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Covino bumped into a Rock star yesterday! Rich has a question about teams & bands that have multiple big stars. The Dodgers Will Smith gets some love & they talk the "lead chair." Rich goes over the faces of NFL teams! They talk MLB trade deadline & take a shot guessing an NFL on FOX Top 15 Power Rankings, without getting 3 strikes. Plus, 'MID WEAK MAJOR,' a WNBA toy & wings/dippin's turns into a debate!

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, thanks for listening to the best of Cabino and
Rich podcast. Be sure to catch us live every day
from five to seven pm the eastern two to four
pacifics on Fox Sports Radio. Find your local station for
Chabino and Rich at Fox Sports Radio dot com, or
stream us live every day on the iHeartRadio app by
searching FSR. When you think of music and I always

(00:25):
think music and sports go hand in hand. I really do.
Can't go to the stadium for a good game without
hearing some anthems out, some Cotton Eyed Joe without some
ac DC. What out with a band and a band
member that I ran into? Yesterday? Where did you come from?
Where did you go? So? Yesterday I reluctantly went to

(00:45):
Coldstone Creamery because my daughter put the guilt trip on me.
She's like, Dad, you promised all week. I think you're
the first person that's ever uttered off raise reluctantly he
went to the greatest ice cream shop. I'm a busy man.
I wanted to get home and finish the Yankee, to
watch him lose again. Yeah, and to be honest, nobody
needs that much ice cream. There's a new Oreo Taco.
Coldstone cream retreat and she's like, Dad, gotta have it.

(01:09):
You never take me. So I was like, fine, but honey,
I gotta watch Anthony Volpi. Okay, take another error. The
long Yeah, he's got He's on his fifteenth. I gotta
see it. He leads the league in errors. And by
the way, I heard, they're geting Austin Slater. I can't wait.
So the long story short. If you want the extended version,

(01:32):
catch us on Patreon, Covino and Rich. I'm trying to
make this simple here. I reluctantly went, but man, what
a cold choice it turned out to be. Because I
saw a rock god enter the building. I couldn't believe
my eyes. Sam, Yeah, exactly. Now. My one hint is
the question before I tell you who it is, can

(01:53):
you name a few bands where the ancillary characters, the
bass player, the guitar player, maybe the drummer, are just
as famous, if not more famous, than the lead singer,
because usually it's the lead singer that gets all the escalades.
I have two answers, accolades, I have two answers out
the gate. Who comes to mind Pete Wentz a fallout boy,

(02:14):
You're right, he's more popular than Patrick stump. He's a
great answer Tommy Lee because he has a huge hog
and he did Pam Anderson. I think another great answer.
Vince Neil is the lead singer superstar Vato Loco in
his own right. But Tommy Lee is more popular, if
not more popular, than Vince Neil. I'm trying to think,

(02:36):
sometimes there's an athlete on your team, he's not your
best player. But the most popular bands where they're all superstars, right,
like who comes to mind there? I mean there's a
lot of examples. The Beatles, right, they were all superstars
in like Black Sabbath. Those other accompanying guys were very popular, Yah,

(02:57):
Tony Iaomi, Geezer, Butler, all big stars because the band
was so massive. One of the guys that I ran
into yesterday is as popular, if not more popular, than
the lead singer of a mega band, a rock band.
That's what made it so weird that he was at
Coldstone Creamery one of the Proclaimers. No no, because I
wouldn't know either one of those Guenberger twins. So you

(03:21):
could say, hey, Lars is just as popular as James
Headfield right in Metallica. I mean, the lead singer always
gets more props. You saw Lars ol Rick, No, even bigger.
I don't know about what else comes to mind anyone else?

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Well, I thought you so I can guess one a
band where like everyone, Yeah, I would say, because they're
all distinct characters like Kiss.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Bro. Now on the head, I was saying, you made it.
But you might have been wrong about Heavy Gilmore too,
but you were right about this. Are you ready to
rock and roll all night? Is that what's going on
parting every day? Yeah? Growing up I listened to the
Mexican band Bessel. They were kind of big. I saw
them in those Bookie's performed together one time. But yo,
I'm at Colstone Creamery reluctant, right, and incomes strutting in

(04:08):
Paul Stanley of Kiss. I s you not and I
couldn't believe it, and he was super cool and he's like, dude,
I've been thinking about ice cream all week. I had
to come in and I'm like, so you don't like it?
Love it? You gotta have it, bro, And it was
just so wild to see. Another answer that comes to
mind slash to the axle, right, another superstar. There's a

(04:29):
lot of guys that are they're just big stars. Eddie
Van Halen to David Lee Roth, there's other superstars in
the band. Paul Stanley is as much kiss as anybody else,
as much as Gene Simmons, and he couldn't have been
any cooler and just such a random encounter I had.
But I do challenge the Fox Sports Radio Nation, okay,
to let me ask you this, think of other examples

(04:50):
of that, because it's few and far between. Rich, I
have a little twist on your question. Go ahead, sports teams, bands, hey, hell,
even TV shows where do you feel like the top
billing isn't so obvious? Because as I'm watching my Mets
lose for the third time in a row to the

(05:10):
Padres right now, is it machada or tattoos? So would
you say he's built? A great question? And when you
think of football too, right, it's always the quarterback that's
the main star, but sometimes on other teams, I mean,
Jalen Hurts, who's your guy? It's a great question, right?
So kiss? Is it Geene Simmons or is it Paul Stanley?
It's both right. It takes the both of them to

(05:32):
make kiss. It takes all of them, Like you said,
they're all superstar superheroes in their own right. They had
their own characters. But it was cool to see Paul Stanley,
who was super gracious. I told him about Fox Sports
Radio right down the street.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
Man.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
He's like, oh yeah, yeah, I know. And he couldn't
have looked better and been cooler, and you know, we
had a good laugh at the moment, and I told
him I would tell the story. He's like, oh man,
it's great, nice to meet you and everything. So I
ran it too. Paul Stanley randomly yesterday, right after Fox
Sportly cold Stone Creamer. You're trying to tell us Paul
Stanley's gonna show up here with ice cream.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
First, maybe you recognize him too, because you know, because
like I don't know if I recognize Gene Simmons beause
the audition immediately, I would have.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
Been able to pick Paul Stanley out of line up.
I looked at a current photo of him, and I'm like,
I would have just thought like old boomer with long hair.
I mean, personally, I was a bigger fan of Mike Stanley,
the catcher for the Yankees, but I recognize a superstar.
I play Kiss every weekend on Ozzie's Bone Yard channel.
Thirty eight. I grew up with that stuff.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah, now that I'm looking at him, he is. He's
got a very memorable face.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
He's the Kiss member with the star on his face,
so he truly is a rock superstar without the star
in his face. I don't know if I you know.
And by the way, just because we're out here in
LA that doesn't mean we have these celebrity encounters all
the time. And when you see them just strutting around
and nobody's bothering him at an ice cream shop in
the middle of the day, it's sort of random. So
sort of pumped me up and we had a great moment.

(06:55):
And then the other question is this, I so badly
wanted to ask for a pick, but I didn't want
to like fan boy out and I'm not the biggest
Kiss fan, so I didn't ask for the pick, But
I have the story. Should I have gotten the pick
or not? Is the other question. I mean, if the
pick was you and him feeding each other ice cream,
have some birthday cake ice cream? No, you had a

(07:17):
nice back and forth. Man to man, I'm there with
my kid and I'm like, come on, Malande, we ain't
got all day. Paul Stanley's waiting. You know, we had
a good laugh. It was fun and you know, the
kids behind the counter had no idea who he was,
which was wild. But they were wearing his T shirt though. Yeah,
but they were wearing his T shirt A favorite kiss song.
I don't know. Yeah, But you know, two questions. Can
you think of any of the examples where the lead

(07:39):
singer isn't necessarily the biggest story or I'm saying like
we're the dual, it's hard to It's like I said,
Machado and Tatist. I wonder if the Padres hurt Barkley
another good one, Yeah, Jalen Hurts and Saquon. There there
are teams where there's no like, well, that's not like
when you were a kid, there were teams that had

(08:00):
you know, rest in peace, Ryan Samberg. I also said
he was number one. Yeah, Andre Dawson was was a
beast too. But if you would have say Cubs when
we were kids, Ryan Samberg, you would say Cardinals. Bozzie Smith,
a name jumps out. Are there teams where you're like, no,
there's two stars that have top billing, Like if you
look around the arena or stadium, you're gonna see a

(08:21):
mix of those jerseys, Like right now for the Dodgers,
if you took away who is the big star of
your eighty six mets? Couldn't it's a good question if
you took away show Hey, if you took away Otani,
because obviously he's the answer, would it be Freddy? R Mookie?
Because that, to me is a great question.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
Is who's the top biller like Manzi those two are
almost equal, and then Will Smith would be after that?

Speaker 1 (08:44):
Freddie your Mookie. It's a tough one. No, it's it's
not You don't think it's as I think it's Freddy.
Oh wow, because of the world series and because it.

Speaker 4 (08:58):
Is evident and clear and Freddy is not falling off
and he has the walk off he has.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
Who has more star power? It's it's Freddy. It's Freddy.
What about the other one? I said, your your rival?
Is it Machado or Tatis Junior? See that's a good one,
right because they're both stars. They're both stars. That was
Star yesterday. And Sam, I know you have a Gene
Simmons story, but we'll get to your phone calls at
eight seven to seven ninety nine on Fox, and of

(09:24):
course we got to talk bad promo items. Next. What's up? Sam? Quickly?
Very quick?

Speaker 2 (09:29):
So I had I had a run in with Gene
Simmons here at Fox Sports Radio. So we have a
lobby that can take you up to these larger floors
in our building. We're like here on the first floor.
I'm getting on the elevator. In steps Gene Simmons, who's
is a very tall man. He's probably six two sixty three,
big dude. And he's with a woman and he's talking
about fabrics. He leans over to me, he like pinches
my shirt and rubs it. He's like, it's kind of
like a fabric like this talking to this woman. And

(09:50):
I was just like, Gene Simmons just pinched me andres
a prop rubbed my shirt and he just acted like nipples, no, no,
just yeah, I wish he pinches the shirt. He's like yeah,
kind of like a fabric like this, and then he
just turns to the woman keeps talking and I was like,
that's the coolest thing that's ever happened. Like he he
just completely ignored me. He was like yeah, just like
you're like a mannekin, like just rub the shirt, move on.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
And it's also random and unexpected, which made my encounters.
And I was like, oh, that's great. I don't know
why I find that Sam. Last fifteen seconds you picture
Sam just don't police standing great word. I was like,
and then he just just leans over and touches my
shirt and I'm like, you didn't say anything back. I
was just like, it's kind of like googly eyed. I

(10:34):
was like, all right, we got a few phone calls,
but we can move Onla.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
It was like a plaid shirt or something. I don't know,
a fennel or a fennel and a flannel. Flannel man,
maybe a good thing. He didn't talk to him. It's fennel, sir,
I mean the vegetable or whatever.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
So I also think it's hilarious that seventy three year
old got superstar rock Star rock cod had such a
hankering for ice cream that he had to go in
the middle of a Tuesday just to get it. Celebrities,
they're just like, a do you think he does like
ice cream? To see paints his face like a clown
when you're a megastar like that, and I guess he's
older megastar. Yeah, bro Kiss worldwide is huge at this stage.

(11:14):
He's seventy three, there on coffee. You don't think he
could go get ice cream stadiums, you know, it's it's
kind of a rare stadiums. You have zero say on
the significance of Kiss. You probably just heard of him
three years ago. They are superstars worldwide. Geane had his
own reality show for a few years Wide Superstars. I'm

(11:34):
not saying I'm not a big I'm not a big
Kiss fan, but I'm agreeing that Kiss is huge. But
the implication that Paul Stanley can't go to Coldstone Creamery,
that being harassed like one out of fifty people would
recognize him without his makeup on as seventy three year
old guy. Yeah, the makeup did keep there and emininity

(11:57):
anonymity for so that is true. But you can't downplay
the madmothity of the band Kiss, whether you like him
or not. And they do tie into the stadium anthem.
I'll back yup though that Paul Stanley is a close
number two to Gene Simmons. If not a band where
everyone was needed, I'll about your guy.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
Are Yeah, it doesn't have that song. I play occasionally
a rockin' in New York City. Back in the New
York in the New York Groove. Rocking in New York
City is equally good.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
But but no back in the New York Groove by
Ace freely speaking a kiss. That was the one where
he was the lead singer on That is what the
Mets play every time they win a game. There you go,
who's the drummer? I don't know. I don't know the drummer.
I don't think he is the Chris Peter Cris, All right,
I'll take you before right. He could have just made

(12:49):
that up. I agree, no, but it is. It is
Peter Cris. What movie did they highlight kiss a lot?
Was that Role Models with Paul Rudd? Yes, when they
all dressed up his kiss? All right, let's go to
your phone, calls your feedback. There's a couple of questions here.
When a team or a band, there's no real like
clear number one. Can you can you think of examples
of that? And uh, just the hilarity of Comino seeing

(13:14):
Paul Stanley getting a birthday cake explosion. It was a cookie,
don't you want? So there's one it culled him to
tie into sports. It's called like cake batter bat a
bat a batter or something like that. Yeah, that's what
he ordered. By the way, just to make this story
more fun, I have the cake batter, batter, batter, swing batter.
All right, Kate and Reno? What's up, Kaid? Hey, how

(13:37):
are we doing today? We're good man? What's on your mind?
Calling to.

Speaker 5 (13:44):
Uh second?

Speaker 1 (13:47):
Guys? You know, I grew up a Yankees fan and
growing up Alan Rodriguez, I gotta say, was probably the
best player on the game, but as you guys know,
Derek Jeter was. You know, even the topic that is,
that's a great example if there's a this is how
I always think about it. When your team makes their
promo picture for the upcoming season, who's the main guy

(14:08):
who's front and center? Like, if you're a Mets fan,
I was shocked. I mean, they spent all the money
on Sodo the front of it, the front of Like
let's say a Mets montage would be Soto, then Lindor's
a little smaller, but right there, Peter Hanso was like
a little step behind them in the montage. Like there's
a there's definitely a Dodger's montage somewhere where it's a
big show. Hey, the right and left end of his
Mookie and Freddy and then Will Smith. Yeah, Danny hit it.

(14:32):
Will Smith is also there, and maybe for the Mets
Edwin Diaz because he's the closer. Like you have your order,
as Camino loves to say, back in the day, who
got the T shirt? Because they weren't printing T shirts
for every player back in the day. Think of your
baseball card collection in the they make a starting lineup
of that's the way to put it to. That's another one. Yeah,
who who did they make the toy the starting lineup for?
They made it for like two guys a team, but
on your baseball if you remember your baseball card. Speaking

(14:54):
of the Yankees, there was two for the title. Who
was the star back then? Dave winfielder Don Manning, Yeah,
I think that. I think Dave Winfield was also on
like the Twins and the Padres and other teams like
Don Mattingly, Top Bill, you gave a good one. And
I don't even have an answer. As the biggest Mets fan,
you know, when you think of that legendary eighty six
Mets team, my only moment of glory as a little schoolboy,

(15:16):
I ask you, guys, who's the biggest name. Because as
a New York Mets fan, when you think of that
eighties doing drugs, acting crazy team, is it Keith Hernandez,
Darryl Doc I think dwy couldn't Gary Carter? Gary Carter
at that time, Dwight couldn't had ros on this Dwight
gyscrapers in Manhattan. The craziest part though, is that Dwight

(15:37):
couldn't was like the guy that showed up nowhere in
the postseason like he was the best pitcher in that moment.
But look at the stats. Dwyke couldnin did not have
a good nineteen eighty six postseason. So is it a
Gary Carter? Do you think of Keith Hernandez? It's a
it's a fun question to your buddies, sonya swing. You
could take this in your pipe if you have one
and smoke on it with your buddies. So we'll wrap

(16:00):
it up with your phone calls eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox. You can always hit us up at
Covino and Rich Sports Radio. Phrase, by the way, should
be like put that in your vapor, smoke it or something.
You could put that in your vapor and smoke it,
vape it that in your vapor. Yeah, Robin Vegas, swit's up,
Rob Hey, Rob, Hey, guys.

Speaker 6 (16:18):
How about rock music?

Speaker 7 (16:21):
How about.

Speaker 1 (16:24):
Jimmy Page was just as famous Robert Plant. It's a
good one. You know what the I'll give you the
I'll give you the test if you don't really care
much about classic rock. You know both those names? Yeah,
absolutely plus like you would name it. Page had that
pedigree from other bands. He was known as the superstar
guitar player that needed e lead singer. And then came
Robert Plant in that same vein. How about Slash, Yeah,

(16:47):
I Danny you dipped out. I said that, Like he's
a superstar in his own right, maybe even bigger than Axel. Right, yeah,
it was another supergroups. Yeah, another supergroups. It's it's very
rare that people could hold their own like that and
and and still be the guy in a band or
on a team.

Speaker 3 (17:03):
How about in hip hop? There are DJs who are
just as popular as the MC, dating back to Eric
being Rock Kim, Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince jam
Master J from Run DMC.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
Yeah, those are and again few and far between them. Otherwise,
those are usually the ancillary people who are just in
the band or whatever. It's not so much an ego thing,
but it's a who is the star? Thing? Like you're
seeing timber Lake get a lot of crap late league
is he's not singing at his concerts, He's like holding
the mic to the crowd. But justin Timberlake was clely.
I got this feeling inside my bomb. I'm just gonna

(17:34):
hand the mic to the crowd. Now it's your job
to saying, guys, but like clearly, as much as you know,
no disrespect to Lance Bass and Joey Fittona and those
nice guys. But Timberlake was the star, right right, I mean,
But then there's ones where I'm like, I don't know,
you tell me if I say black Guyed Peas, was
it all Fergie or you? Like? No, those guys without her,
they all I think, guess eyed Peace. Without I think Will,

(17:59):
I am, like Will a star in his own right.
So I mean, there's an exam taboo always, So we'll
wrap it with your phone calls. Thanks for hearing me out, though,
And I know it sounds weird because I'm not the
biggest Kiss fan and I've never seen them live, and
I play them every weekend on another radio show. Grew
up listening to that stuff. But it really was such

(18:20):
a cool experience because he was such a cool and
humble guy. Got off of do you see a big
eighties rock star at coltstone Cream? Exactly? Whip cream on.
It's so random. So at least thanks for hearing me out.
I have ridiculous that sounds Tony in Oregon. What's up man?

Speaker 6 (18:35):
Hey, thanks to make the call. I do have a
band that when they're in their heyday, they were all
number one.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
But first it regardless to Paul Stanley, the burning question
in regards to the ice cream, did you ask did
he lock it up? Yeah? Bro, till Thursday. I did
play it off. So cool, Monty, you will appreciate this.
I I go to my daughter afterward, I'm like, you know,

(19:00):
oh that was She's like, oh, dad, friend from I
thought that was like one of your old pals or something.
I'm like, hey, so down, I'm not that old, but
your old classmate dad. Just to prove I did and
fanboy out. She thought it was just some guy I
knew because we were throwing it up for a good
like seven minutes or so. You know, it could be
your dad. Yeah, he could have been. Yeah, he couldn't

(19:20):
have three older than your dad. He's older than my dad.
But he looks fantastic. He really did, so I give
him promise for that. And he did seem to know
everything about Fox Sports Radio right here in town, right
down the street, like he was aware of what we did.
So I told him that I'd be calling him out.
That lick it up joke is great, great, Tony said.
He had an example to Tony. You're still there, buddy,
I'm yeah, what's up?

Speaker 7 (19:41):
Oh okay?

Speaker 6 (19:41):
So yeah, back in their day, man, the Eagles like
they were all number one, you know, uh from him
and Don Joe, Glenn a number one.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
That's a good that's that's a great one. Yeah, that
is because you need Don Henley, you need Glenn Fry,
you need all those dudes. The dude that's saying, I
can't tell you why I have another one for you.
I can't tell you his name. Go back yesterday we
talked about how Scottie Scheffler would give up a title
for the Cowboys to win a Super Bowl. When you

(20:09):
think of those nineties Cowboys teams, there last moments of glory.
No disrespect to Troy Aikman, you know, the White jay Z. Yeah,
no disrespect to Troy Aikman. That was It was Emmitt Smith,
it was Michael Irvin. It was the defense, offensive line,
Troy Aikman. That's a quarterback, but which should have been
the main star. But he really was, like say with
Terry Bradshaw, good quarterback, but it was that steel curtain

(20:31):
defense at Covino and Rich at Fox Sports Radio. You know,
I'm pretty pumped about this Mets trade. I know it's
a little piece, but it just shows that Mets are
trying to win. Now, Mantzi, you and Danny g may
be more familiar with this guy because you're NL West fans.
Tyler Rogers of the Giants at Submarine Sidearm Pitcher the

(20:54):
Mets face in the other day. He's hard to hit.
His eras are the one. So the Mets gave up
some notable p specs and the empty price was the
update on Soto though he's uh the icing his toe,
I don't know, make it a sea. I didn't see
if he was. I know we've found the ball off
his foot, off his leg and he was hobbling around. Yeah,

(21:16):
so congrats, moves are being made Tomorrow is the deadline,
and that'll give us more to talk about on the
Herd tomorrow, all the moves, the last minute moves, Austin
Slater to the Yanks. Rich's new picture, you'll hear more from.
He's not in the lineup today, so I'm guessing day
to day, but you will start to see that over
the next jeez. We have exactly twenty four and a

(21:39):
half hours because the trade deadline ends, I believe tomorrow
at six pm Eastern, So your team has roughly twenty
four hours right now to make that move you want
them to make. And again, for some teams, it's really
just getting that one extra lefty right out of the
bullpen that they feel they need. I don't think in
today's day and age, our buddy Dan Bayer said at

(21:59):
the other where everyone sort of feels like they're not
that far away because of the third wild card. I
don't think you're seeing a lot of teams make big,
big moves. But there's not gonna be a big, big move.
I don't think we'll see and we'll talk about it manyana.
Right right now, we'll wrap up with your phone calls
at A seven seven ninety nine on Fox when it's

(22:20):
hard to figure out who's the top biller of the band,
of the team, Yeah, because sometimes they share equal building. Right,
you can't say that Paul McCartney was a bigger star
than John Lennon. There was equal billing. They were all stars.
It's in their own right. Nwa, who is the bigger star?
Ice Cube, Easy E, Doctor dre I We're gonna say

(22:43):
ice Cube because Easy passed away. But at that time,
at that time, it was easy E, right, but you
could make a you could make a debate out of it.

Speaker 3 (22:51):
At the very beginning, Easy was the bigger solo artist
until ice Cube went off on his own.

Speaker 1 (22:55):
But they were all big stars. I ran into Paul
Stanley getting ice Scream yesterday and we're saying he's equally
as big of a star as Gene Simmons, if not bigger.
But who else comes to mind? You know you should
have done You should have quickly used some whipped cream
and fudge to make your own kiss face on yourself

(23:16):
run for the hills. Yeah, that wouldn't have been weird.
And by the way, he did, uh, just for the
sake of conversation order he ordered ter Reese's Peanut butter
awesome sauce. That's great. Yeah, it does say how did
Dan in Kansas City?

Speaker 6 (23:28):
Hey Dan, Hey, Hey, you know I got one sports
and one music. I don't want to be like Iowa
was Sam and take everybody.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
You got a reputation.

Speaker 6 (23:42):
Mahomes and Kelsey just because Kelsey and Taylor Swift.

Speaker 1 (23:46):
That's a great one.

Speaker 6 (23:46):
You saw whether they like each other. When's the last
time you saw Joe Perry and Steven Tyler apart?

Speaker 1 (23:55):
Those are great examples, man, those are your examples of
the other members are super famous. Yeah, Rolling Stones another example.
Keith Richards is a super famous guitar player. Mick Jagger
obviously is the star, but they all hold their own weight.
Thank you, Dan, appreciate you. I wonder and don't worry,

(24:16):
You're not gonna have to sit through this exercise. But
I wonder if we wrote down all thirty two NFL
teams and did a name the most famous big star
on this team, how many of the thirty two teams
would all six of us in this studio met match.
That was funny. There was I bet you twenty twenty five,
maybe maybe less. Aaron Judge is the captain and he's

(24:36):
the big star, but he admitted it recently, which was
sort of weird for him to say. Did you see that?
He's like, yeah, I'm I'm the guy. He's like, I'm
the guy, which is interesting because John Carlos Stanton is
also on that team. Garrett Coles on that Stanton is unk. Now, yeah,
Jazz Chisholm's not there, and but it's wild to see.
We all know he's the top biller, but he admitted

(24:58):
he's like he's the guy, because he's not like, yeah,
that's not right. Yeah, So let's wrap it up with Orlando.
Who do we got there? Sell in Orlando, Hey, Sheelle,
you're on the Cavino and Rich Show. And then we
got Manzi's update. Hey what's going on? Yeah? Hey, I'm
a child of the eighties actually raised in the nineties.
But I can't believe that someone hasn't been said yet.

Speaker 3 (25:16):
But tell me a time in history when the bassis
has taken Top Building over the lead singer Red Hot
Chili Peppers to flee over Anthony Ketis.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
That's a great example. These players are freedy. That is
a fantastic answer, because well, I love the Chili Peppers.
Anthony keatas legend. Flee was in Back to the Future too.
Flea's done acting we all know, just such a dynamic
bass player. Yeah, you know what. The other example, not
as cool shell would be Pete Wentz a fallout boy
because he dated Ashley Simpson in the two thousands and

(25:45):
he's sort of a notable guy. I don't think any
I bet you people don't even realize Patrick Stump is
the main due Paul McCartney was a bass player. Just
for the record, But hey, that's a great one. Thanks
for Sharon. We'll take the rest of your answer. The
base slap in the bass shout out to mercerman in Pittsburgh,

(26:06):
Rich speaking of the Pirates. Yeah, he said, you gotta
give Tom Morello props too, because he wasn't the lead
in Rage Against the Machine or Audio Save, but is
his own superstar and his own right. It's a great one.
It's usually the lead singer that gets all the accolades,
all the props, talking top billing today sometimes it's hard

(26:28):
to figure out who the superstar is. Is it Covino
or Rich oh Man. You know, we are a rare
show in that. I don't think people think there's a lead,
and there really isn't like we know what's at all
other duo shows, there's usually like here, Fox, what's ready?
I heard a phrase like this, Someone's like in the
driver's seat or the main seat? Is that a thing? Right?

(26:49):
Like like that night like Jason Smith and Mike Harmon, Yeah,
with Mike Harmon.

Speaker 3 (26:54):
This show used to be the Covino Show with Rich
and then Rich got promoted.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
Yeah, I know, now it's cove and then it was
the Rich David Show with Guiermo. I mean Cavino. No,
you know what. It's true though. We are a rarity,
and it's been told to us from management and upper
management of it's rare when a show is split down
the middle like a pair of butt cheeks fifty fifty
couples depending on yeah, because we're a couple of asses,

(27:21):
depending on the discussion, it doesn't matter. But baseball teams,
football teams, Yeah, basketball team. Sometimes it's hard to figure
out who the top star is. And we're gonna wrap
it up with Rich's thought, but first to play the day, Yeah,
let's do this. We are live from the Fox Sports
Radio studio and Cal Rowley wasn't having a season. He's
having people might be talking about this catcher, your dude,

(27:43):
Will Smith, and the pitch to Willie swings. He drills
up to left field. This ball's gonna head back and
bounce off the track and off the wall. I'm in around.

Speaker 5 (27:51):
Second, he's on his way to third.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
He's being waved home.

Speaker 5 (27:54):
The cutoff is dropped, head first, slide safe, and Will
Smith the liver is with two outsh He gets the
go ahead run in and the Dodgers laid at five
to four.

Speaker 1 (28:05):
Five to four. The Dodgers win. This courtesy of AM
five seventy Dodgers Audio Network. You know, interestingly enough, I
think when you listen to radio shows and podcasts, not
even on this network, You're right there is someone that
usually like starts every segment or reads the commercial. We
might be the only show that doesn't have that system.
I'm not saying it's always ego, but it's usually ego, right,

(28:29):
and what makes Covino and Rich last so long as
you try to put that aside, and it's just, you know,
depending on who's more passionate about that discussion as usually
who's leading it. But otherwise it's always a back and forth.
But I ran into Paul Stanley of Kiss yesterday, and
I said, oh, that makes you better than me. Though
I said that Kiss is Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley

(28:51):
and but collectively it was all of the characters that
made the band. But he was equally, if not more,
of the star of Kiss. Well to prove that point,
which is interesting, usually the lead singer is the star.
In the NFL, it's the quarterback. And I said, I
wasn't gonna do this, but I couldn't resist. God damn
it good. I went to AFC. The sixteen teams in
the AFC, in my mind, eleven of the sixteen teams,

(29:13):
the quarterback is the face. And I think five of
the teams in the AFC the quarterback is not the face.
Oh wow, so that we're not playing big guessing games.
Let's go through each division real quick and see if
you agree. Okay, and then we'll do power rankings next time. Well,
we'll talk about your NFL. Have some fun. AFC East
Buffalo Josh Allen, Josh Allen. I think Miami is one

(29:34):
of the exceptions. I think Tyreek Hill would be the
number one guy on that team as far as like notability.
People know him. I don't think it's too It could
even be Mike McDaniels the coach sometimes because I feel
the same about Denver, So that's who I think. Miami
one of the teams, So I think Tyreek would be
your guy. I think because there's not many stars of

(29:54):
the team, Drake May and New England because I don't
know if you could even name like the average person
will be on who's on New England and the Jets.
I think Sauce Gardner because Justin Field is new and
Sauce is a character, right, So so I think two
of them are in the AFC East. Then you go
to the North Cincinnati Burrough, Pittsburgh, Aaron Rodgers, Baltimore Lamar.

(30:14):
I think Miles Garrett and Cleveland because they don't know
what's going on with the quarterbacks. So I think right
now Cleveland fans will be like, Miles Garrett, Miles Garretts
are our guy. So that makes three third team. Yeah,
are we all in agreement so far? Yeah, let's go south.
I think three more quarterbacks Tennessee the rookie camp Ward
because that they have a lot of high hopes. Jacksonville
still Trevor Lawrence, and Houston C. J. Stroud. I think

(30:37):
Indianapolis Jonathan Taylor, because I think you're like Richardson Daniel Jones.
It's Jonathan Telly your running back right now, that's your fourth.
And I think in the AFC, West mahomes Herbert and
bo Nix with the asterisks of Sean Payton being you know,
the star. I think right now Max Crosby the Raiders

(31:01):
is the fifth in the AFC. I think I think
I nailed this by the way, I think face that
team face of the team, eleven of the sixteen AFC team.
So this happens, but it's the lead singer. Yeah, it's
the lead singer thing. It's the Raiders would be an
example of the bass players the main guy. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (31:18):
Although now I think they'll split the screen a little
bit with Geno Smith.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
Yeah that's true. If Geno plays well, I think you're right.
But as a right because I thought Brock Bowers, now
he's a tight end that needs a quarterback, you know,
Like so the AFC, you're looking at two out of three,
you know, eleven of the sixteen and our quarterbacks, because
that's who and if the face of your team isn't
the quarterback, there's a likely chance. You're you're in trouble

(31:43):
for your Niners. Would it be McCaffrey or your boy party.
Maybe we'll get to the NFC later, Danny, Yeah, the
show the NFC, and of course we're going to go
over some of the Powell rankings in the NFL. Idiotic fans,
now it works. All do this every year, especially in
baseball and basketball, and the trade deadline approaches, they'll be like,
we should give up, and they'll talk about like bunk

(32:05):
middle relief guys and they want to get a slugger
from another team. So you'll hear it happen at least
once over the next twenty four hours. Yeah, depending on
the moves that are made, shows you how much their
heart's really in it in my opinion, and the Yankees
no offense. The guy's a big leaguer, so my opinion
doesn't matter much and I hope he lights it up.

(32:26):
But Austin Slater doesn't say that the Yankees are really
going for it in my opinion. We've talked about this
with behind the scenes people, GMS of teams. By the way,
he might end up being one of my favorite players
that I root for, but that's how I feel. I
think when you hear GM speak and we've spoke to
people behind the scenes before, where fans don't realize that

(32:46):
there's so many things that need to happen. First of all,
these other players need to be available, they need to
want what you're giving up, and it all needs to
work out so perfectly. There's money considerations involved, Like just
because you're like, man, who's the third basement you did want?
He just got hit play pitch you Suarez I call

(33:10):
him Eugenium, calls Eugenio, I call him Mugeno, calls him Eugenio. Kids,
that kid's a stud player, right, he has like thirty
something home runs already, he has a busted hand. No, no,
here's the thing. What if the Yankees like, yo, we
want Suarez And what if they say, right there, uh,
Yankees front off and this is what rich my father says,

(33:31):
everything's negotiable. Yeah, this isn't Pee Wee's big adventure. Everybody's
got a price. You're not, You're not the Buckston's What
if Uh, what if your dude Brian Cashman's like, yeah,
I'm not giving up what you want, then it's a
no deal. And then what do you rather do you
want to getrez if it means the Yankees giving up
all their prospects and maybe one guy on the roster,

(33:54):
we'll see the moves. We'll talk about it tomorrow in
for the Herd, Covino and Rich, So tune in early tomorrow.
But we got lots to get through this hour Midweek
major the biggest stories in sports and pop culture, Mike's
Wednesday Words of Wisdom. We will be giving out prizes
in the form of IOUs so we'll explain. Yeah, we'll explain.
But you promised we talk NFL Power Rankings, like you said.

(34:16):
It's NFL Eve. Yeah, so let's get into it. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (34:19):
This says the twenty twenty five NFL Power Rankings, according
to NFL on Fox. They put this out one of
their lead NFL guys, Ralph Facciano.

Speaker 1 (34:28):
He compiled this Ralph fet on, middle name Gabago.

Speaker 3 (34:34):
So NFL on Fox, I have it in front of me,
one through fifteen.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
I'll take from you, guys. See how good you are.
Let me pull up the stand. Let me pull up
the richest cheating, already cheating. I'm just looking at the division.
So I got my right gate here top fifteen. You say, huh.

Speaker 3 (34:50):
Top fifteen NFL teams going into preseason, no particular order. Well, yeah,
I have the fifteen, but yeah, you guys shon, just
guess the top ten and where you think.

Speaker 1 (34:58):
They would start off? A the Eagles number one, bam.
Not that hard. But yeah, I'm gonna say just based
on not much has change of anything. They tried to
revamp a little bit the revenge tour of the Kansas
City Chiefs. Chiefs number three on the list, better believe it.
Whoa Mama Chubby? Number one? So who do you think
is number two? Then number two? Lamar Jackson and Company, Baltimore. Boom,

(35:25):
I'll go Buffalo Bills number four. Bam. All right. So
now that we got that out of the way, it's
a little harder. Now. Now let's dive in a little more.
I think there is a sentiment that Detroit will remain
very competitive. No, I was surprised by this. They have
Detroit number nine. Wow. All right, I'm going out on

(35:48):
a limb here, and I'm saying, especially after fresh after
watching quarterback, the Bengals were so close to so many games,
luck has to swing their way a little more. This
year is going to bring it Bengals got to be
in it.

Speaker 3 (36:01):
You guys are going in reverse order. Now they have
Bengals number eight.

Speaker 1 (36:04):
Okay, okay, all right, let's got to close it down
seven to four. Let's keep that reverse going. And I
don't want to be a homer, but they have the
easiest softest schedule in the history of schedules, and they're
healthy and brock perty Son the deal. I think the
Niners are still so very in the mix.

Speaker 3 (36:21):
This is going to grind your gears, Rich Fox. The
power rankings here by Ralph and Company have the Niners
at number eighteen.

Speaker 1 (36:30):
Wh what, Yeah, we need a break. I'm Richea. That
is wild, dude.

Speaker 3 (36:40):
Your Niners are closer to my Raiders than the Eagles
at number one.

Speaker 1 (36:44):
Yo, dare I say this is the most bunk thing
I've heard ever. I think you were kind of expecting this, though,
because I thought you were going to say, oh, Rich,
they stuck in the number twelve or fourteen. Oh no.

Speaker 3 (36:53):
A couple of weeks ago you said a lot of
people have counted your team out going into this.

Speaker 1 (36:57):
I promise you this. There's a reason why Niners over
under in Vegas. I think it's eleven and a half
or twelve games. They may flounder in the postseason, but
they're going to be an inflated team this year because
when I tell you, look at the forty nine ers schedule,
they don't play the Eagles, they don't play Buffalo, they
don't play Baltimore, they don't play the Chiefs. The Niners
don't play They might as well be playing like the

(37:18):
Colts every week. They honestly the Cardinals their divisions of
the week. I mean, the Rams certainly must be on
this stupid list.

Speaker 3 (37:25):
Then noam no WAMIs you guys have one strike, So
rams ms Rams are number twelve, okay, so they're in
the top fifteen.

Speaker 1 (37:35):
Washington Commanders have to be shooting up boom continuing to
go backwards their number seven. Damn, I'm bringing the boom.
Bro Who you got, Rich? I got? I got the
next one? Should I just say it? I think there's
a lot of people high on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
this year. Buccaneers at number eleven on their LISK. Okay,
so they're there. There's people that think the Bucks are
better than the Niners. Yeah, there's a lot of buzz

(37:56):
on the Bucks and Baker Mayfield he may people better.

Speaker 3 (38:02):
So we're looking for number you still have five, six, ten,
and thirteen through fifteen.

Speaker 1 (38:09):
Hmmm, no emmy, no emmy, no emmy. Someone's here's the problem, though,
Someone's got to come out of the AFC South, and
I think none of them deserve it. Houston, Houston Texans
number thirteen, right, they got there? You go Texans? Yeah,
we got to find number five and number six is

(38:29):
someone inflating?

Speaker 7 (38:32):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (38:32):
I'm sorry. Does give me people that are hiring the
Packers because they always are packers? Yes? Number five? Yeah,
packers jam You know, I think they love your boy
Golden the new wide receiver there? What about? What about
they finally think the Chargers will get it together?

Speaker 3 (38:46):
Chargers number ten always always in the top ten every preseason,
though many.

Speaker 1 (38:51):
Chargers top ten. Right, So we we're missing number six, thirteen, fourteen,
fifteen yep. So has to be like, come on, man,
are you serious? We get we need six thirteen, fourteen
and fifteen or not six fourteen and fifteen? Still? Who's
thirteen thirteen? Texans? Oh? I said that, You're right? Yes,
So we have one strike with the Niners. That's embarrassing.

(39:11):
You know, I'm fine with that strike. Are we thinking
Bears are finally non naked and don't give that's a
second strike? I think I don't know, man, there's always
gonna be like a super pig. No, because remember why
lists are made. Listener made so people discussed. So they're
gonna like you're gonna be like Bears are number but
Green Bay and the Lions are on this list. That's

(39:33):
two teams in there, right, Sorry, don't count that one today.
All right, you gotta someone's gonna come out of the South.

Speaker 3 (39:38):
And you said, by the way, smart decision, dub Bears
number seventeen.

Speaker 1 (39:42):
Oh good, Okay, See now I'm feeling good about that.
I'm just thinking there's gonna be once surprise. I'm gonna
give you one because I think, oh no, because we've
already said it, I'm gonna say it anyway. Denver Broncos
just outside at number sixteen. Sorry, second strike, fairly better
than the Bears.

Speaker 3 (39:59):
Pa, your last strike. And you have three teams left
on the board.

Speaker 1 (40:02):
All right, we're gonna have to discuss before we answer, right, right,
So can we know we need five and six? No, no,
we have number we are missing number six, number six, six,
fourteen and fifteen. So two are borderline teams and one
is clearly top ten and we're just missing it. I'm
gonna look at I'm gonna be so aggravated when I

(40:23):
figure out who we're thinking of. Titans. No, if you
tell me it's it's not those, it's not the Seahawks,
you can't tell me they see it. But then again,
if they're ranking the Niner so low, oh, I know
who it is. I know who it is. They're setting up.
Dak Prescott is the Cowboy because there's no advancer. No,
because if Vegas they're Vegas over under is seven wins
there Vegas says there are gonna be seven. But these lists,

(40:44):
there's always gonna be a surprise on the list, Like,
come on, man, he can't be serious. That's why they
do these dumb ass lists. There's gotta be a there's
not a lot of teams left that are even Like,
in contention of.

Speaker 8 (40:55):
The conversations yesterday when we were talking about the Cowboys,
I ran it through the chat cheept per day. No, No,
the shot TBT says the Cowboys could go nine and
eight this season.

Speaker 1 (41:04):
Woo oh oh Aaron Rodgers, Oh, Steelers, don't you dare. Yeah,
that's locked Steelers.

Speaker 3 (41:13):
You locked it in and the Steelers are number six
list fucking.

Speaker 1 (41:23):
Why so wait? Wait, so do we need three to fourteen,
fourteen and fifteen? We have one strike? One strike left?
All right? You got to decide is Michael Pennock Junior
with Atlanta gonna do? Is he respected more than you?
Gotta think? Who are they respecting more than the forty
nine Ers and Bears? Because aren't the forty nine Ers
and Bears what like seventeen and eighteen, sixteen and seventeen

(41:44):
or is on the rent? Yeah? Sixteen, so the outside
looking in now seventeen and.

Speaker 3 (41:48):
Eighteen, Broncos at sixteen, Bears at seventeen, Niners at eighteen.

Speaker 1 (41:53):
So Broncos, Bears and Niners. That's surprising. All three of
those teams could very well be played. Still think the
Cowboys are up there? Man, No, I think you're you
don't want to lock that come in? I mean about
the yeah, Falcons? Yeah, maybe the Falcons. All right, let's
do Falcons lock it in? Are you locking in the Falcons?
I pressed my button, Rich you press You're rocked it in?
All right, We're locked.

Speaker 3 (42:13):
It on the twenty twenty five power rankings here NFL
on Fox they have the Falcons at number twenty five.

Speaker 1 (42:25):
About the Cowboys, dude, No, they have the Cowboys at nineteen.
Who do we miss at fourteen and fifteen?

Speaker 3 (42:31):
At fourteen the Cardinals, Oh yeah, this honestly, and number
fifteen the Vikings. Yeah, mistaking, don'tkay?

Speaker 1 (42:41):
That's fair? Wayhy do we always sleep on Minnesota teams? Dude?
Can I tell you something cold? I was cold?

Speaker 5 (42:47):
There?

Speaker 1 (42:48):
The simple You want the rest of the list really quick?

Speaker 3 (42:51):
I told you seventeen and eighteen nineteen Cowboys, twenty Jags, Seahawks,
twenty one, Patriots, Raiders, Dolphins, Falcons, Giant, Jets, Panthers, Colts, Titans, Saints,
and Browns in last place at thirty two.

Speaker 1 (43:04):
Wow. You know list isn't too bad list. They're made
to be debated, so I respect. I respect. The year
R forty nine Ers is the big controversy here. I
think the big and putting the Steelers at number six
Steelers itself, it should be like now and say flipped.
But yeah, those are the two surprises. But I mean,
let's say I would we already established Steelers are a
nine to ten win team easily I'm not saying I

(43:26):
would bet my home on it, but I had bet
a substantial amount of money that the forty nine ers
are better than the Arizona Cardinals this year. I can't.
I'm flabbergasted that they would put the Cardinals above the
forty nine ers. Like the forty nine ers. Yeah, they
lost a couple key components, but the forty nine ers

(43:47):
don't be too flabbergasts that nobody knows anything. It's all
a big guessing game based on wow, based on last
season and the moves that were made. But still you
never know good good, as I believe George Kittle said
on The Dan Patrick Show. I love that there's no

(44:10):
George Kittle saying, like the fact that there's no drama
or storyline about the forty nine is like that they're
almost a little boring right now. Oh good good, Sorry,
we can't entertain we found a storyline. Both Christian McCaffrey
and Brock Purty both new dads. Oh is that what
they're thinking. They're going to be changing diapers at three
in the morning. They're gonna be too tired to compete? Well,

(44:31):
is there a I mean, it's so weird because I'm
sewing baseball mode. Now. McCaffrey is like one hundred percent
going into the season unless something happened that I don't
know about. So Christian McCaffrey alone with a healthy brock
Ayuk will eventually be back in the mix. George Kittle said,

(44:51):
I don't understand why. Yeah, they're superstars on paper. Who's
got a top billing? We don't know. People. People think
they're those closed and uh, I'm trying to decide if
I'm looking at through homer glasses or if their window
really did close. I don't know all your thoughts on that.
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(47:20):
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Speaker 7 (49:28):
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Speaker 8 (50:37):
I don't know what I'm gonna do with all this time,
all right? I will so if you, if you, if
you want to parent like the coat. Tom Brady just
dropped some parenting advice on his one ninety nine news letter.
It appeared like he was offering advice to golfer Scottie Scheffler,

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who has been struggling with being away from his family
while on tour. So Brady said that while it's tough
to be away from family to be an elite athlete,
it's the work on the field which makes pro competitors
great parents. Quote my dedication to the sport, the hours
of practice, the moments when I was laser focused. Those
were times I was doing the best possible thing for

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my family and my kids by prioritizing my profession and
teaching by example what it takes to.

Speaker 1 (51:25):
Be really good at your job.

Speaker 8 (51:26):
He also went on to say, remember your children are
watching everything. They see what you do in every aspect
of your life and how you do it. Of course,
fans are alluding to the fact that he's throwing a
little bit of shade at his ex Gazelle, who criticized
Tommy's dedication to the game and not his family. If
you recall, on this very show, I said that Tom
Brady hates his family, So I did. I did when

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he went back to it when he came out of retirement.
So a lot of people getting for that. But good
advice done the last midweek or major.

Speaker 1 (51:54):
This is major, and I'll tell you why because it's listen,
it's Tom Brady. He's the most winning you know, maybe
not the greatest of all time, but the goat when
it comes to the Guy's a winner seven super Bowls.
That's more than every organization, right, I mean when you
think about it that way. So yes, he dedicated time
and effort to the craft, and what a great example
for his kids to show hard work and how it

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pays off everything from the TV twelve workout to you
name it. Tom Brady's the guy. But when he's talking
to Scotti Scheffler, it's tough because tom Brady's dedication resulting
in him sacrificing what's family. So he's given advice about
making yourself a great example to your kids, but that

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ultra dedication is sort of what led to the demise
of his marriage and why he doesn't see his kids
all the time. So it's major, but it also feels
like a little bit of a justification because of that. Rich, Yeah,
I sacrificed my family, but I always teaching him how
to be a great leader and champion. And that's all true.

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But his family did pay the price as a result.
But you know what, they also reaped the benefits. And
I often say, we had this discussion today Rich on
our Patreon. Yeah, your hard work is justified when you're
able to splurge on your kids, like, hey, you know what,
we are gonna get the lightning Pass and the fast Pass,

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and we are going to go on vacation. We are
going to get that toy you on and that's why
dad works hard. We are going to go to Coldstone Creamery.
We're gonna go to Colt. That's why Dad puts in
the extra. We will see Paul Stanley. Yeah, So I
mean I think that's all part of it. Your kids
do reap the benefits. Yeah, I know you're saying, it's
just it's interesting. I'm not saying Tom Brady shouldn't get

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parenting advice. But he you know, one of the few
things you could say negative about Tom is that football
did take a priority.

Speaker 8 (53:46):
So you know, there you go. Thank you, fot you
could me on that if you know what. That's why
bull take Tom Brady hates his family all right. Well,
speaking of Tom Brady, remember we were speculating if at
the Bezos wedding that he and Sidney Sweeney, you know,
the girl with the good jeans and Sidney Sweeney, had
a little bit of a hookup.

Speaker 1 (54:02):
Well, it's possible that maybe he's not her type.

Speaker 8 (54:04):
So WNBA star Sophie Cunningham, who's also a stunning blonde,
said that Tom Brady is not her type of guy
because she's into quote, more of a manly man. Cunningham
was talking about Brady on the first episode of her
news show Me Something podcast, talking with her friend TV
personality Wes Wilson. You said he recently met Brady, and

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Cunningham asked how much botox he has. She said she
likes more of a manly man, doesn't want her man
having botox botox at his face, alluding to the Brady
looking like he's had work done and There's been a
lot of speculation. He looks like handsome squid word maybe
he has. Cunningham twenty eight years old, currently in her
first season at the Indiana Fever, so maybe she kind
of has the eye of the younger girl.

Speaker 1 (54:44):
So that might take Sidney Sweet out of the mix.
Maybe creak this is this is mid and I'll tell
you what I love. No, I do not yet. Sophie
Cunningham beautiful you mean Sophie Stunningham. Thanks, I came up
with that. You should make some shirts. Sophie's Stunningham is hot,
she's cool. I like what she's brought to the w

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n B. A defending Caitlyn Clark. This is the first misstep.
Who says Tom Brady wants you anyway? And number two,
he's so lucky Sophie Cunningham, if Tom Brady would look
your way. Tom Brady is a pimp. Tom Brady is
the man tom Brady, I mean, Sophie Cunningham. If they
were a power couple, tom Brady.

Speaker 2 (55:27):
Would be the come on, this is you know why
Sophie Cunningham isn't interested in Tom Brady is because he
won't eat Arby's roast beef.

Speaker 1 (55:36):
That's the real problem. Do you guys know about that shirt? No,
she had.

Speaker 2 (55:40):
She wore a shirt to a game that was like
hot girls eat at Arby's and.

Speaker 1 (55:43):
It's like becoming a viral thing.

Speaker 8 (55:46):
Thanks for clarifying that. You gotta clarify your Tom Brady
will not touch Arby's. Leave the roast peep at home.
I think this is a mid story. No one cares
manly man, How do you define that? Tom Brady is
the man amongst men? Every guy adores them, So how

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is he not the man or a manly man?

Speaker 1 (56:10):
He's a football superstar. What's a manly man? Jeremiah Johnson?
You have to have a burly beard, Like what is
a manly man? Richard carn Like, you know what, maybe
maybe I got a chance with You have to have
a big beard and like be working under a car.
What I mean, he's a football super but I know,

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but I get what you say. He is pretty like
he goes against because he doesn't mean of himself that
means he's soft. That doesn't mean he's soft. That guy
competes on the highs of levels with the toughest of pophy.
He wants to be exactly I want a stinky fat
guy I saw on TMZ. Just I saw Tom Brady
on TMZ with like his glistening tan abs. Maybe she

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doesn't want that. You know what, man, that's fine, and
you know, I'm sure he doesn't want that. He alright right.

Speaker 8 (57:02):
Over to the Lakers. Luca has been slimming down a
lot recently. I know we've joken about his way, but
he has been slimming down. Despite speculation, the Laker has
shut down any ruvers that he's doing it with the
help of drugs drugs as system do zepic. While appearing
on Today This Morning, host Craig Melman actually asked the
question everyone's been thinking. He said, no zepic, none of
those shots or anything. Luca quickly shut it down, saying

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that his trim look is the result of diet and
exercise and that he actually took a full month off
of basketball to focus solely on his fitness. This is insulting, Okay, continue,
I was gonna say he was featured on the summer
edition of Men's Health looking frim as well, so maybe
stepping it up. He's got some potential contract extension coming
up as soon as August.

Speaker 1 (57:45):
Second, so who knows Midwica major, major, definitely major. It's
insulting to a twenty five year old guy. He is not.
He's not a fifty year old guy or a mom
who's trying to bounce back after having kids middle age.
He's a twenty five year old guy. To speculate that
him getting in shape, you're like most beyond Ozempic or

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he's a twenty five year old elite athlete who could
probably just turn it on for a couple of months.
Give me no, When you were twenty something and you
wanted to get trim, you could probably do it in
a few weeks. You remember those days where like you'd
eat healthy for a month. Even I did it at
twenty five. It was easy, Like eat healthy for a month.
When you're twenty five, you're fine with if you were
he asking a forty five year old. That's different. Twenty

(58:27):
five insulting. Lucas should be like ozempic, You got your mind,
you buffoons. Who is the fat guy in Teen Wolf
Chubby Chubs? It's not like he was Chubbs from teen Wolf.
Now he was, yeah, kind of one. You cut out
the booze and you eat right, you lose some weight.
It's not that hard, especially when you're that young. He's not.
He wasn't that fat. He was just a little soft,

(58:50):
so give me a break. He wasn't on and off
the court. He was that in and out burger. He
dieted some. He made fitness a priority, and it's the
biggest revenge he could have had. It's like the kiss
my ass, Look at me now to Dallas and props
to him. He also admitted, I don't know if you
saw this, but he was at the Yankees broadcast recently
and they asked him, Michael Kay's, like you ever played baseball?

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He's like only the we only on the wei. But
they also talked about just to diet and cleaning it
up and changing priorities. Good for him, man. I think
it's a major story, all right.

Speaker 8 (59:22):
A little beef is brewing between former former baseball player
Philly John Cruck and Chicago Sky star Angel Rees.

Speaker 1 (59:31):
Well, I know.

Speaker 8 (59:32):
The play by play commentator Tom McCarthy was wishing his
friend a happy birthday, who happened to be his former
high school basketball player teammate. He said he was a
heck of a basketball player. Because McCarthy said, I missed
a lot of shots and he cleaned that up, and
then Kruck took that as an opportunity to throw a
jab at Angel Reese. McCarthy said, I don't want to
say anything or no. Crux said, I don't want to

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say anything, but there's someone here in Chicago who does
that a lot. McCarthy said, that's true. She gets her points,
and then Crux said she gets her rebounds too, alluding
to the fact that Reese has been patting her stats,
you know, getting her knee bounds as she refers to them. Yeah,
and then Reese has actually responded saying, you know, clout
is all one hell of a drug.

Speaker 1 (01:00:13):
Really gets to a point.

Speaker 8 (01:00:14):
She also went on her TikTok saying to anybody that's
been mean to me and you're having a hard time
in life.

Speaker 7 (01:00:19):
Good.

Speaker 8 (01:00:19):
So we'll see if the jabs continue back and forth.
But it's getting a little steam on social media in
Midweek or Major.

Speaker 1 (01:00:24):
I rolling Lee mid I love John Cruck. No one
knows who Angel Reese is compared to John Kruck. John Kruck,
what John Kruck would reverse that. John John Kruck is
a major superstar that played in All Star Games and
was a staple in baseball. Angel Reese is part of
the league that no one cared about until a year ago.

Speaker 2 (01:00:46):
But like on like Instagram and like all social media,
i'd say like she has like millions of followers.

Speaker 1 (01:00:52):
John Crook is most known for putting his helmet on backwards. Yeah,
but I love him. She's a colorful guy. But John
Kruk has accomplished some which more in his life than
Angel Reese. This is embarrassing for her. Huh. It's a
weird beef, like you said, roast speaking of beef. On
a positive note, what's say I saw our buddy. I

(01:01:14):
think it's a mid story. It's a weird beef, like
you don't want to like cut up a young woman
in any weird way. And I don't think that was
John Crook's real intention here. He sort of was vague
about it. On a positive I saw Jeff Perlman say
that Angel Reese is an all school elbow throwing, rebound
grabbing Oakley esque sort of baller. We need to appreciate her.

(01:01:36):
So she plays a different game, a tough game. Not
everyone's gonna love it. It's a mid story, all right,
thanks guys, thank yous about I just I just think
some of these WNBA players are just delusional. I promise
you this. I've said it before. If they stop playing
for some holdout, they'll never play again. Right, That's my thing?

Speaker 8 (01:01:56):
Is that why someone's throw a toy on the court
very a game yesterday with that up on?

Speaker 1 (01:02:01):
I don't know what that's all around this? What do
you tell us in your update? What to Was it
monster a toy that's not suitable for work? Was it
man at arms? A toy you would use in the evening?
Maybe a lady you know, just look it up. But
it was a time.

Speaker 3 (01:02:20):
It was a tide game with one minute left and
this item went flying onto the court.

Speaker 1 (01:02:25):
Lime Green couldn't make it. Camera even pants to it
for childhood. Yes, yes, it is exactly what it was exactly.
It was perfect, no, you know, but it was like
a tie game with one minute to go. It's hilarious.

(01:02:47):
Bad promo items or wingy like Black Sheep said, the
choice is yours. Oh you know, since yesterday was National
wing Day, break out those lemon pepper, break out, those
Asian zing or what are the ones you like? The
honey barbecue. Honey barbecue. Yeah, let me just make a
couple things clear now. The same annoying conversations come up

(01:03:09):
every time when someone says wings, So I will touch
on them without talking about them. We will not have
the tired conversation of blue cheese a ranch because he
answers blue cheese. Next second thing, Wow, your ranch is
pretty good though blue cheese. The second blue cheese tastes
rotten the.

Speaker 2 (01:03:28):
Second blue cheese. A lot of people are not teen
blue cheese.

Speaker 1 (01:03:31):
I'l cheese. I said, we weren't talking about it. People
love to debait that stupid thing. Secondly, people love to
say boneless wings or just chicken nuggets. I don't care.
I still love them, me too. You get then I'm
eating Then I'm eating nuggies. Joked on the I love wings,
but I also love boneless. Who doesn't stop being pretentious sauce?
You're allowed to have boneless wings? Don't call me a baby?

(01:03:52):
Do you some sort of sophisticated highbrow advance a pilate?
Do you think you're better than me because you like
the bone? Please? You're more like we're all Guy Fieri,
None of us are you know we're all having donkey
sauce anyway, that's good sauce that is good sauce. Dan Patrick,
those two debates, that's right up there, like dan Patrick.
To me, those two debates are right af there with
Jordan or Lebron James get your drops right, that's Ben Malley.

(01:04:14):
So blue cheese and bonus swings are fine for me.
My final question, and I think it's so funny because
we saw Rob Parker have a fit about this. Our
buddy Rob Parker on the Odd Couple, he lost his mind.
We were at the Super Bowl and he asked the
waiter can you bring me all flats? All flats all
the time, like a mix of them, but I will

(01:04:37):
go for the flats over the drumsticks. But Rob Parker
put up a fit.

Speaker 4 (01:04:42):
He's like, what do you mean you can't do all flats?
My head spinning off like he was so mad. I
knew that what would you go for? Monte know you're
not a meat eater, but what would you go for?
Guys fellas, what would you do wing?

Speaker 1 (01:04:55):
When you do wings? Drumsticks? Are the flats drumsticks?

Speaker 3 (01:04:58):
For me?

Speaker 1 (01:04:59):
Rum doings? That was That's the thing I missed the
most of my life. Drummies, drummies, you're going easier to eat,
easier to easier to dip. It's what I'm not breaking
anything apart like it's what I'm going for first, without
a doubt. You know that we learned with us, and
all of you could eat wings with Rob Parker and
be in ebony and ivory, perfect harmony. That's right. He'll

(01:05:23):
take the flat, he'll take the drumsticks, and all is good.
Who thought wings were so controversial? I know exactly. We
will see you, guys manyana in for the herd. Until then,
have a great night there. May see you in the promise. Guys,