again Dan Byer, I'm sure Doug and other people
on this network that care a lot more about the
NBA than I do, we're probably like this is a
demonstration of greatness.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
I couldn't care less.

Speaker 9 (11:53):
Would it have been better if the Pacers broke out
in dance to Bruno Mars like the Savannah bananas.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
In the second half? Is that a you're looking due?

Speaker 1 (12:02):
If they wheeled out Halliburton and it was like, yeah,
Daniel rwis is gonna fight, like if there was a moment,
but it was like a star player goes down even
when they won. Like again, that that comparisons nailed it
for me because I was trying to in my mind figure.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
Out what am I missing? Why I didn't connect?

Speaker 1 (12:21):
And then I saw that clip that someone put together
on social media of the four major champions Dodgers, Florida Panthers,
Philadelphia Eagles and now okay see the last four major
titles and to see the teammates jumping on each other
in jubilee enjoy and then you see like SGA given
like bro hugs and handshakes like I do after I
win a Tuesday night softball game.

Speaker 7 (12:42):
I did like though how Hardenstein's little infant baby had
its head bobbin in the in the.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
Celebration had a cradle of child. Yeah, mine is font
toell what's wrong with you? Mine? The fun?

Speaker 3 (12:53):
That kid, that kid that kid would have slept in
a burlap sack over his shoulder, like it's so funny,
like a child that age can sleep while it's deaf noise.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
And then when you're all because he watched Game seven,
the guy was ragged on his baby.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
No, seriously, look rich does make a solid point because
even if you have no team in the game, right,
we all tune in to watch the thrill of victory
and the agony of defeat. As you used to say, right,
you told me it was a game seven of the
WNBA I would even watch. There was really no excitement,
no excitement that we were able to see at the

(13:27):
end of the game. You know, if you if you
change the music and put it to different it looks
like they lost. If you changed the crowd noise and
you just watch them, it was gonna said they lost.
You ever see someone take like Dumb and Dumber or
a comedy and make a movie trailer like it's a horror.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
Yes, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
If you put different music behind that and you take
away the crowd noise, their excitement really wasn't that visible
or noticeable. And as a casual fan, and that's who
tunes into game sevens for the most part. Of course,
the pure fans are always going to be there, but
I'm saying the major already. The fans that watched the championship,
they're watching and it was kind of boring. I don't
think the fans there were any less excited. I'm not

(14:07):
trying to take away from their celebration. I'm not trying
to take away from the history that they made. We're
just trying to say that Rich is making a point.
We all felt a little disconnected from the excitement level
of what was going on.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
That's all.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
Know what it's like, lackluster or relief is do I
ever give a woman or your kid or someone a
gift and you think they're gonna love it, Yes, and
you're waiting for the reaction.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yeah yeah, and they opened the gifts like thanks, thanks.

Speaker 1 (14:35):
So do you think that maybe it was relief for
them or just lackluster celebration. I thought SGA handled the
moment like a pro. To be honest, I loved everything
he said. He didn't show a lot of excitement, but
I loved his speech at the end. I loved how
he included the city and his teammates on everything he accomplished.

(14:56):
I like how he shared the MVP. I thought, but
I thought he nailed everything. He's maybe just not connecting
the way maybe other superstars connected for you.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
I'll tell you the shame on me. You know what
I'm guilty of.

Speaker 1 (15:11):
I'm guilty of expecting elite athletes to have personalities and
that doesn't always go hand in hand. You can't expect
the star player in any sport to also have the personality.
They're also a young guys, second youngest team in NBA
history to win a championship. But maybe, you know again,
maybe it's more relief than anything like shock, like we

(15:34):
did it, oh my god, and everyone has a different perspective.
Anthony Crusoe was saying, hey, hey, now, and Danny g
said it was tongue in cheek, but now no one
could say he didn't actually.

Speaker 9 (15:45):
Win a real one. Yeah, you know, the bubble one
he won, and now he won this one in impressive fashion.

Speaker 2 (15:51):
It's relief. Let's stop talking about it. I don't want
to fall asleep talking about the thunder.

Speaker 3 (15:55):
Can I just say I think SGA and Tyres have
both have great person and Aalei's themselves are just different.
SGA seems a little bit more serious. He's like a
little bit more talks like a leader.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
Tyre is like that too. You don't have to be nice.
That's boring as hell. It's called speculation.

Speaker 3 (16:10):
I think that I think they have like they show,
they say things that I think are at least keep
my attention a little bit. And then Tyrese, I think,
is like a I call him a classy trash talker,
like he's he's actually a really great interview if you
listen to him, like he's for an NBA player that age,
they're both what around twenty six to twenty seven or
young dudes, and for guys that age in the NBA,
they actually are give pretty good responses who speak so

(16:32):
well you.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
Know where I think, Yeah, go one on that team
will ever do a podcast.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
I promise you that.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
I think the NBA could have did a better job
of building or creating that rivalry between Halliburton and SGA,
even though there seems to be none there, Like at
least I give us the illusion that they're going head
to head and they don't like each other. I feel
like they drop the ball on that, Like you know,
everybody wants to win the final here, but like, give
me some heated sort of rivalry between those two and

(17:00):
there was none.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
There was none. I mean, sorry Dan that.

Speaker 9 (17:05):
Sometimes that's tricky though, because if you overdo it and
nobody believes it, then it seems really I just guys, honestly,
I think it comes down to you, like they don't
have it, like like like really like of as much
as you want to try and make them have it,
they don't, and it's not their fault and it's why.

(17:26):
Like I think Anthony Edwards has it, like as a
star player, like if there's we talk about face of
the League stuff, he's in Minnesota, and I felt like
there's a different feel with it.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
Like for as great as SGA is and as.

Speaker 9 (17:38):
Great as Halliburton is and all to talk about Halliburton
that and his great play rolls them to this level.
Like I don't think that SGA has it. He may
become a great, great player, but he just doesn't have
Well you know, it's very dangerous. And here's why. Because
Rich is onto something. He's the ultimate warrior.

Speaker 2 (17:54):
No, no, no, you know he is everyone.

Speaker 1 (17:55):
You know, he's a clitchko because he was so dominant,
sure and so rate and no one could beat him
it's sort of ruined boxing for ten years because he
was just a boring face for the sport. Right, So
if they go on a magnificent run and they're such
a young team, if they don't find some personality, it's
going to be boring for the NBA.

Speaker 9 (18:14):
And I know I'm gonna get the what family guy
meme or it's like this dog has hit because he
was wearing like fancy sunglasses.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
But that's true.

Speaker 9 (18:21):
There is there is something about it. You either you
have it or you don't. Then you can go in
any sport and do that.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
I have two analogies, and Kamino's boxing one was so
on point, it really was.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
But back in the day when we.

Speaker 1 (18:36):
Were kids, you remember when Vince McMahon sort of bet
on the Ultimate Warrior to take over Hogan is like
the face. And then within like six months they realized, like, yeah,
the kids don't really give a crap about the Ultimate
Warrior the way we thought they had a pivot. You
give Hull Cogan the belt back and then change all
storyline because no one cared enough about the Ultimate Warrior.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
And they bring it back to no one cares boxing.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
Clitch goes, why did people start caring about Box even
just a little bit, because Tyson Fury was a superstar personality. Yeah,
for the league's sake, you got to have some game,
but you also have to have it. But it doesn't
mean they're not going to continue this run. It's not
to take away the greatness of other people. I'll give
an analogy that's fresh on our minds.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
Camino and I.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
Had a really an amazing weekend meeting. You know, hundreds
and hundreds of hundreds of listeners that came to see
us in Vegas. It was the most humbling, beautiful thing.
And Kavino and I afterwards will be like, Yo, you
meet that guy. Because there's some people that somehow stand
out in the crowd. Danny, I'm sure you met people
you're like, Yo, that guy is a wild dude, or

(19:42):
you know that that woman was so sweet. Like it's
like casting for a reality show. Why do you think
these same knukle? What do you think the same Johnny
Bananas type show? But every show say stand out and
there's nothing about some people almost he thought that stands out. Yeah,
maybe they maybe they get a wild card on their
team just to give it some personality. Next year, you know,

(20:04):
maybe they need that, just some crazy guy, lots of
tattoos in the mohawk. I like some weird that plays.
They need a birdman on the team. That's exactly what
I was thinking, Danny. Yeah, yeah, they need something like
that to give it some extra flair. All right, so
your thoughts, Maybe maybe we're alone here.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
I thought it was.

Speaker 7 (20:26):
Also, I don't think that our show is off on
this because they just announced the OKC thunder Championship Parade
is going to be on Tuesday and the route leads
to the Ronald J. Norrick Downtown Library. It's kind of weird. Wow, Really,
I'm gonna go. I'd rather go take on a book.

Speaker 9 (20:41):
And just so you guys, with the ratings, the overall
series was down from a year ago overall, but last
night's Game seven did have over sixteen million viewers, which
is the most viewed if any NBA Finals game in
the last six years.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
That's awesome and that is great to know. Thank you,
Dan Byrie. I'm just doing this out there for again
conversation's sake. I agree with Rich we Alsow what we
saw it felt felt lackluster, but maybe like the young
cats are vibing with it the way we are not
because we have a different expectation. Right, We've seen Jordans

(21:17):
pumping his fist and jumping in the air. We've seen
all these moments. We have all these highlights in our mind.
Maybe young younger kids see it and that's their generation
and they're pumped about it in a different way.

Speaker 2 (21:29):
Was the Celtic celebration boring? That was last year? Tatum's
speech was kind of layme. We criticized it because he
got lost from and he stole it from everybody.

Speaker 9 (21:41):
And yeah, he had little pieces of three different players
speeches and one was five I think.

Speaker 2 (21:46):
Yeah, it was insane.

Speaker 9 (21:48):
Yeah, and it was also like the posing like he
tried to do the the kobe and the jacket, like
hugging the trophy.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
You know, we said it was corny. Yes, he just
Chad gpt for speech.

Speaker 1 (21:59):
Maybe we're just too critical, you know, and that's part
of what we do. But that's what I see and
that's what you get here on the show. Thank you
guys for hanging out with us. Hope you had a
nice weekend, by the way, and what an amazing weekend.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
Again.

Speaker 1 (22:12):
Got to thank everyone that came out to support us
in Vegas. Danny g Any quick observation before we get
to the game. Seven phone calls. Everyone wants to talk
about last night. Yeah, I feel like you met so
many people. Everyone wanted a little selfie with Danny g.

Speaker 7 (22:25):
I had a worker's permit to join my first radio
station when i was fifteen years old, so I've been
in radio for a long time. That's the wildest listener
driven event I've ever attended.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
Oh, it was great. It was so special. And hey,
we told you guys to come.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
Let's just say you missed our very own Monsey and
Larena at the pool party.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
Okay, because they brought the fun too. They were the
unofficial Cavino and Rich Ring girls. Oh, it was awesome.
It was a rare Yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
And by the way, I was, Sam, you were exactly
who we wanted you to be. Because someone said it.
Someone one of our listeners said, you know what we
love about Ia, Sam, He's authentic.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
I said it. You didn't say that, right, you.

Speaker 3 (23:02):
Guys face You guys came up to me at the
Legacy lounge at the rooftop lounge there at the Circa,
and you did say that.

Speaker 2 (23:08):
I said, it was very, very touching.

Speaker 1 (23:10):
And Rich was there like, you know you're right, but
you were so no someone said that to you in
West West Someone hand me something.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
To smoke chat with Wes in Vegas is lovely a
little bit.

Speaker 7 (23:20):
Yeah, awesome, he said. Iowa Sam is whose spot was
fifteen years ago, by the way.

Speaker 3 (23:24):
Yeah, and that I'll take this a compliment absolutely, Spot
the kind of would you guys agree, kind of the
Wizard of Oz of all this putting it, helping put
it together. Yeah, I'm gonna give Spot a big old
roundom plus clause because he did a great job.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
This is a lot of planning, a lot of time.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
Is our video producer here on Fox Sports Radio. With
all the videos at Covino and Rich, he still recovers
an iron lung right now, just like sleeping for thirty
six hours, still picking up stuff in Vegas, like literally
everything we left behind.

Speaker 2 (23:50):
But let's get to the vocals.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
But Iowa Sam showed up in a Wayne's World hat
and like an extra tight iod T shirt that was yellow,
and everyone's like, who is this gonna be so authentic?
There's the perfect word preciate that I agree up with that?
All right, Tony in Oregon, your thoughts on Game seven?
Are we just are we being too hard on the
thunder because I thought it was boring.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
As could be.

Speaker 6 (24:11):
It was definitely boring.

Speaker 10 (24:12):
I was pulling for the Pacers obviously, was devastated when
Halbert and went out. I think I think you're seeing
the lackluster up just from Oklahoma City players and the
fan base for that matter, because you know, they just
they just don't know, like they haven't, they haven't went
through the trials and tributations of a lot of other
teams with failure, you gotta have failure to appreciate the win.
And I think that's what everybody says in that win

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last night.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
I mean, that's a really great point. It really is.

Speaker 1 (24:37):
I love what you're thinking, But are we really mad
at a team for being that good? No?

Speaker 2 (24:40):
I think about that. Yeah, I just I don't know.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
It's like, I'm just safe to say that the steam
came out of everybody when Halliburton went down. It was
way less exciting right after that. In San Antonio, what's up,
San anton.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
What's up?

Speaker 1 (24:56):
Guys?

Speaker 11 (24:57):
I love your show, But I could not disagree more
that was I think that was a great finals. I
think it was two small market teams that battled. It
went seven games. I thought it was awesome. And I

(25:20):
you know, I coached basketball. I coached my sons in
aau and we men when we beat teams that we
had no business beating, it's the greatest feeling in the world.
And just uh real quick drops to Danny G. I
I called in maybe a couple of months ago, I

(25:42):
don't know, and I got a swiggy and it took
a while to get to me, and Danny G sent
me two extra coozies, and I just.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
Wanted to say thanks.

Speaker 1 (25:53):
I listen, I'm not back. I'm not a double talking
Davis here. But I didn't say the finals was bad.
I think there's just a lack of excitement. Meaning I
started this conversation by saying, when you compared the last
four major champions, they're jumping on each other. Everyone's going nuts.
I feel like they were handshaking like you do after
a wreck game. A whack of what happened, I mean,

(26:16):
it's exactly what you saw.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
There was some good basketball.

Speaker 7 (26:20):
I think people have already forgotten Game one, where the
thunder had to lead the entire game except for what
point three second. Yeah, that was a great We did
see some great basketball throughout, but we also saw, unfortunately,
the first injury that happened to Halliburton, and then how
things came about yesterday.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
Let's say, you think there's anything to be said about
Game one feeling like forever ago?

Speaker 2 (26:42):
Though, Yeah, I'm sure to talk about that later in
the show.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
Maybe it's the fact that they dragged it on so
long and that it came down to that game. And
let's say, how did Jimbo, what's up Jim and Saint Louis.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
Hey, guys, what's up? Man? Great chill, Thank you man,
Thank you buddy.

Speaker 12 (27:00):
You don't have to expect them to have it. I mean,
most professional athletes don't have it.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
That is true, which is.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
Why the legends stand outre right, the Spurs is a
great example. We just got a call from rich in
San Antonio. Some argue that when the Admirable, when the
Admiral left and no more David Robinson, Tim Duncan, jannobilely
Tony Parker weren't the most exciting champions, and they were
fundamentally sound, and they had Popovich.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
I don't know that San Antonio. By the way, it's
two colors.

Speaker 1 (27:28):
That's why when we talk about the goats. Tim Duncans
often left out of the conversation. It's not that he
wasn't a great player, it's that he didn't have.

Speaker 2 (27:36):
It Tim Duncan. Against Duncan, he was a great dude.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
He's a great leader, great player, but sort of a
boring watch fundamentals.

Speaker 2 (27:44):
You know, we're hating on all the wrong things. It
was a boring celebration. That's truly what it comes down to. Covid.

Speaker 1 (27:49):
It's interesting he could say Tim Duncan because didn't we
the other day joke about how he was one Ray
Allen three pointer away from being six and zero in
the finals. Yes, yet he's still not talked about enough.
Not Uh, Odessa, let's got to Dwayne.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
What's up, Dwayne.

Speaker 13 (28:04):
Hey, guys, had a great time in Las Vegas.

Speaker 11 (28:06):
It was just it was a great party. Really appreciate
it and really good people.

Speaker 13 (28:13):
King Carlos and uh Johnny gobor Gunny Joe from San
Juan copy Toronto, which is really good event. So one
of the things I wanted to mention is that sometimes
these teams they kind of take on the image of
their fan base. I grew up in Mid America, Big
Twins fan, you like one two World series and those
were great moments for a lot of people that live
on the East coast, West coast.

Speaker 11 (28:34):
That happens like every.

Speaker 13 (28:35):
Other year, and when you're a small market team, you
really appreciate it. So once again, great time in Vegas.

Speaker 2 (28:40):
Really enjoyed it. Thanks a lot, Hey, thank you. That
was Big Mic snoring next to him. How was that?

Speaker 3 (28:46):
I thought Dwayne was at a motorcycle rally or so, Yeah,
because Big MIC's not here, he's missing, Spotty's missing, he's
resting today, arresting.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
Let's go to Ian in LA. What's up being last one?
What up?

Speaker 12 (28:59):
Hope you were good?

Speaker 2 (29:00):
What's up?

Speaker 13 (29:01):
Hey?

Speaker 9 (29:02):
So?

Speaker 12 (29:02):
I think the problem with Jay's NBA is there's no
real storylines. You know, there's a lot of great players,
great teams, and if you're a big basketball fan, what
you're seeing is what you hopes for. Nobody's dominant, but
it lacks of storyline. So if you're a casual user,
you don't care.

Speaker 1 (29:19):
Yeah, that's true, and you know what, then I'm guilty
because I'm more casual than die Hard. So, hey, Rich,
you think maybe it has to do with the fact
that we're still recovering from Vegas and thanks for the call, man,
And there's a sense of relief in our minds a
little bit too, because there's a lot of hate towards
basketball period, because I know you want to talk about

(29:40):
how much you hate the WNBA and I want to
talk about And I had the same feeling about the
whole Kevin Durant move over the weekend.

Speaker 2 (29:49):
He had made it very clear.

Speaker 1 (29:50):
I mean, he's gotten to the point where he can
call the shots nineteen years in the league. MVP Superstar Champion,
Kevin Durant says, I'll play for the Lakers, the Spurs,
or the Rockets, and I feel like even the move
to the Rockets is so boring to me, dude, Like
that was the last team I wanted to hear him
play for him Like, ah, that's no fun as a broadcaster, Dude,

(30:11):
As a broadcast, I guess I'm a professional broadcaster, right,
Houston say as a broadcaster. As a sports fan, I'm like, Houston,
be sure to drink your oval teen. I thought that
was the weakest announcement. I really did, Like any other
team would have been cooler to me than that. And
that's no knock on Houston. It just didn't feel fun

(30:34):
or exciting to me. I was like, all right, So
I don't know if that's just the mood we're in.
You ever watch a movie and it sort of stinks,
but then you watch it again, You're like, maybe I
was just in a bad mood. Yeah, maybe that was event.
But again, lack of celebration for sure. But congratulations to
Okay see extremely dominant and now we'll get two more
phone calls. But we turn it over to our guy,
Dan Bayer.

Speaker 9 (30:54):
dB all the whole Durant thing and went off on
it yesterday during My Sunday show with Mike har Minot's
on social media. They tried to plant like this was
this organic experience that he was on stage at Fanatics Fest.

Speaker 2 (31:06):
Yeah, when all of a sudden he got traded. Wow,
while he was on stage.

Speaker 9 (31:11):
This happened ahead of Game seven of the NBA Finals
to completely steal no pun intended the thunder of that
game seven.

Speaker 14 (31:19):
Wow.

Speaker 9 (31:20):
Yes, it was so contrived and so awful and so ridiculous.
So those are other reasons why I hated the Durant
trade yesterday. I digress. The Pacers are falling a game
shorts of winning that NBA Championship, and now today they
found out that they're likely to not have Tyre's Halliburton
for all of next season. Did rupture that achilles tendon

(31:40):
in his right legs scheduled for surgery today.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
TIRAQ play of the Day, No, Tyres Halliburton wa. He
got boring right after that for Indiana, and the Thunder
pulled away in the third quarter to win it all.

Speaker 14 (32:00):
Fans feel this moment the uncommon young team proves to
be unstoppable.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
It's over the pay Coup Center Final.

Speaker 14 (32:07):
In Game seven, the Thunder one O three, the Pacers
ninety one, but dream realize the storybook season is complete.
The final drop for Reids, the Oklahoma City Thunder old
the twenty twenty five NBA champions.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
I mean, great call.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
They just ended up fist bumping while he's saying all
that greatness boring WWLS Thunder Radio Network, and that was
our TYRAC play of the day, dire Rag. I want
to make it clear to you, no one calls me
Steve big Dumper Cavino because I have a big dumper.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
It's because I just like a big dumper. I just
want to make that co oh, yeah, thank you.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
But by the way, so plenty of cheeks at a
stadium Swimming's sure it did. And props to cow Rowley
Big Dumper. I heard a story today where he's okay
with the nickname, but his mom's not a big fan
of it.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
It, which is so funny to me.

Speaker 1 (32:55):
He's got thirty one bombs. Man, it's insane.

Speaker 7 (32:58):
The Big Dumper. Yeah, the Big Dumpy. You think he'll
sign his baseball cards like that?

Speaker 9 (33:02):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (33:02):
Yeah, I would if I were him.

Speaker 1 (33:04):
But again, the other nickname in the news today is
Dicky love Lady, Mets reliever, So instead of Richard Lovelady,
he's now Dickie love Lady. Yes, before we get to
some w NBA annoyance, I'll explain why I'm angry at something.

Speaker 2 (33:19):
We're gonna talk some NFL.

Speaker 1 (33:21):
We might know our Super Bowl halftime show for next year,
at least they're hinting at it. But if you got kids,
I saw this was interesting. Danny g You got like
college kids and and a baby.

Speaker 2 (33:31):
I have eight kids, all different age rings.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
Yeah, they do age, they do range in age. Apparently
there's a couple of new things that kids are saying.
The summer like all the skimmity riz and all that
stuff that's old news. There's a couple new ones. Throw
me at you tell me if you've heard these, let's
hear them.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
In the summer. Kids are all talking about the UV
like they actually check on their phones.

Speaker 3 (33:51):
Our daughter does this every day UV to see what
I'm gonna forget it as the UV. They're like, yeah,
just look late in the day and low UV like
they're worried about the UV to get tanned and stuff.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
So funny, man, it's a big deal. My daughter talks
about it to my daughter.

Speaker 7 (34:04):
My daughter thinks that it's cool to get tanned on
the days where the UV's bad.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
Had to explain to her, like, no, no, genius, it's
the opposite. It's a thing. My kids are way into
politics and u V.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
I'm like, I'm fascinat like u v's they were looking
at the UV things I didn't give a Deadley squad
about when I was a teenager.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
Politics and UV.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
Apparently, the term i'm crashing out that doesn't mean like
you're tired, like you'd say I'm crashing like I'm you know,
I had a long weekend in Vegas.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
I'm gonna crash.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
They're crashing out, like like anxiety and everything's got the
best of them. Like they're like they're freaking out. They're
crashing out.

Speaker 2 (34:37):
And the other one. Have you heard?

Speaker 1 (34:39):
It's a It's like an acronym that they text each other.
So if you see your kid Texas sibu s y
b a U, you know this one. It's shut your
bitch hats up. That's the new one. So if you
see your kid put out SIBOW, that's that's the new

(35:03):
acronym that every young kid's using.

Speaker 2 (35:04):
Cool Coven in the show while they're listening to shaboozi. Yeah,
can I just hit you.

Speaker 1 (35:11):
With I was gonna say every Oklahoma City thunder fans
telling me right now.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
Yeah, exactly, exactly up all right real quick, w n
b A.

Speaker 1 (35:21):
This rubbed me in such a weird way because listen,
I root for women's sports to get to the next level.

Speaker 15 (35:30):
I do.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
I mean, you know how you preface this rich you
gotta say I'm a girl dad. No, I don't want
to do that. It's like someone wrong because it's what
race is saying. Friends of color. No, I'm just saying,
you know, I'm a girl dad, I'm a girl, dad everyone.
But there's there's a problem with the w n B
A And I'll explain what that is coming up next.
And it has to do with Kelsey Plumb, who I'm
sure is lovely.

Speaker 2 (35:49):
But she did something that rubbed me a weird way.
I'll get to that.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
We'll get to Shack Diesel trivia, some shack Diesel and
the NFL creeping back into our lives.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
Wait to start talking more and more football.

Speaker 1 (36:04):
The WNBA I've never seen, but then again, maybe I've
had some dumb friends in my life. I'm trying to
think if I've ever seen someone or something getting their
own way more than the WNBA, Like someone man or
woman being given an opportunity, you keep getting in your way.
I think we've all worked with someone like that, like
the boss likes it, your path is great, and they

(36:25):
f up like tripping on their own shoes. I feel
like the WNBA someone needs to tie their shoes because
they keep tripping over their own feet. Whether it's you know,
not embracing Caitlin Clark making it seem like the fighting
on the court isn't secretly a good thing, pushing aside rivalries,
making things about race when they shouldn't be about race.

(36:46):
It should be about the starting with all the money
stuff and you know, making silly arguments as to why
the money should be more. Everything about the WNBA is
getting in its own way. And I just saw one
of their clip to explain why I feel this way.
Kelsey Plumb, super talented athlete, one of the faces of
the league, Attractive, cool, everyone likes Kelsey Plumb. She's greeted

(37:10):
by people wanting her autograph. Take a listen right here.

Speaker 12 (37:18):
I'm not kind of weird o. Keep trying a little bit.

Speaker 2 (37:23):
I'm turned off.

Speaker 4 (37:24):
I'm just a fan.

Speaker 2 (37:25):
I know, I appreciate it. One keeping you appreciate that?
Did she pulls not even cock into you.

Speaker 7 (37:35):
By the way, he's holding a plastic sheet of her
basketball cards.

Speaker 1 (37:39):
And I'm standing on business she's she's calling him low
key weird and saying that he's creepy for.

Speaker 2 (37:47):
Wanting an autograph.

Speaker 1 (37:48):
I think she's high key misreading the situation. What's the
big deal you have fans? That comes with the territory.
She wasn't being stalked in. I think it's wild to
think that if someone was seeking out autographs and pictures
of a WNBA star isn't that just showing that, oh wow,
maybe the WNBA's headed in.

Speaker 2 (38:08):
The right direction that people care to make this her
first autograph.

Speaker 11 (38:14):
Bro.

Speaker 1 (38:14):
I think autograph seekers are honestly some of the lame
at losers on planet Earth. If you're a grown man
seeking autographs outside a hotel, outside of tour bus, outside
of player's bus. Adults that want autographs are we neis
to the highest degree.

Speaker 9 (38:30):
But the fact that she well selfies have replaced the autograph,
but in this case they wanted to signed.

Speaker 1 (38:37):
But the simple fact that she is in a position
where people want this stuff from her, she should almost embrace.
I just think maybe, hey, like, there's two ways to
look at it. We could never know what celebrity, superstars
and athletes go through, right. We saw and I quoted
the famous Justin Bieber thing recently, But let's be real,

(38:58):
She's not Justin Bieber dude, right, you should not deal
with that kind of paparazzi and celebrity. And you can
also say there's a graceful way to back out of
these situations, right, Like making that guy feel like he
was weird is also not the best way possible. I
think they're all sounded a little rude. I think it's

(39:19):
all weirdo behavior. But I mean, I don't think you're
necessarily a weirdo for wanting an autograph. Maybe it was
for a kid. I don't know the backstory here. Our
buddy Michael Yo hit us up and he's like they
do that with with comedians with acts in Vegas. Like
he's like, they'll come up to you be like, sign
all this stuff just because they want to resell it

(39:41):
and they're trying to make a buck. And again I
think it's like it's like paparazzi and those type of people.
I think is gross.

Speaker 2 (39:47):
I don't like that.

Speaker 1 (39:49):
That's why we were discussing before the show. Aaron Judges
rule Yeah.

Speaker 7 (39:52):
When he was here in southern California last year for
the World Series, he told one of Ben Mallard's listeners
who asked for an autic at the hotel, He's like, nope, sorry,
I only saw autograph for kids.

Speaker 1 (40:03):
But isn't that a more polished, pr friendly way of
saying I went against you, dude, I know you're gonna go.

Speaker 2 (40:10):
And take this and sell it.

Speaker 7 (40:11):
The problem with that is that these people who resell
the autographs, they get kids to do their dirty work
for them. They'll hire kids to go get those autographs.

Speaker 2 (40:20):
Oh that is true, yeahs an Stam.

Speaker 7 (40:23):
And by the way, there's a follow up on this
Kelsey Plump thing. In that video, one of the guys
standing there wanting an autograph they found out from researching
is one of those guys who resells these autographs. But regardless,
people are still saying, hey, it doesn't matter, just go
ahead and sign it. You're making money off of a
kid's game. These guys want autographs, Just do the signature
really quick and move on. That's at least most of

(40:45):
the fans' thoughts in the comments, and.

Speaker 3 (40:46):
That means that your your autograph and you're signed memorabilia
is worth something. If one of those weaking dudes is
hanging around trying to get your autograph to resell, it
means is actually has some value.

Speaker 1 (40:56):
And that's my point is I'm I never in a
million years think being one of those autograph secrets is cool.
I'm just saying that WNBA now stuff getting in your
own way, there's signs that people care and you're still
like doing your stepping on your own feet and how
you say to it man, you lean into that, you know,

(41:18):
as much as you can for the good press, not
the bad press. Because this is why we're all speculating today, like, yeah,
she was kind of mean about that.

Speaker 7 (41:25):
How many how many years though, did we hear that
they wanted to be treated like one of the major sports,
that they wanted that same respect and Iowa Sam is
right when he says they're not used to it, you
better get used to it because of all these eyeballs
that you know who from the fever has put on
your game.

Speaker 1 (41:42):
Right now, we're looking at it in a sexist way though,
you know how women say, you know, if women shows confidence,
it's just misinterpreted as we're being a bee. If if
a male athlete did this, would we have been like, yeah,
good for that guy, tell them to beat it. Now
that he's doing it, we're like, look at the attitude
that she has. Because Biber recently went off of the
paparazzi and people, I think were like, yeah, but let's

(42:04):
say you were a C level NBA guy.

Speaker 7 (42:06):
And we you know, no, no, no, we gave Lebron
a hard time at the Olympics when he pulled one
of these moves on that kid.

Speaker 1 (42:11):
Remember, but don't you think some women may spin it
that way. If it was a guy, we'd be giving
him a high five for telling him to beat it.
But because a woman, I guarantee you we'll hear that.
I guarantee you will hear that from somebody. But because
a woman, oh, she's she's got an attitude problem. Because
she told him that he's being weird. You know what,
I think we get ended there. I just thought it

(42:32):
was I thought it was just another little microcosm another time,
some more time though, just to really like dissect it again.
This is Kelsey Plum w NBA star telling some guy
that she's low key yeah, she plays for the La
Sparks telling his autograph seeker that he's low key being
kind of weird.

Speaker 2 (42:51):
The bus was right here, that kind of weird ok
key trunk a little bit.

Speaker 7 (43:00):
I'm really turned off right now.

Speaker 2 (43:01):
I'm just a fan of I know, I appreciate that
if you like to let you take it down that one.
Keep killing this.

Speaker 1 (43:08):
I'm a little turned off right now. I'm really turned
off really saying, all right, maybe is he ugly? Maybe
there's a nicer way to say it, right, especially when
you're looking for good press, lean into the fun side
of the WNBA. You're trying to sell a league here.
I get what Rich is saying and your thoughts eight
seven seven ninety nine on Fox do don't get in

(43:28):
your own way. That's all I feel like everything the
WNBA has had an opportunity to do with, I just
feel like, uh, there must be someone of power thinking like,
why do we keep stepping again on our own shoelaces
and tripping?

Speaker 2 (43:42):
Like just even be nice to losers?

Speaker 1 (43:45):
Honestly, Danny, is that sort of you know, be nice
to losers as part of the equation when you're a
celebrity or or someone of note, you don't think Lebron
James and nice to losers.

Speaker 2 (43:56):
It's in the handbook.

Speaker 7 (43:57):
I think, Well, you have to have a lot of patients.
One thing I said in the pre show meeting, there's
some pro athletes who could never do what you guys
just did this past weekend, which was mingle with hundreds
and hundreds and hundreds of people that love what you
do for a living. And you guys not only have
patients and enjoy doing it, but I mean, you're having

(44:18):
these many conversations with all these different people We've seen
athletes who won't bother to spend any time, even a
little bit of time with one fan.

Speaker 1 (44:27):
I think if you want to be anyone of note
in the handbook, there's got to be a chapter it's like,
be nice to losers, a little gracious at the same time,
imagine your show Heyo Tani or your Aaron Judge, or
you're Joe Burrow, You're you're Patrick Mahomes, you're Travis Kelcey.

Speaker 2 (44:45):
You gotta be nice to the fans, perhaps.

Speaker 1 (44:49):
Even if you're a fan this dude before and knows
what the scammeroo is. I mean, you got to keep
that in the conversation too, to be fair. So your
thoughts A ninety nine on Fox and keep that number
in your phone because we're going to be playing some
Shack Diesel trivia too, and we need contestants for that,
all right, So if.

Speaker 2 (45:08):
You want in eight seven, seven, nine to nine on Fox,
we're gonna do that. That's the last time Shack is
going to be with us for the until next day.

Speaker 1 (45:17):
YEA goodness, So I hope Shack's ready. Something I want
to throw out there as well. We're talking about, uh,
the WNBA A League that needs no help the NFL,
the NFL, now that the NBA and the NHL are done.
Unless you're a super big baseball fan like we are,
I feel like everyone immediately right now, your attention goes

(45:39):
right to all right, where when's football starting? You're probably
planning out your Fourth of July plans, and the minute
the fourth of July is over, it's sort of like
a countdown to the NFL, because after the fourth of July,
it's like team minus a month. And here we are,
and they've already hinted at who the super Bowl halftime
show could be and what's cool about it. I don't

(46:02):
think anyone would argue this, but he's the guy that
isn't he in charge of picking Yes, Yes, the act?

Speaker 2 (46:09):
Yeah, jay Z?

Speaker 1 (46:10):
What do you think about jay Z if he did
the super Bowl halftime show? I think it's a week
it's in the Bay Area, right the super Bowl makes
his way back to this Santa Claus.

Speaker 7 (46:20):
I'm just hating saw the headline, says Internet in a
frenzy over rumors of jay Z possibly headlining twenty twenty six.

Speaker 1 (46:27):
I mean, I like jay Z for sure, I like
a lot of it. I mean, who doesn't like jay Z.
Of course I like jay Z. I think what makes
it a fun halftime show, though, is he'd be filling
the stage up with a ton of special guests for sure,
including his wife. Including his wife, so we're going to
get a bunch of superstars on the same stage.

Speaker 2 (46:49):
So therefore it probably will be great.

Speaker 1 (46:52):
But my first initial reaction is ah man eh, all right,
but again, maybe again, maybe some Monday vibes.

Speaker 7 (47:00):
As a hip hop, big hip hop follower and fan,
obviously I'm not a follower anymore because I love old
school hip hop, so classic hip hop, I'll say that
we've seen enough hip hop.

Speaker 2 (47:09):
And I love Kendrick Lamar. He's great.

Speaker 7 (47:11):
And we argued about that last year when it was
announced he was going to headline the super Bowl at halftime.
It should have been a rock or it should be
if they haven't decided all the way yet, it should
be a rock act this year. I mean, that's what
I would do. And I'm a hip hop guy, and
I'll still say let's spread the wealth around and go
to another format and then do jay Z the following year.

Speaker 1 (47:31):
Yeah, I think it really is a matter of rotating
musical taste. Yeah, right, And my first thought was, like,
what are jay Z's anthems? And New York is the
one New York state of mind is the one that
comes to mind for me. Empire state, empire state of mind,
and that doesn't translate in California. And Alicia Keyes did

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her stuff recently.

Speaker 7 (47:52):
If there's one year Metallica makes the most sense, it
is twenty twenty six.

Speaker 1 (47:57):
They're from the area. Or you could say green Day,
you could say, let's not say green Day, you could
say I could totally be down with green Day. I
mean we've been we've been saying Metallica for years and
they're currently on tour with Pantera.

Speaker 2 (48:11):
They have, you know, some new music out.

Speaker 1 (48:14):
I think it would have been great to have rock
and you know, I'm not a big country fan, or
some very popular rockin country collaboration. I mean, Metallica come
out and then all of a sudden, some younger crossover
country guys like a Jelly Roll or someone come out,
like there's one of those hardy guys. We we've we've
talked about what the possibilities could be. Just the fact

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that jay Z was hinted it's worth a quick conversation
because as much as we all love jay Z, I
don't think anyone's gonna say no to jay Z.

Speaker 2 (48:42):
I just don't.

Speaker 1 (48:42):
I mean, the super Bowl is not going back to
New York, so keep that in mind. You're never gonna
see a super Bowl in New York again. But I
just don't know if the Bay Area makes sense. By
the way, big Pimpin' n YC.

Speaker 2 (48:53):
What does that have to do with Diddley Squat for
the super Bowl?

Speaker 9 (48:58):
They have never They've never decided to go with local
flavor the face of it, the Dallas is the Dallas
one is the one that sticks out for me. I
guess Houston could have been for the for the same reason.
But I think so many people wanted a country artist
for that super Bowl in Dallas. They just felt that
it was that was the way to go, and and
that was Black Eyed Peas.

Speaker 2 (49:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (49:21):
And you know, last year, as much as people did
love or hate Kendrick Klamar, the most watched one ever,
that was the one when everyone said New Orleans like,
well wait, yes, like it makes sense, So you're right,
logic of Metallica makes sense.

Speaker 3 (49:34):
But has it ever made sense before? No, No, don't
forget that's so Fi. They did have the local you know,
they had doctor that's a point. Yeah, you know, Eminem
came in, but he's from obviously Detroit.

Speaker 9 (49:46):
Ever since the NFL and Rock Nation had an agreement,
it's all been hip hop or R and b artists basically,
that's what it's.

Speaker 2 (49:53):
That's what it's been. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (49:55):
So, but you thought the streak would and soon, especially
with the criticism from last year too, because again not
questioning the star power of Kendrick Lamar, we were questioning
the catalog for Super Bowl halftime, meaning anthems.

Speaker 9 (50:08):
You know that that a lot of people would know.
So they're going for demagio, They're going for fifty six straight.
That's that's pretty but it's pretty obvious too, right. So
that's how I feel.

Speaker 1 (50:19):
Am I a big jay Z fan? Yes I am,
But I'm with Danny G. You have Huey Lewis written
down in your notes, Huey Lewis. Oh, here's a way.
But you know what, if you want to throw Huey Lewis,
it would be like a best of the eighties, an
eighties med league. You bring some other classic people out there.
It takes superstars, super r any X account.

Speaker 3 (50:41):
That would be too much, like you could never get
all the greatest eighties acts into one show, but you
get a.

Speaker 2 (50:46):
Few of them were dead too. So the rumor is,
jay Z, what is your first reaction?

Speaker 9 (50:54):
We can a hologram sopra that James Hologram dove climbing account.

Speaker 2 (51:01):
Is that right? Yeah? Not and not just him.

Speaker 7 (51:04):
It's it's on several websites, but it's everybody is saying
rumor because nobody knows this for sure right now.

Speaker 2 (51:10):
It's just what people are saying. If you told me
it was a jay Z and Medallica thing, it'd be
super dope. Does it have to be rock? Does it
have to be country?

Speaker 7 (51:19):
No?

Speaker 2 (51:19):
But it's cool to spread the love a little bit,
your rock guy.

Speaker 1 (51:22):
I am has Metallica professionally, had any like even interaction
with jay Z.

Speaker 2 (51:28):
You think or no? I have no idea. I'll DM
James Hetfield right now.

Speaker 1 (51:33):
You do that and we'll get someone to play shack
Diesel trivia. We'll do that next at eight seven, seven,
nine nine on Fox. We only have a few swiggis.

Speaker 7 (51:41):
I was just gonna say we are down to the
nitty gritty. There's like ten swiggies.

Speaker 2 (51:45):
There's a charity Swiggy.

Speaker 7 (51:47):
You gotta win, you gotta win, but it's multiple choice,
so your chances are good.

Speaker 1 (51:51):
Well, let's do that and we'll try to give away
a swiggy if you guys win the number again eight seven, seven,
nine nine on Fox some NBA trivia. We'll put a little,
a little oh on this NBA season. We'll officially move
on to the NFL. That's all coming up. I do
want to make it clear that we were not hating

(52:11):
on jay Z by any means. We're from the East
Coast from New York, not that I need to justify,
but I liked jay Z when he was Jazz's backup rapper,
hype guy. I used to like Hawaiian Sophie Jazz with
jay Z like a young baby boy jay Z. So
I've followed his whole career and I admire the guy,
and I have all his albums, but it's like, really,

(52:34):
jay Z, now, like, can we have someone else and
mix it.

Speaker 2 (52:37):
Up a little bit? You also love Fat Joe though.

Speaker 1 (52:40):
No bro, especially now with the news I'm hearing whoa
those other rumors, I'm hearing, Hey, We're gonna play Shack
Diesel trivia in a second I did want to say.
I know you come to us for you know, light sports,
talking about the rim stuff and butt cheeks and all
the stuff that you think of big dumpers and athletes
who are nicknamed big dumper. Yeah, I'm talking cal Rawley.
You think I'm talking about more bombs. But there is

(53:02):
major news in the world that is worthy.

Speaker 2 (53:04):
Just to mention.

Speaker 1 (53:05):
I mean, you don't come here for politics. But Israel
and Iran have agreed on a complete and total cease fire,
which is huge news in the world.

Speaker 2 (53:15):
So it's not true. You just spread it all over
the place.

Speaker 1 (53:18):
On Fox News, It's on CNN, it's everywhere. Ceasefire. That's
great news between Iran and Israel.

Speaker 2 (53:25):
So you run.

Speaker 1 (53:26):
I keep saying Iran because when I was a kid,
the iron cheek was from Iran. Iran and Iran. You're
just a big time Rich loves That's why Rich has
that flock of seagulls haircut. It's funny, all right, but hey,
big news. But hey, let's get to something lighter. It's
time for shack diesel trivia.

Speaker 2 (53:46):
Let's go.

Speaker 4 (53:47):
Whenever we say not to name drop, that means we're
about to name drop. Oh my goodness, not only our
CNR friends with Tyson and mahomes. Hey man, they're also
buddies with the Big Risk.

Speaker 1 (54:02):
What's up this big shock dues aka Shack Food he
ka Shack Daddy, heka the Big Aristotle. Guess what don't
want seeing our product?

Speaker 4 (54:10):
Time for some basketball trivia?

Speaker 2 (54:13):
A basketball trivia? What he said?

Speaker 1 (54:17):
He's the great fat Boys now breaking records FORFISR.

Speaker 4 (54:19):
Radio, Shack Dzel basketball trivia.

Speaker 7 (54:22):
All rights our security walking broke Shack Food into the
main studio. I'm alost going after breaks and noses A right,
you look you look nice in tan.

Speaker 1 (54:30):
Thank you?

Speaker 2 (54:31):
Just getting back from Bamas. You know you can clicks.

Speaker 1 (54:34):
By the case, I have to say, maybe you had
the right idea by being in the ocean, because I
don't know if you heard early, I wasn't that impressed
with talking a lot of smack abound basketball. First, you
hate the NBA, Now you hate w NBA.

Speaker 2 (54:46):
I don't hate anything.

Speaker 1 (54:47):
Bro fucking all the smack. Congratulations that's year. He's another company.
Now he's a shock company.

Speaker 7 (54:54):
Yeah, even though you couldn't get him for your shoe company,
I couldn't get him for my shoe company.

Speaker 2 (54:59):
Reebok Ready Rebuck.

Speaker 7 (55:00):
All right, your final time here until next NBA season.
Let's meet the contestants. Eleven time winner Rich Davis right
over there. Here we go, Leader in the Clubhouse. Fourteen
time winner Dan Byer. Hello, all right, dB, I'll use
you for this which you love to travel too, Beautiful
Fort Wayne, Indiana, Las Vegas, Nevada, Bridgeport, Ohio, El Dorado,

(55:21):
California for the eight oh five area code, Fillmore, California.

Speaker 9 (55:25):
No offense to California, but I feel that Indiana's feeling
the tough loss last night, so let's go to Fort Wayne.

Speaker 2 (55:31):
Yeah, a good choice. That's Troy. Troy's going.

Speaker 1 (55:37):
Hey, Troy, how about I play Super Bowl halftime fool
Snickers Shaq fu DJ shaq Shaq Diesel.

Speaker 2 (55:44):
Yeah, I don't know. And Troy, you're having a little
bit of a hangover after that game seven.

Speaker 13 (55:49):
Oh yeah, I don't want to talk about it.

Speaker 2 (55:52):
Well, hopefully you win.

Speaker 6 (55:53):
Here.

Speaker 7 (55:53):
Yes, here are the rules for Shack Diesel trivia. The
first contestant with two correct answers is the champ. If
there's a tie, we have a tie breaker question. Your
name is your buzzer, but you do have to wait
until all three possible answers are read. If there's two
wrong answers in a row, we move on to the
next question. Are you ready, Let's get it on. Here's
round one, Frush from Bahama's Big Aristotle. Let's go before

(56:14):
winning one game one last night? Okay, ce Thunder or
the SuperSonics and Seattle won one title in what year?
Was it A seventy five, B nineteen seventy nine or
C nineteen eighty.

Speaker 2 (56:26):
Two, Dan Fire, it was B nineteen seventy nine.

Speaker 7 (56:31):
Yes, Dennis Johnson his name finals every peep of Seattle. Yeah,
djis is supersonic. Back then, all right, so dB on
the board. So far as we moved to round two,
it's round two. What was that once Quota saying about flopping? Ay,
stand up and take your medicine like a man. B
After I saw a point of flop, I'd give them

(56:51):
a real reason to hit the floor or see. Flopping
is for suckers who listened to Celine Dia Rich rich Uh.

Speaker 2 (57:00):
Flopping is for suckers who likes Selene Dean. No, that's
your sucker.

Speaker 8 (57:05):
Troy is your buzzer working, Troy Troy, Jesus Troy said,
and he's right for this and take your medicine like
a man. Shock, disl the man DV and Troy both
on the board. Why Celene Dion have to catch us
straight there?

Speaker 9 (57:22):
Right?

Speaker 2 (57:22):
Yeah? Who listens to that garbage? My heart will go on.
You probably want to see you as halftime? All right?
Round three? I would I would shock, Yes, that would
be great. You you wouldn't, Sam?

Speaker 11 (57:33):
Is it.

Speaker 1 (57:35):
Alright? Round three? Which player has the most career assist
in NBA history?

Speaker 14 (57:39):
A kid?

Speaker 2 (57:41):
B John Stockton or C Chris Paul Troy for the win.

Speaker 1 (57:49):
Man fort Wayne for wind thousand, eight hundred and six assists.
Paul is second kid, his third on the list. Congratulations,
So either way, can you show a little more excitement
and okay, see God last night?

Speaker 2 (58:01):
Please?

Speaker 7 (58:02):
Well, hopefully that lifts your spirits after the Pacers can't
get it done there in game seven, Troy, congrats, We're
gonna mail out of seeing our swigget to you.

Speaker 5 (58:10):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (58:11):
Can I just say the movie Troy, very underrated movie Troy.
I'm gonna go home watch it right now.

Speaker 2 (58:16):
You can use the swiggy to drink his own tears.

Speaker 1 (58:18):
You ever see Brad and Troy? You ever see that
he looks pretty riped in that movie, pretty rip I'm
gonna watch it.

Speaker 2 (58:22):
Thank you, Shack. What a great, great basketball.

Speaker 1 (58:25):
Good to be back. I had fun of Bahamas. I
always have fun here. By the way, I love that
Covino guy. He's my favorite. Yeah, I've heard of guys.
We see you next season. Yeah, we'll see you next season. Guys.

Speaker 9 (58:34):
Fooh, niggass full life. I agree poosh, niggas should play
super Bowl halftime.

Speaker 2 (58:42):
That'll be huge. That'd be great to me. Whatever one
needs check.

Speaker 1 (58:45):
I mean, let's uh, you know what, we're gonna get
into some NFL A random NFL story about the Commanders.

Speaker 13 (58:57):
Hey by hey, check it out.

Speaker 5 (59:00):
So on Father's Day, I was actually flying out to
Vegas and right behind me was DeAndre Hopkins, and you know,
I was like, do you how best hands in the league?

Speaker 11 (59:08):
And you know, he gave me a FIS book, did
a fanboy him. And you know, I like that interaction
because I feel like, as grown up we should.

Speaker 15 (59:15):
Approach you know, athletes in a different way because the
way that they look at it, they you know, they
do the sport for the generations to come and for
you know, for us as adults, we we have to
you know, kind.

Speaker 13 (59:25):
Of respect that boundary.

Speaker 11 (59:27):
And could I just quick quickly add that I'm trying.

Speaker 5 (59:29):
I missed you guys by a day, but I will
say that me and my fiance we took an uber
in starting. I went by the fool side just to
kind of feal the energy as if I was going
to be there. And man, it seemed like you guys
had a great time.

Speaker 1 (59:41):
Dude, it was the best time. And you know, we'll
we'll catch you next time. Andy, I'll say this, thank
you Andy. What you did with Hopkins perfect? Yeah, now
you nailed that interaction. Hey, how best hands in the league.
Give him a fist bump called to day. You had
your moment and he didn't annoy him. You made him
feel cool. You probably made him chuckle.

Speaker 2 (01:00:00):
Nice.

Speaker 7 (01:00:01):
How about Daniel tweeting in and reminding all of us
that you're also the same person who snuck blurry pictures
of Angelina Jolie.

Speaker 2 (01:00:08):
I mean that is true.

Speaker 1 (01:00:09):
But you know what, the interaction we had it was funny,
our buddy Mark because people kept like hovering near the
table because Angelina and Joey was the next table.

Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
Our buddy Marcos here.

Speaker 1 (01:00:19):
I thought I looked good tonight and everyone was looking
at me but at you, and she laughed, and I
was like, dude, you nailed that quick interaction. It's a
matter of not bothering a celebrity. Rapte probably thought about
that line for a good twenty minutes before he delivered it.
That was a good one, though, you know what cove
before before we get to this commander's quick story. It's

(01:00:39):
a real damn shame that Jalen Hurts is in Canadian
because I just saw a wild stat. Every other championship MVP.

Speaker 2 (01:00:49):
This year has been Canadian.

Speaker 1 (01:00:52):
NBA, NHL and Major League Baseball. Freddie Freeman Canadian? What
from californ Canadian Freeman? And are you sure about that,
Sam Bennett?

Speaker 2 (01:01:04):
Canadian? Isn't Freddy Freeman?

Speaker 1 (01:01:06):
I saw this meme and everyone's double checking it. I mean, Sam,
if it's not a meme, it has to be true.

Speaker 2 (01:01:11):
Oh now when you got me it's in Freddy Freeman.
This thing is fake memes? Yeah, Canadian American.

Speaker 3 (01:01:17):
First basement, it said he was born in Fountain Valley, California.
Oh yeah, it does say it does say Canadian American.

Speaker 2 (01:01:23):
I don't, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:01:24):
Maybe he identifies as as Canadian. I just know Canadian citizen.
He was maybe born here.

Speaker 3 (01:01:30):
When he came from the Braves to the Dodgers, everyone
was like, yeah, he's coming home, you know, so col
So I didn't know about the Canadian thing, but hey,
if you saw it on a meme, both his both
his parents moved here.

Speaker 2 (01:01:40):
So he's a RUL citizen. So he's Canadian the citizenship.

Speaker 1 (01:01:44):
So Jalen Hurts the only Championship MVP that's not Canadian
this year, So what's up Canada? A thank you for Cheesy's,
Jim Carrey and all the rest. Jalan Hurts loves Canada
dry though, so is that all right?

Speaker 2 (01:01:57):
It's perfect? He's his favorite.

Speaker 1 (01:01:58):
Sinderill in that division, staying in the NFC East, which,
by the way, should be really fun this year because
I'm not saying the Giants are competitive, but they got better, right,
and we'll see what Russ does and the excitement of
Jackson Dart and if he'll get any playing time. Hold on, dude,
I'm still taking off my NBA hat. You're already on

(01:02:19):
the NFL. Yeah, I'm not ready for all this. Giants
just by nature get more exciting. Sure, Washington, will they
bring that same you know energy. They made it to
the NFC Championship Game. They're electric for real. Daniels is legit, Yeah,
no doubt. Like I just said, Jalen Hurts, you're defending

(01:02:40):
Super Bowl champions And then you got the Cowboys who
every year did they get it right? Have they figured
it out? You know, the team with such a storied
history has the longest streak not making to the NFC
Championship Game. So the NFC East is already electric. Now

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they're not changing the name back. We're not going to
become the Redskins again. But a lot of fans while
they have embraced the Commanders because the play on the
field speaks for itself.

Speaker 2 (01:03:13):
Like I said, Jayden Daniels electric.

Speaker 1 (01:03:16):
Yeah, there's speculation that the Washington Commanders could bring back
the old Redskins uniform minus only the redskin meaning somehow
find something close enough to put on the helmet, but
bring back the old Washington Redskins uniforms meaning the exact

(01:03:36):
color scheme, the exact could have done that anyway, Yeah,
but they pivoted away from that, and they're saying, maybe
you're still the Commanders, but you do everything and give
it the same look, color scheme, everything.

Speaker 7 (01:03:49):
It'll look like the Redskins old uniform minus the feathers,
but maybe.

Speaker 1 (01:03:54):
Just on the helmet like a sea with You're not
going to have the maybe the feathers, I don't know.
And to pay tribute, I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:04:01):
I mean, that would be cool, but I don't think
they're gonna do that.

Speaker 1 (01:04:04):
But the Washington Commanders coming off of the big success
of last year.

Speaker 7 (01:04:09):
When we were kids, and if you grew up in
the eighties, didn't you think that was one of the
sweeter uniforms?

Speaker 2 (01:04:14):
Got a doubt, Dude.

Speaker 1 (01:04:15):
I had the jersey just because there was something like,
honestly on paper, you'd be like really like maroon and
like yellowish gold like I don't know, it doesn't sound
like it will look cool, but I always know it
always talked on the field, and you know what helped too.
When we were kids in the eighties and nineties, they
were good, Yeah for sure. So yeah, just a little
for people that care about the uniform game. Some people

(01:04:37):
don't give I was like a little John Riggins, dude,
she saw me my sweet jersey. People don't give a
crap at all, But yeah, you and uh yeah, dude,
you don't even know you know what the John Riggins is.

Speaker 2 (01:04:47):
There's a John Riggins move.

Speaker 1 (01:04:49):
Oh are you gonna tell them? Yeah, this is a
private moment. You can just expose it that. Wow, it's
one thing for you and I don't know he's about
to tell the nation aliates. Oh, we saw John Riggins
in the bade room one time, seventy five years old.
John Riggins, still kicking, still doing his thing. He used
to work for one of the NFL channels at Serious.

Speaker 2 (01:05:07):
He was a nice guy.

Speaker 3 (01:05:08):
Wait, so you saw John Riggins in the bathroom. Yeah,
next to a urinal, so we know, why are you
looking at his watch? So John Riggins.

Speaker 1 (01:05:17):
We'd see this guy every day in the hallway and
we used to call it the Riggins because he would,
you know, hold running backs and full backs. They're hobbing
a little bit, right, I mean, think of the wear
and tear a guy like Riggins put on his body, right,
a lot of moaning and grown as he and buckled
his belt. I'll tell you he was always so kind
to everyone there, you guys, it's all just kindness. But

(01:05:38):
he goes up to the urinal and picture this bugle
your straddle a little bit ubugles. His pan heet got
to be parallel to your to the shoulders, you know
what I mean, one forearm against the wall and then
the other farm against wall and just leans. Oh so
no hands, no hands on, no hand on the Jimmy Johnson.

(01:06:01):
And remember, like I like how you stayed in the
same division, so.

Speaker 2 (01:06:05):
Your hands elbows on the wall. But we would so tired.

Speaker 1 (01:06:09):
We would always joke that if you were drunk, high
or tired and you just went to the bathroom where
you put your arm up like your forearm like.

Speaker 2 (01:06:16):
This, both forearms against the walls in the urinal, no hands.
And that's the riggins.

Speaker 9 (01:06:22):
Just a lot of riggins going on in Vegas this
past Yeah, it's like I could barely stand sort of thing.