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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
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searching FSR. Can we talk about a team that might

(00:23):
be ass Do you mean the Miami Dolphins? Yeah? Yeah, dude,
the Miami Dolphins very well could be you know, awful,
and you know, it just just makes you realize. Mike McDaniel,
who is so loved as a forty nine Ers offensive coordinator,

(00:47):
I got the I got the opportunity to end up
looking at breath of fresh air for a minute, right,
look at the conventional type of coach in the NFL.
It was like a you know, nerdy looking dude that
was so that, you know, started off off as a
young man in the organization and a guy that worked
his way up the football ranks. He had a cool story,
He had a cool vibe about him. I'm not saying

(01:09):
that he's not that cool. I'm saying that maybe he's
just rubbing people different nowadays. Well, My feeling is that
I'll give the analogy. You know, how you overlook things sometimes,
like if you're dating a really beautiful woman, you sort
of overlook her flaws because you're just like, ah, she's
like real hot, and then the hotness fades when you realize, oh, wow,

(01:31):
there's things I don't like about her. Yeah. Reality sets it, Yeah,
reality sets it. I think with Mike McDaniel, not only
as an offensive coordinator, but as a head coach, like
snark don't mix with losing, and his like snark don't mix.
It's his whole stick, which isn't really a stick. It's him.
His snarky, funny, sarcastic vibe only works when you're winning. Like, hey,

(01:53):
we're catching up with coach Mike McDaniel and he's like
running to the locker room, and the you know, sideline
reporters like there he look at him, being all silly.
That Mike McDaniel vibe only works, I think when you're winning,
because when you aren't winning, his whole vibe just come
across as apathetic. Take a listen to him after Game
one when they got an ass whapon.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
He's the captain of the franchise.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
Quarterback, and everybody kind of fell victim to something similar.
I also know that he's very very much like a
lot most quarterbacks, to be honest, where you're putting a
lot of work into something and your first time doing

(02:37):
it for a collective four quarters in months, you're not
at your best?

Speaker 1 (02:45):
What's this guy talking about? And then you know the
other Mike McDaniel, he sounds like that pageant girl when
Mario Lopez asked her question, yes, of course, She's like
like yeah and such and whatnot? Well that and when
he even said like, well, the good thing is I
can't go out worse that type of stuff. Mike McDaniel
talking about Tua seemed like he was tongue tied or

(03:09):
at a loss for words or I don't know. That's
not how a head coach talks to the press. It's
a really weird comment, really weird SoundBite. Everything about it.
It almost feels like it's ai like that can't be real?
Can that be real? And it is real? And like
Rich just mentioned, very apathetic after the game. With his comments,

(03:30):
it's almost sotude about their play on the field. You know,
it's almost a vibe like he knows the inevitable reality,
and that's he's probably gonna be the first coach fire
this year. It seems that way if they don't turn
it around, well, if they lose this week to the Patriots,
they played the Bills week three and then the Jets
week four, which are not easy games. That Jets look

(03:51):
pretty good in the Bills please come on, so they
could very well start zero and four and that's that's
the end of Mike McDaniel.

Speaker 4 (03:57):
Unfortunately, I love the comments underneath this McDaniel clip that's
gone viral. The first fan says, this man is not
a leader. He is an absolutely horrible public speaker. How
can a group of fifty three men gather around this
guy and be inspired to play ridiculous again?

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Then based on that, yeah, like, based on that for real,
I completely agree. I don't want to dump on a
guy in one bad moment. But they made the Colts
look like superstars this past weekend. Daniel Jones look like
Lamar Jackson out there. He looked like he's the MVP

(04:34):
of the league against that team, and that was the
way he handled the press. Well, that was just as
bad as that was just as bad as how they
looked on the field, if not worse, he's no better
than what we saw on in the game. It was
really really embarrassing when you see other head coaches in
the NFL really fire up their team. Yeah, and I
know they lost Week one, but I'm the why, Like

(04:54):
a Dan Campbell type comes to mind, Like, oh, he's
a very much a raw rock guy guy that when
he speaks it almost looks like his muscles are flexing.
When you get a guy like that get y'all fired up,
and you know, you've seen a lot of coaches highlighted
because you know Fox and CBS do tap into a
lot of those postgame locker room celebrations, and you see

(05:15):
it on Hard Knocks, and you see it on Quarterback
and Wide Receiver on Netflix. You get a sense of
what quarterbacks, what coaches really fire people up. And I
think the Mike McDaniel snarky, apathetic, funny, he's like, you
knows funny that that doesn't work when you're losing. I'm
telling you, Scott stale at overstated to welcome and expired.

(05:37):
He seems uninspired. Yeah, by no means do I want
to be the guy that flip flopped that fast after
Week one and now thinks this guy's the worst. Look
at what he's given you. That's based on that speech
and everything else that we saw week one. It doesn't
look good. I don't want to be the guy that's
just hating on this dude, but that's what we're working with,
and all we could do is make our observations. It's

(06:00):
not looking good for him. It's not looking good for
the team. That might be the worst head coach speech
I ever heard. Well, that's not even a joke. Just
ask yourself this. If they beat the Patriots convincing lean
week two and they have a pretty solid win in
Tua and Tyreek and that whole offense gets gets it going,
is it definitely over Like is this one of those like, oh,

(06:21):
it's inevitable, Like they're just not going to really get
it together. Well, like you said, that leads to an
oh and three possibly oh and four start for the Dolphins.
I say, that's not looking good for him and his job.
I know, division battles again, the reality setting in guys,
Division battles could go anyway. We saw, like you know,
teams like Cleveland play division teams tight and they're clearly

(06:43):
not as good. But Danny, let me ask you if
they go where's where's the McDaniels leash cut? Is it?
If they go oh and three after losing to Buffalo?
Does he even get four weeks in? Could he go
oh and three into the Jets game?

Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, it's around that fourth or fifth game.

Speaker 4 (06:58):
Same with the Lea Shawn Young quarterbacks getting in finally
for a veteran who's maybe stinking it up.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
Russell wil Russell Wilson, what's what's.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
The same thing four or five games?

Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yeah, you're gonna try to salvage somewhat or something of
the season. So your thoughts on that because it feels fake.
That's a real clip and it's pretty embarrassing. dB, what
are your thoughts on this?

Speaker 5 (07:23):
You know, it's interesting just schedule wises. We break down
a lot of times, like we are with the Niners
with injuries. You mentioned where does it go because the
Dolphins play Thursday night next week? If you were to
make a move, I would think it would probably be
after the week three game, like if they were zero
and three, because then at least head coach a week
and a half. Yeah, a little bit more time to

(07:43):
at least adjust. Otherwise their Bye doesn't come up until
November twenty third.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
Rich made his analogy about this feels like reality setting
in when a hot woman's negative qualities start to kick in.

Speaker 6 (07:59):
Right.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
Yeah, You're like, we were just so excited to date
her because she was so hot, and then you like
that reality, You're like, maybe she is a pain in
the ass, Maybe she's not that great. Maybe I was
just blinded because she's hot. Maybe we were a little
blinded because Mike McDaniel was so different and great, great
play call on you brought a good new energy. But

(08:19):
you know, we liked his commentary, we liked his answers,
we liked his swag about him. But I have a
different analogy. You ever feel like when you're on your
way out of anything, a job, an old apartment, whatever,
you stop caring as much. Like I remember waiting tables,
thinking I'm done with this, and I was like mad

(08:41):
at everybody. I didn't care about the job anymore. I'm like,
I'm going on the radio. I don't want to work
with you idiots anymore. This place sucks. Stopped Karen stopped
putting as much effort in how about your apartment you're leaving?
You know the lease is up. Or your house you're moving.
You stop cleaning that house that last month there, you
stop caring the same way you're on your way. It's
still something on a carpet you just leave, just again.

(09:03):
Or a relationship you know it's not going anywhere, you're
start neglecting it, right. I feel like McDaniel just based
on the press conference, I mean, and based on what
he said about Tua, he's too He could have said,
NFL coaches, it seems like he's not caring a man,
the leaders not caring, the team's not caring, and if
that continues, they lose this week, give it two more.

(09:26):
He's out. He's you know, NFL coaches are too respectable
and you work too hard to get there to not care.
But do you think there is a sense that Mike
McDaniel knows, deep down inside like I'm not gonna last
this season? It just does. It seems he's looking at
his team dB and he's like, I see my personality,
I see what I got, and yeah, we might win
this week, but I don't think this. I don't he

(09:46):
made deep down inside feel I'm not last.

Speaker 5 (09:49):
In the year, To his credit, he maxed out a
lot of things like, I think he maxed out Tua
for what Tua is as a quarterback, and we don't
know how long two is going to last. We've seen
the serious injuries that that he's so effered with his concussions. Honestly,
it's not like they got a young Tyreek Hill when
they brought him in, so they maximize him, but that
was not going to last. Ultimately it ends up being
the head coach falling, and there may be a point

(10:12):
to that. The only reason, and I don't have any
inside information why I think that wouldn't happen, why he
wouldn't quit, is because those things circle throughout the league,
where like on your next job or your next if
it was thought that he quit on his team or
wasn't putting forth the effort, then I think that that
is would prevent him from maybe getting another head coaching

(10:32):
job elsewhere. So I would hope that he isn't. But
if it's in the back of his mind knowing that
I know I can't get much more out of Tuah
and Tyreek Hill maybe on the decline, Yeah, he may
already know his fate.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
Yeah, after the game again, his whole Hume attitude after
a major ass whapon like you would have thought he
would have showed some passion or anger, did something to
fire the team up. The positive, he said, Remember the
positive is I don't see how it could be any worse.
And you gotta hear that clip. You gotta hear that clip.

(11:04):
I think one more time, sexy Ryan, just to hear
how ridiculous it sounds when asked about his quarterback. This
is him talking about Tua. If you missed it, you
got to hear it again because it sounds fake.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
He's the captain of the franchise quarterback and everybody kind
of fell victim to something similar. I also know that he's.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Very very much.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
Like a lot most quarterbacks, to be honest, where you're
putting a lot of work into something and your first
time doing it for a collective four quarters in months,
you're not at your best.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
What it makes no sense?

Speaker 2 (11:50):
I feel like it sounds like he was on painkillers.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
Translation is that he is that you know, did you
have a bad day? Translation to his like he's pretty
much saying it is their first go as this new
unit together as an offense. Give them a little time.
You're fluent and gibberish, Yes, Riches fluent and I understood
that are you fluent in Valley Boy? Because he had
seven ums one, two, three, four of us seven ums

(12:15):
and one like in there Rich Rich drops a lot
of likes.

Speaker 4 (12:18):
I still think this is AI. I've been cross referencing,
like to make sure this is not and it.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
Or something like, it's very odd. Again, this is from
the leader of the team. That's the head coach. Pedro
from Napoleon Dynamite had a better speech than him. Well,
I make your all, all your wildest dreams come through
or something. What do you want from a coach or
a manager in these some sense of urgency in package.
I just wanted that too.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
Well, I'll throw this at you. Like.

Speaker 5 (12:48):
We just came off of this Cowboys documentary. Did you
guys watch it?

Speaker 1 (12:51):
Yeah? I thought it was great.

Speaker 5 (12:53):
What did you think Jimmy Johnson's tenure was in Miami?
How they characterized it in that documentary. It was a
short blurb. Yeah, but we like watching how it was
characterized Compared to what the Cowboys. It seemed like it
was a failure, right, like it like not matching up
to the back to back Super Bowls. Jimmy Johnson made

(13:14):
the playoffs three times in four years in Miami since
Don Sula. Jimmy Johnson actually has the second longest tenure
of any coach with the Dolphins. Da've Wanstead was there
five years. That was the second longest tenured coach to
the Dolphins. So it made Mike McDaniel is going to
be the fall guy for it. But the Dolphins have

(13:37):
been pretty much mediocre at best, would you say, Dan
for the ever since Don Sula ended up leaving, And
it's just amazing to think of just how bad it's
been for Miami because they're never aid.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
I have friends that are in their forties that fell
in love with Dan Marino, Mark Duper, Mark Clayton. They
fell in love with that shool A team in the
eighties and that's why they're Dolphins. Fans are like Yo,
Rich the same way you were a kid that loved Montana.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
I love Marino.

Speaker 1 (14:07):
They stuck with the Dolphins and like Yo, it's not
been a fun ride, by the way, Can I correct
Dan Byer? I'm sorry, Dan, but Lee Majors was the
fall game Ryan Gosling as well. Yo.

Speaker 4 (14:19):
To DB's point, the last twenty seasons, the Dolphins record
is one forty seven and one seventy six.

Speaker 5 (14:26):
His winning percentage is five p forty nine, which Jimmy
Johnson had a winning percentage of five sixty three. Wanstead's
was five to seventy five. No other coach topped five
hundred in any of their tenure during that time.

Speaker 1 (14:40):
You're right, the Dolphins haven't really been a force or relevant. Really.
That's why I think I'm glad to point that out too,
because I never want to be the show that's calling
for this guy's job one week into the season, yes,
and one speech into it, you know, but it's more
than that. And as he overstated, his welcome has the
reality he said, and do they have to make a move?

Speaker 2 (15:02):
I am.

Speaker 5 (15:02):
I think I'm a Rich Davis guy here, and that
we both really like Mike McDaniel. I know you like
him for the forty nine ers tie. I like that
sort of deal. He again, he and the major's the
fall guy. Yeah, but I don't think that all of
it is his fault. No, if he could help himself
by maybe sounding coherent or shaping up a press conference

(15:23):
here or there, But I don't feel bad for him,
But I just I don't. It ultimately falls on the
head coach. But I just think that there's a lot
going on with the Dolphins and he probably did the
best that he could.

Speaker 1 (15:34):
And I think ultimately Mike McDaniel loses this job. There's
a line of people that want him as their offensive coordinator. Yes,
you will absolutely get a quick He may not get
a head coaching job like that, but the same way
like a Robert Sala fell right back in like people like,
we want you defensive coordinator. There are guys that are
head coaches that don't, you know, come up short that

(15:55):
you know for a fact, someone will say I want
him on my staff.

Speaker 5 (15:58):
He's the only coach since Dave one Stead to lead
them to multiple playoff berths. They have made the playoffs
twice during his TENSI.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
You know what, maybe Mike McDaniel's getting a good tough rep.
Thank you Dan Bayer for adding some clarity.

Speaker 4 (16:11):
But when he's speaking to the press, why not just
simplify things. I'd rather my coach say a lot of
this is on me and and the players obviously, but
it's on me too.

Speaker 2 (16:20):
We're gonna be better.

Speaker 1 (16:22):
They did take accountability, but he started it off with
that really weak assed state.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
Five blocks to go across the street.

Speaker 1 (16:31):
And he said it comes down to him as the
coach of the team. He did say that it was
his demeanor, it was the way he addressed it. Everything
about it was noticeably odd. That's the thing. And if
he had a bad day, he's so big. Everybody does
right about talk about not just football. Let let's let's
make it broader, NBA, major League Baseball. When a team

(16:51):
is floundering, squandering, you know, give me any other word,
when a team is just fall fell off the rails,
I'll up New Mets, Danny. You know a lot of
criticism of your Dodgers, Dave Roberts, even though you've won
World Series with the guy. If you're Carlos Mendoza of
the Mets, struggling and the Mets have lost five in
a row and they have this little two game lead

(17:13):
now over the Giants in reds for the Wildcard. A
team that was twenty plus games over five hundred. Have
been the worst team in baseball, the third worst team
in baseball since mid June. They've fallen apart. And it
starts with the leadership. But it's the bullpen. Really, does
Carlos Mendoza give some raw Ross speech. What do you
want to hear from your coach of manager? Because sometimes
I feel like.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
There's you you want passion.

Speaker 4 (17:33):
I think I think Dodger fans are hard on Dave Roberts,
partly not just because some of the moves he makes
with the bullpen et cetera, but partly because you don't
see him like hyping up the players. You don't see Now.
I know everybody's different. Everybody has a different form of leadership.
Some guys are more quiet with it. But when what
it feels like the fans are more passionate than the

(17:53):
manager or the coach, that's where you start seeing grumbling
from the fan base.

Speaker 1 (17:57):
Nailed it. I agree completely with any so your thoughts
on that. We're not trying to be hard on Mike McDaniel.
If anything, we were. We're fans of the guy, but
we have to call it as we see and what
happened and what people are buzzing about and the urgency
of him having to beat the Patriots here because the
next few weeks don't get any easier, so what's gonna happen?

(18:20):
And that speech about Toua was just pathetic, But again,
everybody has a bad day. Maybe it's just that what
are your thoughts? Eight seven to seven ninety nine on
Fox And you can always chime in at Covino and
rich and on our YouTube chat. We got to pull
that up. I'm reading our feedback Malser and Cincinnati, who's
a big Dolphins fan. He goes, oh, Dolphins. McDaniels sounds
like my teenage horribly explaining to me why he got

(18:42):
caught in class with his cell phone. Well, you know
the you know the yeah, just didn't It just sounded incoherent.
But again I said it in the beginning too. Sometimes,
like if you if your personality is based on sarcasm,
it doesn't work in a serious situation, right. It's like

(19:02):
if you're like, I am terrible in serious situations because
I'm always trying to be lighthearted, Like I feel really
uncomfortable and serious. It starts to feel awkward. Everything feels
awkward if you're like a lighthearted guy. Mike McDaniel is
based on snark and humor. When your team gets there,
ass whopped? His like can't get worst joke doesn't hit right,

(19:25):
that's not what you want. And his funny stumbling and mumbling,
which might be like charming when they're after that embarrassment
from the Colts. You want to see a little like
fist pounds. They're like, you know, this is like Danny
said before, honestly, it doesn't work. That's a good point
when you really watch it. That's why we're thrown off
by it. If they're one to zero, his bumbling and
rumblings might be charming when you got whooped, not so much.

(19:48):
I feel bad, man, I'm talking smack about someone's job
and career. But that is the buzz, that is the story,
and I understand where it's coming from. That's all. Mike wish,
Mike McDaniel the best. I hope the Dolphins sort of
turning around or a spot labeled on our YouTube video
right now is Mike McDaniel trying to get fired. You know,

(20:11):
that's what Danny G was saying in our pre show meeting,
because this sounds like it is that really what's going
on here? Like that speech was terrible. Cavino and Rich
Fox Sports Radio. Sometimes you get tongue tight as a host.
That happens.

Speaker 4 (20:27):
Yeah, But imagine if I was at like a radio
conference or something for talk radio and they asked me
to speak on the show I'm producing, And that was my.

Speaker 7 (20:37):
Yo.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
Yeah, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (20:38):
People would be like, this guy wants off that show.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
Danny G. I've watched Rich try to say the thick
of things. It took him about forty five seconds to
get that out. I was in the thick of think,
think of we've all pulled Mike McDaniel moments.

Speaker 4 (20:58):
Yeah, but Rich Rich will in all of us will
say words wrong or get tongue twisted while we have
animation and some personality to what's going on this guy,
like you said Covino earlier, it's his demeanor that has
a lot of people asking questions right now.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
Yeah, that's it. So the thought is, and if you
go to social media, is he trying to get fired?
Dany G was buying into that. I think it's the
feeling of the inevitable. Like I said, the weird analogy,
and I know this from experience, and I think everybody
could sort of relate. Let's say you keep your place clean,
in pristine. If you know you're moving out in a month,

(21:35):
that means you probably didn't clean your house in like
a month. You didn't change your sheets. It's a mess.
There's just boxes and mess. He's a head coach. He
wants to fix it, but does he think it's inevitable.
Maybe it feels like it's already happening. That's how he's acting.
Sembau hit us up on the YouTube in show and
he said, McDaniel feels like the classic example I references

(21:55):
before of an oc who's great but maybe can't run
the whole team. Maybe feels really frustrated. I mean, Nigatt
got to hold the GM responsible. People are saying, ask
kick thirty three to eight by the Calts. Anyway, we're
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(22:17):
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(22:38):
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to eleven, Never Forget, and what sports moments stood out
and helped us, I guess deal with the terrible situation

(22:58):
eight seven seven ninety nine of Fox. Let's say how
to Megan Montana?

Speaker 8 (23:02):
Hey, Meg, Hey, guys, you're breaking my heart.

Speaker 1 (23:05):
I'm sorry to talk about your Dolphins like this, but
it just as a lot of people are hitting us
up saying since Marino, they're like the definition of mid.

Speaker 8 (23:14):
Ah mid Yeah if not weak, it's not weak.

Speaker 1 (23:19):
Yeah, definitely not made.

Speaker 8 (23:20):
It's bad. It's been bad, but I'm one of those
folks who clung on hard after the Marino years and
it's been a rough road. And as you guys pointed out,
despite Mike McDaniel's gouber, twelve year old skater boy looking nattitude,
he is the longest tenure of head coach and has
had the most success in Miami since Jimmy Johnson, which

(23:43):
thought in of itself as pathetic, But my Alanta, like
everyone's being so harsh and thrown so much shade this week,
and I just don't think it's fair after one game
and granned all last season was a debacle as well.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
There's not to be said about what you're saying. Just
being on the airwaves here Fox Sports Radio Nation. I
feel like we're being a little rude, Like absolutely a
little rude. I don't want trying to be, but look
what we're dealing with here. It's kind of just calling
it as you see it, not trying to be rude.
It just is right now. So take what we're saying

(24:19):
with a grain of salt, Meg and maybe they turned
it around this week, but as of now, it looks
like he's uninterested. There's no sense of urgency. This is
the NFL.

Speaker 5 (24:29):
I look at the Dolphins in a unique way, and
that's why I wanted to bring up the big picture
of the lack of success. Think about the Patriots dominating
that division for two decades. However, Tom Brady leaves, Belichick leaves,
who's taken over the Buffalo Bills. Even during the Patriots run,
the Jets had their moments with Rex Ryan. A couple

(24:49):
of seasons. Weren't a lot, but they were in the
thick of it.

Speaker 1 (24:52):
Being in the playoffs.

Speaker 5 (24:53):
Yes, it took took him pretty far. At least they
broke through. The Dolphins really didn't. There was like one
division title at one point and then it's just a
bunch of wild card boards.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
You know, I'll give you the baseball analogy if you're
a fan of American League East baseball, which I know
Cavino is. There was a good amount of time where dude,
it was Yankees or Red Sox, and my apologies to Baltimore,
Toronto and Tampa because you just didn't really have a shot.
But you're right, there was a year or so where
Tampa made it to the World Series. Yes, there was

(25:23):
a year where Toronto and Joey Bats went on a run.
And the Orioles even had maybe one or two years
where they were a wild card. The Dolphins were had
the odds stacked against him playing in that division. But
you're right, every other team found the way to at
least have a glimmer of.

Speaker 5 (25:38):
A yes, at least post Patriots or even a shot
during it, and they really haven't really haven't done that.

Speaker 9 (25:43):
You know.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
That's great analysis, TB. And it made me feel better
about our rude comments. I'm serious. It just backed up
the feeling and sentiment of everybody. You think about it,
even if a division is dominated in any sport there
you pick a team and even if they didn't win
it all, there was a year or so where they
jump through National League East Nationals won a World Series

(26:04):
every few years. The Marlins pops up, the Braves won
a World Series. The Phillies did. The Mets have a
couple of moments of glimmers here and there. So even
even fifteen Yeah, so it's like even divisions with bad teams,
they find a way to be relevant here or there.
The Dolphins have never found the time to be relevant, correct,
And it's not looking good. So and it's the way

(26:27):
with Tyreek. I know he's not the Tyrek abol but
he's still effective. Tyreek and Waddle and h Chan and
I don't know, it's they had it and I just
don't know why it's so flat. Have you seen a
good look of Tyreek Hill's neck, Like, have you ever
really looked at it? Muscular?

Speaker 9 (26:44):
What?

Speaker 1 (26:46):
No, I'm serious, Well, his neck is is like Mike
Tyson's neck on a little pete, like a little pea
hit on top. He is so so strong. I just
saw a picture of him, like, yeah, how go ahead.
I never noticed he's got a pit bull neck. I
don't know, because you know Tyreek Hill, you've seen him
a million times. I just never noticed that about him.
And this past weekend I was looking at him. I'm like,

(27:08):
my goodness, like that's he's he's saying, he's like Beatles
troops from the Stern Shoe. What was that guy? I
remember that that that dude that Shady did with a big,
strong neck. He was all over the internet. He said
he's like ram Man from he Man. I'm telling you,
I'm looking up and I'm just saying I know exactly
who you're talking about. Remember it was the long skinny

(27:28):
neck kid, and he was always with that wide neck guy,
and they went viral for He's like wide neck. That's
that's actually a good picture. Spot Like, that's what I'm saying.
I think something happened where he was doing some real
serious neck workouts in the off season, because it's next
level wide and again you can see the pictures. You
can see us live on Fox Sports Radio, the YouTube

(27:48):
channels Covino and Rich FSR Covino and Rich Oh, I
get you know, he's down in Miami, turning his head
left to right a lot. So good all that ass
looking at all that ass man, I'm telling you he's
like wide neck.

Speaker 4 (28:00):
That neck guy, the internet personality you're talking about. He's
from Pensacola, Florida. Was that what that they call? People
just call him guy guy.

Speaker 1 (28:08):
I'm telling you it's all the it's the year long
bikinis in Florida where you know guys off and again.
Maybe maybe it was like enhanced or whatever with Ai,
but I'm like, what is that? I never noticed that. Again,
he's the NFL, so I guess I shouldn't be that surprised.
It's like when Eli Manning had that really bulbous helmet
and there were some photoshops that made it even bigger.

(28:30):
Like you're like, wait a minute, they make it even bigger. Maybe,
And it's time for a tire rack play of the day.
Don't look now, but Mookie Betts is heating up.

Speaker 10 (28:45):
Here's the pitch and Mookie swings hits a drive dape
left center and is back. It is a grand swam
from Mookie Bets. Mooky moment Hare, Mooky Pets. I'm a
three to zero pitch hits it over the three seventy
five marker in a lit up field pavilion and the

(29:07):
Dodgers open it up. It is eight to nothing.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
You're proud of yourself. You beat the Rockies, Danny g
You know what, can you beat the Giants? Three games
this weekend for the Nets if.

Speaker 2 (29:17):
The offense stays hot like this, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
Sweep the Giants. Thank you Dodgers. Leave my team's name
out your mouth. Oh that's right, you're a Giants guy.
That's a sexy Ryan Giants guy. But you know what,
but Todgers fan, do you what do you care? Then?
I'm rooting for you. This weekend Bridge had me convinced
you're a Giants fan. Sexy Ryans. Yeah, I was like
keeping back to the back of the nights where Bets
was on fire courtesy of a five to seventy Dodgers

(29:42):
Ondio network. We will talk about nine to eleven and
what got us back to normal a few events in sports,
baseball in fact, but right now we do it every Thursday.
We throw it back. Look at the clock, let's go,
there's a certain.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
What we gonna do by his go back.

Speaker 1 (30:04):
Back into time.

Speaker 11 (30:06):
Throwing it back for a Thursday old school went fifty
hits at fifty after CNR give you the time capsule
topic and we reminisce together.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
Yeah, so today's an anniversary, Sexy Ryan. I hope you're
paying attention because this is your world, Bro. This day
nineteen seventy seven, I was a one year old little
pimp and the making bro the godfather of video games,

(30:37):
became a thing. Atari twenty six hundred debuted in America.
That was my first gaming console. Legendary. I remember when
I got it, when Santa wrote it. In fact, my
dad goes, what's that. I was like, it's a joystick. Joystick.
I know what that means. Joystick. I know what that means,
Daddy with the joy stick. I'm like, yeah, man had

(31:01):
exploded in the eighties with Space Invaders. I still remember
the day I had like a Glenn Gouglia moment, went
to my parents' friend's house and like the rich eighties guy,
I had a tar and he was playing pac Man
Bink bank mank Bank Bank bank Making. But the Atari
version it was different, less advanced than the Arcade version,
but it was mind blasting for the time.

Speaker 4 (31:22):
It's funny, Cavino, you say a rich guy because It
started off slow because it was the equivalent to eleven
hundred dollars for parents to buy. In nineteen seventy seven, well,
thank god Santa bought my Yeah. In nineteen eighty they
started having sales on the console and Space Invaders blew
it up.

Speaker 1 (31:40):
I remember the day that you hooked it up to
the back of the TV. That weird little like UHF
thing that it connected to. I don't know what it was. Yeah,
that a little weird thing. And my first game I
ever played on my first ever console, Tari twenty six hundred,
was Commando Raid, and I remember I thought the graphics

(32:00):
were way cool. That's how it looked. There's Commando Rad
Atari twenty six hundred. You just shooting down the planes,
the little dudes on the parachutes and everything. So based
on that, you have to start thinking about how far
it's come, how far we've come, so I mean a
million dollars. My first gaming console was Nintendo NES. I
remember getting that in the mid eighties, and I remember

(32:21):
remember Mario and Duck Hunt came on the same but
it all started with the Ataris. I never ever had
a Tari or whatever, but that changed our life. So
we want to dive into old school hobbies because this
week we found out that Iowa Sam used to be
a fencer when he was a kid. Who knew. Let's
talk about your old school hobbies because nowadays that's one
of the biggest hobbies in our country, in the world
gaming gaming. Yeah, game, So we'll talk hobbies. We'll talk

(32:45):
some sports members from nine to eleven and more. Right
here can be known Wretch and Rich. You brought up
the old school nes much like you. I was classically
trained on that as well. I really feel like that's
what really changed everything, but really started everything to me.
Was not Pong or anything like that. None of the
handheld games. It was Atari twenty six hundred. I had it.

(33:06):
I loved it. We're talking pac Man and Pitfall. I
feel like unless you're a true lifetime gamer, you really
connect with one console, like your first was Atari. My
siblings would say Sega Genesis. I would say I would say, yes,
nintend Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis. But what hobbies were you

(33:31):
into as a kid, Because this was a hobby, it
became a hobby, right, This is what your parents complained about,
the same way you complained about your kids being on
their tablet was what your parents were saying about you
in front of the TV playing video games. But that
became a multi billion dollar industry where people actually make money,
So that hobby became a job for a lot of people.

(33:53):
And Big sixy Ryan is a gamer that makes money.
Can you please just give us a little insight on that?
Then you're on Twitch?

Speaker 2 (34:01):
Right?

Speaker 1 (34:01):
Yeah? I stream on twitch.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
Ryan McBain on Twitch, drop me a follow.

Speaker 1 (34:04):
But yeah, Ryan McBain, I see you all the time
playing your games, and you make money doing that, a
little bit of money because you love to see me
get scared.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
So I play a lot of horror games.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
Is that really the pull? Though? First off, people like
to watch this like we like to watch I don't
get it at all. Right, I can't understand watch to
watch though, not you in general? My kids watch people
play Minecraft, and I'm like, how about you play Minecraft?
You know my kids will watch this? Uh the I
forget they're even the Milo and something. They watch these

(34:36):
kids or cartoon people play Minecraft. I'll never understand it.
What's up? Dann Bayer?

Speaker 5 (34:42):
Imagine loading up Techmo super Bowl and being like I
gotta go to work like.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
That, that's amazing. Yeah, they have to do that.

Speaker 5 (34:50):
I gotta play weeks six, seven, and eight tonight on
my season.

Speaker 2 (34:54):
That would be the worst, wouldn't it?

Speaker 1 (34:56):
So old school hobbies. If you want to chime in
on the game stuff and the impact ahead on you,
but you know what it means, go right ahead. I'll
play Dan Byron's Techmo super Bowl, not not super tech Mobile,
which is a big mistake people make. It's correct, It's
Techmo super Bowl, which is better than the O G
tech Mobile. People don't like talk about that enough. Four
more plays, eight plays instead of four and all the

(35:18):
teams and all the teams. Can you imagine though watching
other people play, I can't. It's Ryan God bless you
imagine investing now and rowblocks now on the market. You
gotta be a little entertaining to me personally. I get
hammered and I just like, uh talk so people love that.

(35:39):
I want to see Ryan get scared, you know what.
That's funny. I didn't know that was like your your
hook though, Like he just plays scary because I see
his clips all the time. Again, Ryan McBain on Twitch.
He's making money on this. You could invest money in
it now. It's a big deal. I saw someone say, man,
our kid's got a lot of nerve asking us for
row Bucks on their roll blocks Rollbucks. I don't even

(36:01):
have earth Bucks, and you want Roadbucks. Get out of
my face. But these hobbies have turned into multi billion
dollar industries and ways for you to make money. What
were some crazy hobbies you got into as a kid
aside from the obvious baseball card collection and you're scratching
sniff stickers. Besides all that, you just name my one
and only hobby. I was the only one baseball card collector.

(36:23):
You didn't do like karate or anything else like extracurricular.
That was like a hobby. You running cobra kai. There
was no miagi do in my hometown. But no, I
hung out at the baseball card shop and.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
That was like what was the name of it?

Speaker 1 (36:38):
It was called rare coins only because it was just
an old like some old dude smoking a coin. There
was an old guy named Val. I remember this guy
got rest in peace? Like, no way he's still alive.
This guy maybe one thirty five, Yeah, maybe he's one
hundred and ten. He's the old this guy ever, But
I remember this guy Val owned rare coin in Franklin Square,

(37:01):
Long Island, and he realized that I'm not really making
much money on rare coins. But it was the baseball
card explosion of the late eighties early nineties, so he's like,
I guess I'm just gonna do all baseball cards. But
he still called it rare coins. And his wife would
come by every He was like a hobby shop, really
a hobby shop, but it was like one little thing
of coins and the rest was baseball cards. And we
even told him, like Valle, you need to get video games.

(37:23):
He got a street Fighter NBA Jam and his place
became the hang But every day without fail, you went
there after school or on the weekend, you'd be playing,
you know, NBA Jam, getting some upper deck nineteen nineties. No,
you wanted that Consaco rated rookie, that Mark McGuire USA card,
those Griffy rookies. I wanted some nice car like stadium
club cards. Yeah, they came out. The upper decks came out.

(37:45):
That was a closer than ninety ninety one though right
now there was eighty nine eight. Yeah, late ladies. So
VAL's wife would come in every day and all she
would do is yell at him, curse him out, put
him down, and then leave. And then he would look
at us kids and go, let me tell you kids.
I think all moms and ladies of the eighties did that.

(38:05):
My mom did that to my dad. Let me tell
you kids. We were like, yes, hey, why you busting
my chops? Attends you? You'd say, uh, the lesson kids,
life sucks. Then you die. Oh man. I was like,
what a great lesson. Thanks and you tell all the
kids that life sucks. You have a Greg Jeffries scorecard?
Do you have a future star? Dave Maginen? Did you

(38:26):
have friends? Like some hobbies? Are all hobbies cool or
were some cooler than others? Because there was some kids
who were in the trains, I'm like, all right, nerd.

Speaker 4 (38:34):
And then there was the kids kids who collected marbles, Remember, yeah,
really did mar mar Marbles are great?

Speaker 1 (38:41):
I do remember that. I think we all had them though,
right like everybody has.

Speaker 2 (38:45):
My older brother had a huge bag of them.

Speaker 4 (38:46):
He'd bring them to school and there'd be kids on
the elementary school playground. Some are trying to steal each
other's marbles in their marble bathroom.

Speaker 1 (38:54):
Because some are really cool.

Speaker 2 (38:55):
Days there were steelers are stealing the boulders.

Speaker 1 (38:58):
Do you have any friends that were early on the
whole like try to find rare action figures and like
resell them at those type of shops like baseball shops.
But they were ahead of the game. I remember the
one that was popular was is it Marvel or x men? Iceman?
Whatever Iceman was was? That was the one that was yeah, chuckle,
you know what, there were certain ones that were hard

(39:19):
to get. I always envied at the time, because again
we're talking about when we were kids, eighties, whatever that
generation is for you through back Thursday, old school and
fifty hits hobbies, because today is when Atari came out,
and look that hobby became probably the biggest thing in
our world. One of the biggest things in our world.

(39:40):
Remote control cars was was a big deal back in
the eighties. Oh, let's take your figure. You know, if
you got one at radio shack, you were lucky. But
people that took it serious, you'd see theirs.

Speaker 2 (39:53):
You're like, oh my god, jealous.

Speaker 1 (39:55):
Sorry, I didn't mean to take you on your jack.
What's up, buddy, Bud?

Speaker 9 (39:59):
Hey, what's going on? Guys?

Speaker 1 (40:01):
What's up? Man? Tell us about it. I remember my
buddy had like one called the Frog.

Speaker 9 (40:05):
And yeah, those are the old Tamaya I had one
it was a rough rider, and then the old Volkswagen
one and that kind of was the springboard for me
to get into rcy airplanes.

Speaker 7 (40:17):
And I still do that.

Speaker 1 (40:19):
Yeah, dude, they were you know, when you got something
next level, entry level like the Frog, you you knew
that you weren't playing on that game you had like
a toy. They had a real remote control car. Do
you that's awesome man, that you still do that for fun?
You know, you want to set your kids up with
fun hobbies like that too that they could take into

(40:39):
their adulthood. Do you guys remember the worst remote control
car of all time? The Animal? Do you remember they
had claws, came out of clause, came out of the wheels,
and it was supposed to be able to climb over
all terrain. Yeah, I told everybody remembers that nothing could
stop well, anything could everything stuff the Animal everything you couldn't.

(41:00):
It made it seem like it could go through a
jungle or forest. Meanwhile, it couldn't get over a little
you know, some weeds on your front lawn. The Animals
was at a great one.

Speaker 4 (41:10):
Rich do you think a lot of those little kids
that love the RC stuff are now flying drones.

Speaker 1 (41:15):
Yes, that's basically what I was thinking when he said that,
you know he's flying these planes. I bet you it's
the same kids that were doing that are are doing
the drone stuff. But I don't I feel like I
resisted a lot of these things because you're you guys
are having these conversations, and I had friends that would
do this stuff and I'd be like, yeah later, you know,
I know, because you were probably running around playing with
the mall or my name. My childhood was more street

(41:37):
sports and Nintendo saying because I had a buddy that
was way into you guys. Ever hear of like slot cars,
but you race like you? You like like you race
these cars. You could go to places and race like
I guess you would say they're little wooden type of
cars that maybe six inches to a foot long, and
you'd bring them to places and race them. I'm like, yeah, no, thanks.
Old school hobbies and what else ties into this in

(41:59):
a funny way. I don't know if you missed it,
but yesterday we found out that Iowa Sam you know,
we're talking about the trifencing dot org, right USA fencing,
and Iowa Sam started telling us about how he used
to fence when he was a kid.

Speaker 2 (42:12):
We're like, what, yeah, against adults and he was a child.

Speaker 1 (42:16):
He said, he was a little kid with the whole
uniform on fencing other people.

Speaker 7 (42:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (42:22):
We made a joke that he was like Kramer with
the little kids. He goes, no, I was the little
kid fencing with adults. But we never knew that, so
we figured out was a nice tie in with the
Atari anniversary. What were some other hobbies I know for
you of the previous generations, didn't you go through a
phase that you would roller blade around town with a
cutoff shirt?

Speaker 2 (42:41):
I tried No.

Speaker 1 (42:42):
The answer to that is no, pull me home. Yeah,
but people did roller but I wasn't roller blades and
I bugg him on like once and busted my ass
and never tried him again.

Speaker 2 (42:53):
A huge hobby was BMX biking skateboarding. Obviously, I don't
know if I.

Speaker 1 (42:57):
Ever considered that a hobby though. I was just like
how I got around, Yeah, way of life. Can you
guys remember because I can remember a couple of names.
You remember the GT performer, the Mongoose, the Mangoo, Diamondback,
the diamond Back.

Speaker 2 (43:08):
We all wanted a diamond back.

Speaker 1 (43:09):
You had a Houfee, you were kind of weak, but
you knew everybody had one at one point. I have
to tell you, guys the quick story. I may have
told it before on Fox Sports Radio, but if you're
going to talk about all those great bikes back in
the day, the mongoose, to remember the Dino, right, wasn't
the Dino one of them?

Speaker 9 (43:24):
You know?

Speaker 2 (43:24):
It was big.

Speaker 1 (43:24):
I think it was called the Kuwahara bike. I got
a double check it, but it was the one that
Elliott rode in et and because of that became a
big deal for a minute. But when I'm talking about
g T and the Mongoose and all those, I wanted
one of those so bad. The GT performer the GT
and they really did ride smooth, that had a Columbia,

(43:46):
had a rally racer and a Columbia. And I liked
my bike. But when you felt a GT, it did
feel next level, and you wanted one so bad, and
your parents made you feel like it was so expensive
and they were like one hundred and thirty five bucks. Yeah,
my buddy Paul loved to point out my expensive then.
But they weren't that expense. My childhood friend loves to
point out how like the rich kid in town had

(44:09):
the GT Performer or the Mongoo special addition, And the
reality was that bike is the price of like a dinner. Now,
like like you got with your wife for a nice
dinner and that's the price of what it costs. Meanwhile,
your parents made it seem like but if you had
a decent bike, it was still costing a hundred bucks.
Do you remember that, Remember that weird neighborhood feeling when
someone got their bike stolen.

Speaker 2 (44:29):
I did.

Speaker 1 (44:29):
It was like an investigation, like John got his bike stolen.
It was a horrible feeling. It happened to me. Yeah,
it's like your your life line. Everyone in the neighborhood
made a big beat, but it was so weird. I
had a friend who really loved his bike and it
got stolen, and he went to major extent, you know,
major leaps and bounds are trying to find this bike.
Do you know, p W Hehrman. Oh yeah, I remember

(44:51):
it was in the base of the Alamo or something right. Oh,
by the way, Redline was another major brand when we
were kids, Redline BMX bikes. Oh, but again, some people
guys like you and I rich. Yeah, you had your
friend on the back of the pegs. Maybe you rode
around the neighborhood. You built some ramps here and there.
I never was doing tricks and made it into a hobby.

(45:13):
I just rode my bike, but it was a hobby
for a lot of kids. The biggest trick I might
be able to do was go off a curb and
turn my handleballs around one time, skid around, something like that.
But my story real quick was I wanted one of
these Dandy g's so bad for Christmas, Mom, Dad, I
need a new bike. I'm thinking GT. Performer, Mongoose, Dino,

(45:34):
any of those premiere I'd say nineteen ninety ish bikes.
My parents got me like a ten speed Lance Armstrong.
It's weak, but not even even a mountain bike. Not
It was like you were either one or two stages.
You either had a cool little dirt bike or you
you know, graduated to a cool mountain bike. My parents
got me a tense speed and I remember thinking like

(45:57):
you just made me so uncool. But there was a
time I remember riding on the bike came with a
lifetime guarantee, no no ass and a wedgie for a
lifetime guarantee, one of those little specialized hats too, yeah,
as well wear bike pants and advisor. My buddy Barnando,
you know, wanted a mountain bike because after the BMX,

(46:18):
you wanted the mountain bike.

Speaker 3 (46:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (46:19):
Yeah, and his parents put him like a huffy with
a newspaper rack on the back, and man he could not.
He lost all cool points riding that bad boy. But yeah,
BMX biking was a hobby, just not for me. Could
I admit something embarrassing? That is a goal of mine
in the next six months. Yeah, my kids don't ride bikes.

(46:40):
That's crazy because we we live on a hill, right,
and then it just never with all their activities in
sports and dance and baseball and this we my kids
are I mean they're only five and eight, but still
like they're not dead. They're at the age now. Yeah,
but in my mind, I'm like, gosh, I should have
already taught them how to ride a bike. But my
kids on know how to ride a bike. It's just
you know, our neck of the woods. It's a thing.

Speaker 2 (47:00):
Did they do big wheels and tricycles?

Speaker 1 (47:03):
I guess like little you know the way, why I
think you charged. Don't sleep on the fact that that
ET did have a big part on us wanting to
ride BMX bikes. We saw those kids, see Thomas Howell
and what's his face, Henry Thomas and all those ET
kids riding around the neighborhood, flying across the moon. That
was sort of every kid's fantasy to just drive around

(47:26):
right around the town the way they were in that movie.

Speaker 2 (47:28):
There was also that movie I think it was called
Rad Yeah, Rad Yeah.

Speaker 1 (47:32):
So it really took that and skateboarding next level. That
was your fantasy. My fantasies were a bit different than yours.
You didn't want to just ride around those hills like that.
That old school hobbies based on the video games. Now
we turn it over to you and then we reminisce
about nine to eleven old school hobbies. Let's go rapid fire.
We'll start with Reese and Kentucky. Hey, Rees, what's up guy?

Speaker 6 (47:54):
I loved all this. I had a hutch by the way,
but not getting into that. But I have three brothers
or two brothers, three of us, and uh, we're all
uber competitive. I'm fifty now, I'm the middle. So when
the Nintendo came out, we couldn't just have one, so
they get us all one in the game. It was
Mike Tyson's punch out. I had to go downstairs in

(48:18):
the basement. They gave us a twelve inch TV. We
had to plug it in do all that, so we
had to watch each other to.

Speaker 7 (48:25):
Go through this.

Speaker 6 (48:26):
King Hippo was the hardest.

Speaker 1 (48:30):
One until you figured out. Until you figure it out,
it was easy.

Speaker 6 (48:33):
It was the easiest after.

Speaker 1 (48:34):
But remember there was that you were calling your friends
and fig you had to figure it out and until
you figured out how. You have a Nintendo hotline. That
is true. If you were stumped, you can call them up,
no doubt, Reese, that's a go can'. By the way,
Mike tith in here remember the code to fight Mike
Tithing with double O seven three seven three five nine
six three when we actually had never beat Mike Tything.

(48:57):
One of the times we've had Tyson actually on the show.
He's so clueless on that game. He's like, who's the guy?
But he's he called the blast Joe.

Speaker 2 (49:04):
He did because yeah, because he didn't play it.

Speaker 1 (49:06):
Yea, he never played it. I never played it. Andy
and mississipp what's up? Andy?

Speaker 12 (49:11):
Hey, guy's got a couple real quick.

Speaker 7 (49:13):
I had an vision.

Speaker 1 (49:16):
In television call Eco Vision.

Speaker 12 (49:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (49:18):
My uncle was doing well in the eighties. He had
twitch okay.

Speaker 12 (49:23):
To follow ryme nice, and I was jealous of a
kid in my neighborhood had an Evil kniebl bike and
had a handlebar that you canv.

Speaker 1 (49:36):
That's pretty cool. You want to hear something crazy history boy?

Speaker 9 (49:40):
Here?

Speaker 1 (49:41):
Do you know how Evil Knievel got his name? Evil Canievl? No,
his last name is Canievl. Right, but he was in
prison with a guy named Awful Knofflalo Awful on the
History Channel. So he's like, yeah, I'll just be evil
and he became. He became because because yeah, look it up.

(50:03):
I don't believe it all right, right, made it up?
I dreamed it? Yeah, thank you in Vegas. What's up, Hobby? Oh,
let's go to Derek and Derek what's up?

Speaker 9 (50:11):
Man?

Speaker 7 (50:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (50:12):
So I'm gonna start with video games for sure.

Speaker 7 (50:15):
The N sixty four is the first one I owned, and.

Speaker 9 (50:19):
Hot Wheels was a great game.

Speaker 7 (50:21):
I don't know if y'all played that. Hot Wheels on
the N sixty four was amazing.

Speaker 1 (50:26):
No, but I collected Hot Wheels and Matchbox can anyone
remember collecting matchbox cars in like that blue foamy case. Yeah,
you had to handle like old suit k yellow handle. Yeah,
the yellow handle, got it.

Speaker 4 (50:36):
Yes, car wash, that's something CoA is into right now.
And he's got so many hot wheels.

Speaker 1 (50:41):
You know that's a hobby. So I still got mine.
You know what I'm gonna cal You know, I'm gonna
steal something from him because he brought this up maybe
like a month ago on our Patreon and I forgot
it existed, and he unlocked him memory. So I'm gonna
unlock him memory for all of you right now. Do
you remember if you were baller enough and your parents
were cool enough to get this, Do you remember that
your matchbox cars they had a little car wash you

(51:02):
could buy for your matchbox cars. It was like it
was like a little setup with you.

Speaker 2 (51:06):
You remember seeing the TV commercial you could.

Speaker 1 (51:09):
You can have a car wash for your matchbox cars.
Look it up and I guarantee you'll unlock a memory, like,
oh my god, I remember that those were great. I
think those are hobby because you would collect them. Yeah,
so if you were collecting them, I think that's that's
definitely considered a hobby. What's up day?

Speaker 5 (51:25):
I had an older sister, so I was forced to
play Barbie. But they gave me like a ken doll. Okay,
but it was Donnie Osmond. Yes, yes, but my my
favorite part about it was blowing up the furniture.

Speaker 2 (51:39):
I don't know it was.

Speaker 5 (51:40):
That's that's she had a whole big So you mentioned
the car wash thing, and I'm like, I had to
endure playing Barbie because I had an older sister.

Speaker 1 (51:48):
Is that why you stayed at the Harris in Vegas
recently to see Donnie? I've done. That's why when you
go to his house he calls it damn Buyer's dream house.

Speaker 2 (51:56):
You have to see Barbie, but love Donnie Osma.

Speaker 1 (52:00):
Doesn't you want to go to Illinois? I had a baker. Oh,
we'll go to Hobvier.

Speaker 2 (52:04):
Now, now you're trying to skip, Pavier.

Speaker 1 (52:06):
What's up Hovier?

Speaker 7 (52:07):
What's up? Guys?

Speaker 1 (52:10):
Thank you man? Yeah?

Speaker 9 (52:13):
Do you guys remember pods and slammers?

Speaker 1 (52:16):
Absolutely? I remember, not understanding them. They're a little after
our like after my time. That's more early nineties, right.
My siblings weren't the po I was chasing, uh, you know,
women and playing baseball. I guess at that time, But
I totally remember how big that was for so many people.
Like you said, slammers. I still don't understand how that
game was played, but I remember how people collected them

(52:38):
in a major way.

Speaker 9 (52:39):
You know.

Speaker 4 (52:40):
Oh, I was going to say that that unlocked a memory.
My older brother got in trouble when my mom found
his collection of garbage pail kids a huge Yeah that
was for him.

Speaker 2 (52:49):
That was a hobby.

Speaker 1 (52:49):
You remember, you remember yours? I was mine? Was itchy Richie?
What was the Steve one? Uh, sexy Steve? I think
I don't think it was. I think I don't think
it was a Studeley Steve. I don't think that was it, Steve.
I don't think that sports sporty Steve spot Steve. Yeah,
I want to take one last dollar? Was sports talk Steve?

(53:10):
I want to say, how to Baker?

Speaker 7 (53:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (53:12):
Is wrapping in Illinois? What's that Baker?

Speaker 7 (53:14):
Hello?

Speaker 1 (53:15):
Hey, Hey, you're on Baker?

Speaker 7 (53:19):
Sorry, I I know I have an income poll h
So I just wanted to and what video games is
My my brothers they had store deals and three wheelers
and they were nine and twelve years older than me,

(53:40):
and they had Natari and by the time I was grown,
the atari was broken and the legos were smashed.

Speaker 1 (53:53):
Let's let's hear from Mike McDaniel. Everybody thank you Mike,
because well done.

Speaker 2 (54:04):
How about three he said?

Speaker 4 (54:05):
He mentioned three wheelers, though there were some kids in
the neighborhood that had the little motorcycles.

Speaker 1 (54:10):
Now Rich had a pogo stick. I gotta right, That's
how I got a run to go around. Yeah, they
call them. I heard one street at a time people
would be like, he, like, where's Rich And all of
a sudden you hear blee. You know, if we want
to take it back. Though pogo ball was a thing
you didn't love, I was pretty good. He was your
sister skipping. No, no, I was a big, big pogo ball.

Speaker 2 (54:30):
Did either of you ever have a dirt bike? Because
I know a lot of us bug dark.

Speaker 1 (54:34):
See it's funny because you're talking like a motorized motocross
dirt bike. Growing up in the suburbs of New Jersey,
we called the BMX like a dirt bike. That's just
what we call them. But no, an actual dirt bike.
I did not, no, no, but I wish I did.
I wish I did.

Speaker 7 (54:50):
Well.

Speaker 1 (54:50):
Hey, listen, so old school hobbies. Props to the Calco
visions and the in televisions and all the old school consoles.
Atari came out twenty six hundred came out this day,
nineteen seventy seven. It exploded in the eighties and now
it's the hobby is now someone's job. It's the biggest
is that credit tree going, And props to the come
up because we all witnessed it. So wait, Ron, you

(55:11):
have a Twitch and and only fans whoa snow that
Ryan McGain if you want to follow him on twitch.
It is funny to see. So there you have it.
Thank you guys for chiming in the rest of your
answers at Covino and Rich today it's a tough day,

(55:33):
and I do want to thank you guys for having
fun with us as we do our show. If you
still want to chime in on the old school hobbies,
talk about the video games that impacted you, hit us
up at Covino and Rich at Fox Sports Radio. But
on this day, all those years ago, two thousand and one,
Rich and I were on the East coast. Yeah, our stories.

(55:55):
We've told it every year since because you never want
to forget On our Patreon at Serious excent, but here
on Fox Sports Tredo. I'll make it simple. I was
working at k Rock, New York, home of Howard Stern
and woke up that morning and I'm hearing Howard talking
about what's going on. You're like, what, like, do I

(56:16):
even go in at what's going on? And got on
the bus from Jersey heading into New York and right
at the tunnel, true story, right at the tunnel right
there about that. Because we didn't I didn't know what
was going on. We didn't know it was a terrorist
act at the time, they said, turn around, we're not
letting you in. Turned around, continued listening to the Stern broadcast.

(56:39):
Him and my buddy, old buddy crazy Cabby were talking
about this guy Osama bin Laden, who I really had
never heard of at the time. Young dude. Yeah, I
was a young dude. Didn't care about that stuff. An innocence,
if you will, because life changed. Yeah, got back to
my hometown, put on the TV, continued watching this this
horror ran up the hill in my home out of Union,

(57:00):
New Jersey. Was able to see the twin towers up
and smoke my buddy Barry. Then tragedy happened. I never
made it into the city, but we had to live
with the aftermath because that's where we worked. That was
our backyard, and everybody knew somebody that had passed away
or that was affected. And I'll just say this, I'll
give a shout out to Thomas J. Fisher. He was

(57:21):
my neighbor right across the street. Till this day. My
parents live on the street named after him because he
passed away that day, Our neighbors, our colleagues, their family members,
high school kids. Shout out to my buddy, Ali Shahid
Khaleg Shahed. I saw him the night before we played pool.
Never saw him again. Everybody knew somebody. It was a horrific,

(57:44):
horrific day. But we did get back to normal. And
we'll tell you about that in a few minutes.

Speaker 7 (57:49):
Rich.

Speaker 1 (57:49):
You went in the city doing Nickelodeon stuff. Yeah, I
was in Union Square, which is like ten fifteen, you know,
ten twenty blocks away from World Trade, and I remember
I was I was doing an eight in the morning
shoot for Nickelodeon. At the time, I was doing Little Videos,
which was the host of Blues Clues, the original in
between all like Keenan and Kel and the Amanda show

(58:11):
and all that. I was the guy like coming up
next to Nickelodeon. So I was in the middle of
a shoot and the camera guys like, yeah, guys, I
gotta go, and we're like, where are you going? It's
like eight in the morning. He said, I live across
the street from World Trade and my wife said there's
a fire. I gotta leave. Sorry, man, and he ran
out of there. And I just remember being stuck in
the city all day and you go outside and everyone

(58:32):
was walking up from downtown like away from disaster. It
was just I remember I couldn't I couldn't get home
until that night. And again, everyone knows someone, so Mike
Kiefer is the neighbor and friend we lost in our
in our block, in our streets. Everybody was affected. Life
was never the same. You guys know the deal, whether

(58:53):
it be at the airport, but for us working in
New York, it was just constant security for years, dudes
and army gear with machine guns, and that became the
new normal. However, there were a few moments that brought
us back to normal yeah, and made us realize that, yeah,
I guess life moves forward and will be okay. Because

(59:14):
there was a sense of when could I laugh again?
When could I cheer again? When can I do anything again? Dude,
working in radio, I mean, I imagine a lot of
people listening to Fox Sports Radio would find it interesting
that we had to pull songs off the playlist because
they were insensitive. At the time, Afroman was a big deal.
We were playing it on the rock radio station about

(59:35):
getting high, then goes I got huh gone drowning Pull
Bodies was one of our biggest songs. The lyrics was
let the Bodies hit the floor. Pulled from the playlist
because it was deemed insensitive. So even the music industry,
these bands, these artists, everybody was impacted in someone sensitive lyrics.

Speaker 4 (59:52):
We had to edit a notorious big song, and we
also could no longer play gap band you dropped a
bomb on me?

Speaker 1 (01:00:00):
Oh yeah, like anything I had an insensitive reference or
that made people think of it. You had to make
the adjustments, you had to pivot. This song in heavy
rotation was remember Enrique Iglesia's Hero Yeah, And they would
put all the little clips of FDN Y and NYPD
in the song yep, but yeah. Just there were a
couple of sports moments that really helped the healing process,

(01:00:20):
and we'll set up V one because I know that
you have more thoughts about it than I do, because
you're a Mets fan. I mean, my my feeling is
that the Mets were not really competitive as we wanted
that year. But on September twenty first, ten days later,
ten days after the terror attacks, Piazza, Mike Piazza, came

(01:00:41):
to the plate at Shay Stadium the eighth inning, the
Mets trailing the rival Braves two to one, and Piazza
it was the first sporting event in this city since
the attack, and Piazza hit a blest Lopez wants it
away and left ten on the lot. This one's a
chance in the next league. Two forty one thousand fans

(01:01:07):
independence going wild. He took Steve Carse deep to left
center with a go ahead, two run home run. And
everybody at home watching that because remember everyone was rocking
the fdn wy I like a Bobby Valentine, all the
players spots playing the video now an emotional moment. Yeah,
I mean, New York went wild, and you know what
it did, give everybody the feeling like, oh we could
cheer again, we could cheer again. There was a there

(01:01:31):
was a sense of okay, you're cheering. I could yeah, Okay,
it's okay. And that's the power of sports. There's a
lot of people that pooh pooh sports like it means nothing. No,
it means it means a lot more than people really realize.
And the the other moments we're gonna talk about, we'll
get to after Dan Bayer's update dB.

Speaker 5 (01:01:46):
What's up man, guys Tonight it is the start of
Week two in the NFL season with the Commanders and
Packers from Lambeau. Kickoff comes up at eight fifteen Eastern time.
NFL Network reported earlier today that forty nine Ers quarterback
Brock Party could miss you to five weeks with a
turf toe injury, as he's likely to miss games against
the Saints and Cardinals, according.

Speaker 2 (01:02:06):
To the report.

Speaker 1 (01:02:09):
In regards to the twenty fourth anniversary of a tragic
day nine to eleven, we talked about some of the
sports moments that brought the world back to a bit
of normalcy. Of course, that Mike Piazza home run against
the Braves ten days later. The other I said, I
was thinking of two others, and I don't think they're
the ones you had for me. I was thinking of

(01:02:30):
Sammy Sosa running out with the American flag. Oh, that's
a cool one. Yeah, I had not thought about that.
I saw a feedback someone said, Sammy Sosa, it's an
iconic moment for sure. But as a Yankees fan, remember
they made the World Series then the only year is
the only year I rooted for them and they lost. Well,
not only you, even the Boston fans. Instead of singing
Sweet Caroline, they sang New York, New York, and that

(01:02:52):
was kind of cool. It's like, all right, look, this
is uniting people. At least. That's good. We're cheering for
Mike Piazza. We started feeling normal again thanks to sports.
And there's another moment too, Rich that Zach wanted to
bring up Zach and Kansas City or on the Cavino
and Rich shows.

Speaker 9 (01:03:13):
Hey it what's up, guys, big fan of the show?

Speaker 1 (01:03:16):
Thank you?

Speaker 9 (01:03:17):
Yeah, I was.

Speaker 13 (01:03:19):
I was in second grade during nine to eleven, but
I remember pretty vividly all the Thanksgiving Day game November
twenty second, two thousand and one, Dallas Cowboys versus the
Denver Broncos. When Creede performed higher during the halftime show.
That was like the most patriotic thing of all time.

(01:03:39):
And I remember, I mean, the clips still circulator on
social media all the time, and so that's just where
I wanted to bring up.

Speaker 1 (01:03:44):
That's what I dude, several great call it really is.
It's an unforgotten Actually the clip lives on, like he says,
but people forget that that's what it's from in that moment,
and it was a majestic performance of can you who
Take Mehi? And people are flying around a stadium in
the American flag. Scott Stidd was wearing the Cowboys jersey.

(01:04:06):
He's not kidding. That was a big moment and it
still lives on. But the coolest moment I think we
saved for last. Yeah, but thank you, Zach. That's a
great one. The coolest moment happened to your stadium with
the guidance of the captain Derek Jeter. Yeah, the backstory
is awesome. When they're in the tunnels getting ready for

(01:04:27):
this moment. It was Derek Jeter who told President Bush
you have to throw it from the mound and you
better not bounce it. And you better not bounce it.
And I mean George W. Bush throwing out a perfect
strike with a bulletproof vest On. I always thought the
Queen of England in the Naked Gun movie had the

(01:04:48):
coolest first pitch. Well, that was a great screwball. Yeah,
it was an amazing screwball. But this one, with the
pressure of that moment and how much it meant to
the world because this was the first game at Yankee
Stadium in the two thousand and one World Series. Everybody's watching.
This is what a sense of composure, Yeah, and amazing
and strength. I know, I know it sounds ridiculous, Gius.
You're saying it's only a first pitch, but imagine the

(01:05:10):
difference if you threw like a fifty cent or Bubba
Bowie oh pitch in that moment, it would have been
terrific strike. It'd been really bad, perfect strike from the rubber,
from the mound. And that was the first pitch of
Game three.

Speaker 2 (01:05:22):
It like showed the strength of our country, it did.

Speaker 1 (01:05:25):
It meant so much in that moment, and it was.
It was a strike thrown by our president, George W. Bush.
An amazing first pitch, probably the best first pitch in history,
more accurate than Devin Williams as of late. Right, Oh, yeah,
that's not saying a lot though, So hey, share your memory,
share your thoughts, and we thank these moments for putting

(01:05:45):
us back on track. But we'll never forget two thousand
and one, nine to eleven Again. Covino and Rich. All
your feedback at Covino and Rich at Fox Sports Radio. Now,
as far as tonight, I got no read on this game.
Maybe take the points of your Washington fan plus three
and a half, but I don't know it's gonna be
a good one. We'll see you tomorrow, see you in
the over Promised Land. We do that next you might