January 31, 2025 • 37 mins
Covino & Rich are live from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas ahead of this weekend's big fight between David Benavidez and David Morrell! The guys discuss the Taylor Swift impact on the Kansas City Chiefs and ask what other celebrities, athletes, or shows changed the game for others in sports and beyond. Broadcaster Brian Custer joins C&R to preview the big fight.
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Man.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Now, yesterday's show, we had David Benavitez, the Mexican Monster,
the headliner of tomorrow's fight.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
We had him on the show. Catch it on the podcast.
We're gonna touch on that throughout the day. But you
never know who's gonna stop by a radio row. That's
the fun of it. So I'm hearing Brian Custers in
the area. There's always fighters.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I think it's Okayleb Plant in the lobby, but we'll
be joined by Custer later on. I think Lampley for
another bonus show later on, So we'll keep you posted
here again. Cavino and Rich Live from Vegas got in
early today. It's always fun, it's always electric to be here.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Now.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
A lot of NFL because that's really what's on people's minds, right.
I mean, we're headed to the super Bowl in a
couple of days, and I saw this morning that Travis
Kelcey has to pass on the Grammys again. No Grammys
because since he's met Taylor, he's been going to the
super Bowl every year, so he can't support her, which
is you know, one sided.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
If you asked me what problem is to have in life.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I know she's winning Grammy's, he's winning Super Bowls. But
I bring that up because I saw the owner's daughter,
Gracie Hunt, said that since Travis Kelcey started dating Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Yeah, I don't know how they came up with this number.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Since they started dating, we haven't stopped talking about it.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
The world hasn't stopped tuning in. Is it merch, is
it ticket sales? Is it just everything combined? They're saying
there is a forty percent plus surge surge in Chiefs fandom,
more Chiefs fans than ever before. And it got me thinking,
what sports, what shows?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
What anything?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Just totally benefited from a moment from a person like
where do you see those surges? And the first thing
that comes to mind from me the whole meme that
before Steph Curry, the only Golden State Warriors fan was
Danny Tanner.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Yeah, Curry put him on the map for sure, without
a doubt, made them cool or cool again however you
want to look at it. But yeah, Steph Curry sort
of saved that franchise, made him cool for a future generation,
a current generation Taylor Swift, whether.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
You like it, or not.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Whether you believe it or not, the owner's daughter is
telling you popularity up forty percent, fandom up forty percent.
You have to imagine merchandise Swifties up forty percent, people
caring about it up forty percent.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
It's insane. How do you equate that?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Danny G and I were talking to our uber driver
this morning on the way to the airport.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah, because I can't shout up.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Yeah, I mean, you talked to the wall, so you'll
talk to anything, Danny. This guy did start the conversation.
He was yeppy, yeah, and he was a sports fan.
He had the iHeart app on and trust Me cove.
Before we got out of the car, Rich and I
had him tuned into Fox Sports rate. Rich was talking
to the MGM Lion statue in the lobby. So we're
talking to our uber driver. Really nice guy, and he's like,
(04:58):
you know, like, how does that even happen? Like how
do you become a fan as an adult? And I go,
you know, probably just people that didn't care and now.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Care, because he's like, don't you choose your sports alliance
as a kid. So when you say a forty percent surge,
how do you just become a Chiefs fan.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I'm like, you know, it's a lot of watch and girlfriends.
I say, casuals.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
That's easy to understand because of the swifty effect.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
That's really what that comes down to.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
It's people who never cared about football before, all of
a sudden care about.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
The Chiefs and think the Chiefs are cool.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
And that's not to take away from the fact that
I don't know they're going for a three peep Yeah,
So just by default, when dynasties are built that way,
they get a lot of casual fandom, front running fandom.
The same way you love the Bulls in the nineties,
the same people jumped on the Yankees of the early
two thousands. Any team that wins. When you think back
(05:49):
growing up, who are the teams we rooted for? Cowboys, Redskins?
I mean, you're right, you know, in the eighties teams
I'm talking about, it's the teams that win. So you
can't discredit the fact that the Chiefs gave people to
something to cheer about.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
But on top of that, the biggest pop star in
the world is like, that's my team.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
So you're right, there's a lot of you know, let's
be honest, women.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Wives, girlfriends daughters that are like, I don't really care.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
But I guess I liked it. But now they're excited
about my daughter's best friend, little Reagan. She's like, go cheez.
I'm like, you know, what do you know about the Chiefs, buddy?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
She's like Travis Kelsey's Taylorship's girlfriend. So there are and
that is a seven year kidki that you know, so
forty percent boos. So other than Steph Curry giving the
Golden State Warriors life, they were people that probably didn't
even know where Golden State was, Like, what's Golden State?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Well, I don't know if you would put this into
this conversation, but one of the first things that came
to mind for me was it wasn't necessarily that he
saved the franchise, but he saved the stadium when Ken
Griffy took Seattle to the playoffs, you know, and eventually
made them a team that people can about.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I feel like he changed the culture in Seattle at
that time.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I don't know what level of truth is behind that,
but I've heard the same thing that Seattle would have
lost the Mariners. That's the said Griffy Junior not been
the force he was came, was a force. Everybody loved them,
the kid marketable, hitting bombs, sweetest swing ever. Then they
made it to the playoffs in ninety five. But the
Yankee could it be that he alone saved that franchise?
(07:27):
I mean that's what they say. They claim that to
be true.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
So you could say that, hey, Ken Griffy was there
that made other big star players want to be there.
You had Edgar and Tino and Ichiro and a Rod
like you had a bunch of stars there. But they
credit Ken Griffy Junior for being that guy to save
baseball in Seattle.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
How about an owner. We all watched Winning time. You
saw what doctor Buss did with the Lakers organization.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Dude, that definitely applies for sure.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
The NBA was a you know, as the story goes,
people would watch pre tape games, they would air games
and already had happened, and the NBA was sort of
struggling to gain their fandom. And if not for the
Celtics Lakers rivalry and what Doctor Buss did for the Lakers,
the Lakers girls, the vibe, the celebrities like that sort
of brought at Magic Johnson and that brought the Lakers
(08:19):
to a different level.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Yeah, and then on the other side read ourbuck yeah yeah,
and what.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
He did for Celtic's lore.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
I would say in the same breath, you got a
credit Magic and Bird, right, yeah, and what they did
for the game to popularize it. But you're right started
with Bus getting Magic Johnson and creating that Lakers dynasty.
But there's so much going on here too, which you
got my wheels turn in and we'll get your phone
calls at eighty seven to seven ninety nine on Fox
Live from Vegas at Covino and Rich at Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
The way we think of those teams of.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
The eighties and nineties that we grew up on, right,
the shiny forty nine Ers and the Cowboys and those
great teams that won a lot, the Chiefs are about or
could do something that's never been done before. So they're
that to a younger person times like tenn the.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Same way some kid gravitated towards Michael Jordan and the Bulls. Yeah,
there's a kid now gravitating towards Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Now.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I don't know if Chief Steak Sammy I was saying
back at the studio will agree or not. But when
I think of the WNBA, I'm not saying the I'm
not saying they were on life support.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Booooo.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Like I feel like Kitlyn Clark's presence like resurrected women's
basketball because I almost feel like that league was a
couple of years away from like having to make some
possible decisions, and now they're headed in the completely opposite direction.
And listen, Kitlyn Clark, Angel Reese has a meal at
McDonald's now the Angel Reese meal. So I was saying,
(09:47):
would you agree that Katelyn Clark and Angel reesent, some
of these young women totally revolutionize women's basketball, no diggity,
no doubt.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Yeah, who's going to debate that? I mean, that's that's
obvious and it's a great answer.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
You all got to get their financials right though. Yeah,
they were still in debt. They will after this season
was over.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Actual NBA keeping them afloat, but definitely got people tuning
in where we weren't tuning in before the same way
the Chiefs got all these fans that weren't there again,
if you just joined us. Kelsey Part one is Kelsey
can't go to the Grammys. He's got other things going on.
That's the story today that your wife or girlfriend's going
to tell you about.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I'm busy, busy doing what I don't know, preparing for
the Super Bowl, trying to get a chief Pete.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
And the other story decides story is Taylor Swift because
of a Taylor Swift defect and her fans, Chief fandom
is up forty percent according to Gracie Hunt, the Chief's
owner's daughter. Yeah, so what other franchises we're really put
on the map because of one star player, a coach,
a moment something like that. You know, it comes to
(10:51):
mind from me, Rich not that, and I'm gonna take
it off sports just for a second. Not that it
wasn't a thing. All these things were a thing, but
it went next level once this happened AMC. It was
always there. But once The Walking Dead was on the channel,
you're like, wow, now I'm tuning in. Before that, your
mom was tuning in to watching an American movie classic.
(11:13):
You weren't ever tuning into AMC. All of a sudden
you're like, oh, yeah, the Walking Dead. I'm tuning in
breaking bed then breaking bed. You know you're you're talking about,
But it was The Walking Dead first it was was it, Yeah,
Breaking Bad debut, Breaking Bed debut to O eight Walking
Dead in twenty ten.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Yeah, what no way Breaking Bad is before that? Yep? Wow.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
But before those shows and before that run, I wasn't
tuning into AMC.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Wasn't not my favorites. Say again, Buddy Boy.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Two thousand and seven, mad Men was on AMC, so
I think they really got it started.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
And I loved the little Don Draper too. I was Sam,
you can you could link those shows an me some
Roger Ster. That trifecta of Madmen, Walking Dead and Breaking
Bad put AMC American movie classic.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
It made it one of the premiere networks for.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
The two thousands, for the two thousands, and you want
to really go back, go back to the early two thousands,
even I think it might be ninety nine. If it
wasn't for the Sopranos, we wouldn't be tuning into any
of those cable networks for those type of shows.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Well, the Sopranos sort of revolutionized how we looked at
Sunday night.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Sunday night was like what did you watch? You remember
as a kid, you watch.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Football with your dad, and then when football was over,
there was the ABC, Disney movie the Week, like Flight
of the Navigator or something. There was nothing on Sunday nights,
and then all of a sudden, we wait a minute,
the sopranos were all going to gather around. And then
you know, through all the years, all these Sunday night
shows on Showtime, HBO, Cinemax, all the way up to
the Game of Thrones, and but.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
You know what was different about The mad Men, Walking Dead,
breaking bad trifecta. It made you realize that you'll find
the shows wherever they are, Like, it didn't matter at
that point if it was on some sort of major network.
So it definitely brought a whole new slew of fans
to all different networks that were never there before. All Right,
(13:04):
so your phone calls, your feedback, it's the Taylor Swift effect.
Who else had that for what franchise? What else comes
to mind for you? Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox.
I'll give you one. It's a little well, it's true,
I mean we work for series six. I'm still on
the music side. Yeah, it went from thirty thousand subscribers
(13:26):
to like three million subscribers overnight when Howard Stern signed on. Yeah,
so it became like a household thing once he signed on.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Howard Stern changed the landscape of radio.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Yeah, and that were there, we saw it, but we were.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Part of a new company, Serious Satellite Radio, and you're right,
there were tens of thousands of people. Howard Stern signed on,
and then it went from where do you work Cyrus Radio?
Into oh, you're on Serious and then look at what
it's become. Yeah, put it on the map, and people
knew how to pronounce it, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
So he was definitely one of those guys. I got one.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
I'm curious if our pald Dan Bayer agrees because golf
has always been huge. Tiger Woods took golf from like, oh,
your dad's watching the Masters, or you're watching golf too,
like a real younger fan favorite dude to root for,
no question, Yeah, no question. I mean you can't argue
(14:18):
tiger woods impact.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Now, So who else comes to mind?
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Will take your feedback again at eight seven, seven ninety
nine on Fox at Coveno and Rich at Fox Sports
Radio and.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Let's hope this is the last Super Bowl with Taylor Swift.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Yeah, you know we said this on our bonus podcast
over there.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
I saw, Yeah, we said something on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
If Travis gets down on one knee because they're the
fairytale couple, if they went for the fairytale ending and
he asked her to get.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Married, it has to be the end.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
He has to retire, sort of like you don't propose
on National TV if that were to happen, and then
come back next year and play.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
I mean, but do we all agree, because I know
we talk about the Chiefs fatigue and while it's a
beautiful love story pun intended, we've sort of had enough
of tailor shrift.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Travis Kelsey, if I.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Told you the super Bowl resulted in a Chiefs win
a proposal, but that also meant they get married and
go off into the sunset, do.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
You say, sure, yeah, I signed me up again.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
That would be the quote unquote cliche perfect ending. But
enough after that, and I say that, respectfully, how about.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
The Eagles win?
Speaker 4 (15:25):
He still proposes, She says no, and both of them disappear.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
And she goes home with Sacon Barklay.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
But hey, you can't deny the effects she's had on
that franchise.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
I got another one. I'm so surprised Rich didn't bring
it up. I was waiting for him to bring it out,
No damn.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
But one of the biggest organizations in the world as
far as sports and entertainment, the WWE would be NAVA.
You could say Vince McMahon, but it's really hul Colgan's
nothing about the stars.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
He's the guy that people hate, holds it down on
his back.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
No, hey, that's fine, but you can't deny what he
was and what he meant to that company and the
growth of that company to where it is.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Right.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
It's a great answer if you're talking about game changes
and if you're just joining us, he was the game
chance this all started because.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
There was other stars, but he was a superstar.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Gracie Hunt, the daughter of the Chief's owner, said, Kellie
Swift is responsible for the Chiefs fan base growing almost
fifty percent. And you got to think about the impact
people and players, what Griffy Junior meant to Seattle, what
Tiger Woods meant to golf, what Caitlyn Clark means to
the WNBA, and where we're going over some of.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
These big ones.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
You can't leave Pulkster and Vince McMahon because before that,
when your grandpappy, because my grandfather was one of those
guys who'd be like, oh, Bernald Simult, you know, like
your grandparents might have watched like old dudes grappling Like now,
it is a spectacle. If you watch Raw on Netflix,
these wrestlers have ten minute ring entrances with fireworks and
(16:56):
it is.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
And there was all these integral excellents of Andre the giant,
him body slamming him, and again he needed other stars
to feed off of at that time. We grew up
with all of them, we know, but he was the
guy and he was the centerpiece of all of it
that put it on the map. Wegg like him or not,
you still have to say Hulk Hogan for sure. I
have an answer that I'm almost embarrassed we forgot. You
(17:19):
should be ashamed. You should be ashamed. You're a big
wrestling guy.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
You should be ashamed because you're missing one that you're.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Gonna want to punch yourself in the throat if.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
You say the Paul Brothers for boxing, I'm gonna choke you.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
No, You're gonna want to hit your head against his
table here.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
But you know what, I hate to say it, but
I bet you the Paul Brothers have a similar effect
of boxing that Taylor Swift has to the Chiefs because
there's so many young kids that are tuning in just
because of those guys.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Hey, ding, bet, Yeah, what's your baseball team?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
The Yankees?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
You ever hear of a guy named George Herman Ruth?
I mean, we were, you know, just a twinkle. We
weren't even a twinkle in our back to nineteen eight.
But I'm saying, weren't even a twinkle in our grit's
pantaloni yet. But back then, baseball is a thing. But
Babe Ruth became a spectacle, like a must see, like
a larger than life, almost circus like character. From what
(18:11):
you read and here, Babe Ruth baseball bach spot. That's
it all, Babe Ruth, what he meant to baseball? So,
based on the Taylor Swift story, who else comes to mind?
The game changer for that franchise?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
That person changed the stigma impression of what you previously thought.
That person saved the team, or the trajectory of like
you said, of a franchise.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Right, give us a call. Who else comes to mind?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
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(19:57):
little boxing it a little bit, but lots of NFL today.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
The story this morning was that obviously Travis Kelce had
to decline his invitation to the Grammys this weekend because
he's preparing for something.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Called the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
But the daughter of the Chief's owner, Gracie Hunt, said
that thanks to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's relationship, Chief
fandom has spiked over forty percent. And it gets you
wondering what other team shows, networks, actors, who is propelled
to product a team, a city?
Speaker 1 (20:30):
And there are some good answers.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Well, Katelyn Clark did to the WNBA, you were saying
the Sopranos, what that did to Sunday Night cable television.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
There's great answers. Let's go to you guys.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
You know, I'm also thinking you mentioned Steph Curry and
what he meant to the Golden State Warriors, right, but
what about Steph Curry meant to under armour?
Speaker 1 (20:49):
What about what Michael Jordan meant to Nike? That is show.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
These were companies that weren't doing that great until these
guys put it on the map. So eight seven, seven
ninety nine out Fox is our number? What comes to mind?
That's funny you would say that, right, I want to
go to the phones. But it's funny would say products
because when you watched Air, if you haven't great.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Movie, it was really great.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Yeah, Ben Asflex and who else isn't that Matt damontt Damon?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
You watched that movie? Hen, yes, I said ass Flex.
You realize Nike was.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
A running shoe company that was like financially, you know,
taking big chances and that chance paid off. I was
just looking at the Pixar company. Pixar was hemorrhaging money
and was looking for buyers. They were going to shut down.
Toy Story made over three hundred million dollars and since then,
(21:43):
oh you Pixar cleared up.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Yeah, you have to hear about movies that saved the company,
that saved the production company, or artists that saved the record.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Label that was going nowhere.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
So again we gave you our examples. The Taylor Swift
effect is real, whether you like it or not. People
did hit us up on social media at Covino and
Rich Well, what happens when he retires?
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Well, I think they still keep their alliance to the Chiefs,
because these are clearly casual fans that had no alliance
or allegiance to a team. Maybe moving forward, it's like, yeah, yes,
the chief for the rest of their life. When people
ask who do you reform, like, yeah, I mean I
kind of got into the Chiefs and that's the merch
they're going to lean toward for the rest of their
life and maybe even pass that down for their kids.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
So what she did for that franchise is amazing.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Oh we were talking about record companies. Yeah, if you
saw Straight out of Compton, you know some of the
story of Priority Records. Yeah, they were releasing lots of
compilation albums. They even released the California Raisins, the cartoon character.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
My wife loved those, she said, as a kid, remember those.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
And then they signed this little group called NWA.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Put them on the map. Dude saved it. The rest
is history. So cool.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Yeah, there's a lot of stories like that of record
labels that were is going nowhere, failing, ready to fold,
and then someone busts out and they're the next big thing.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Who do we got on the phones, Danny g all right,
let's start with Tony in Virginia.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Yo, what's up? Ton Cavino on Retron in Vegas? Then
head it to New Orleans. What's up?
Speaker 6 (23:14):
Listen? I wanted to go along the lines of the
tailor swift exter to win fluent. Yeah, the Nicks were
more bun franchise. Madison Square Garden was dead until Spike
Lee started sitting on the sidelines and then we got
to thirty for thirty with Reggie Miller and that got
that whole thing revived.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
So that is not a crazy answer at all.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Spike Lee, what he did courtside for the Knicks, they
gave him a vibe in the nineties when no you
had Ewing Starks, Anthony Mason, all those great characters. But
to deny that Spike Lee created a vibe that it
was must watch basketball.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Court side, I like to think my ego tells me
that Covino and Rich created a vibe At Fox Sports Radio.
The studio was dead. The only person that the studio
is Big Minke, who runs the place. But at the
same time, COVID sort of ended around that, so it
really had nothing to do with us, but I like
to think it. No, I'm convinced that we brought the
energy and fun back to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Ego says, Yo, we brought this place back to life.
But really people just went back to work.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
I know.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
You guys just made me think of Barry Bonds, who
built the stadium, the baseball stadium in San Francisco. Yes,
what did it start off as is pack Bell party? Yeah,
that wouldn't have been built had there been no Barry Bond.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
You know.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
I saw a clip of Barry Bond speaking of which
not to be a ady d radio but during the
strike season in baseball, he said he would have been.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Fifty to fifty. He's like, what eachy Road did is amazing.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
He wasn't trying to take anything away, but he said, Yo,
that was his best shot at fifty to fifty, and
he's like, I would have done it. He's like a
lot of guys would hit sixty home runs at you're going.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
I mean Mickey Mannials famously quoted for saying if he
knew forty forty was the thing, he'd done it any
every year, So fifty to fifty possibly back to your
phone calls eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox again
at Covino and Rich.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
All right, let's say what's up to Dave in Vermont?
Y'all what up Dave?
Speaker 6 (25:03):
Hey?
Speaker 5 (25:04):
Listen? So, uh, what's up? Boys?
Speaker 6 (25:07):
I was thinking.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
Peyton Manning with the Colts because that before he was there,
she took it.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
It was like a basketball town, you know, he boosted
football turn into a football town.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
You know how I know this is true because when
we were kids, if you got a cult helmet out
of the supermarket vending machine.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
You ain't kidding there. You were mad.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
And by the way, I grew up in New Jersey
and Rich grew up in Long Island, and we have
the same exact memory of trying to get those little
helmets in that quarter machine at the supermarket. You got
a Colts one, you might as well have stomped on
it right then in.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
The way out. Yeah, the weakest so Colts.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
To say that Peyton Manning made the cults relevant, made
him cool might be the understatement of the of the
nineties and the two thousands of football made him cool.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
And that's how you know the uh.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
The power of somebody, the impact of an important player
like a Peyton Manning, all right. So again we're Cavino
and Rich and I know you have Taylor Swift and
Chiefs fatigue, but the facts are the facts, and they're
going to be in the Super Bowl and probably more
than ever gonna watch because of it.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
Man, no doubt, Fox Sports Radio has the best sports
talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows
at Foxsports Radio dot com and within the iHeartRadio app
search FSR to listen.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Live from Peter Alonzo to the Mets. Are we doing
requests and dedications?
Speaker 1 (26:29):
I mean, I hope he comes back, right.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Covino and Rich live from the Benavidez Radio Row in Vegas,
Thetiraq dot com studio. I'm Steve Cavino, that is Rich Davis,
super pumped about the fight. And then from Vegas we
go right to New Orleans for the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
So hope you packed enough chonies.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Oh my goodness, We're gonna do a lot of damage,
put it this way, And to be honest, I don't
know if I have enough chonies.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
But you never know who's gonna stop my radio row.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
And it's a pleasure to welcome our next guest, our
first guest here in Vegas right now, got to take
you back to twenty thirteen, Covino and Rich we started
doing TV on SNY, New York, and there were two
guys that walked around that place with super swaged sense
of confidence. One of those guys Kevin burkhard right, always
(27:14):
so cool, but he had that swag about him and
the other guys to my left, let's welcome Brian Custler. Yeah,
it's so good to see you, man, And it really
does say a lot to me. And I think a
lot of people listening when they're the new guys and
the veteran guys there, and he's cool to the new
guys because he's so confident in himself and what he does.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
And you were that guy to us for sure. Will
always appreciate that. Listen. I thought you guys were hilarious.
That's number one.
Speaker 7 (27:42):
Number two, it trips me out that when I'm driving
around now and I'm listening to my serious ExM radio
and I turned on the FS one and Fox Radio
and that all suffen. I'm here at Caffito and Rich,
I'm like, I knew them when I knew them.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
When can you believe that was twenty three team? That
crazy crazy?
Speaker 7 (28:03):
What's even more crazy is Kevin Burkhar when he was
in studio, because obviously he was the Mets reporter, and
so when they had home games, he would come into
the studio and his desk was across from buy and
we would sit there like, man, I gotta get out of.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Here, and I gotta tell you.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
We saw these dudes on their grind and we knew
as guys, you know, coming up and working there for
the first time again s NY New York. We saw
guys like you were like, yeah, it's only a matter
of time before they move on and blow up to
something bigger.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
That's why it was great for our careers. So I
love it. I love it every time I see it.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
We'll look back at those days extremely fond of that
time and of what we did as well.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
But he was hosting a show called wheel.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Had a Wheelhouse Wheelhouse at the time, which was huge
in New York, and we'd watch it every day, especially
Rich as a Mets fan.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
I thought it was the coolest place to work as
a Mets fan.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
And then Brian I see you, and I'm like, I
feel like Brian knows a little of everything. Is boxing
something you always gravitated towards or is it just a
pop get tell you like, y'all, I'm really this is
this is for me.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
No, I'll give you a I'll give you a really,
a really good story. You know.
Speaker 7 (29:06):
At the time when I was at S and Y,
you know, they had had a show on there called
Broadway Boxing, and I was doing that, and you know,
we would do local fights all around the city.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
I never got paid to do them at all. It
just did them. It just did them.
Speaker 7 (29:20):
And you know, one day, just out of the blue,
president of Showtime Sports called S and Y in se
gotspick Brian Custer.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
He said, look, I'm in town.
Speaker 7 (29:32):
In New York, and I'm watching this program Broadway Boxing,
and how would you like to be the voice in
the face of Showtime Championship.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Wow? It can. That's how That's how I got the
job of show that story.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Because you always say, you never know who's watching no
matter what you're doing, you never know who's watching you
and who's got your eye on you.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
And you were doing great work back then.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
So again, just from the outside looking in, you left
us and why you left us in the dust, And
you know, we were doing our show S and Y
old Time and you know the boxing stuff. And then
of course a senior on Sports Center and ESPN and
and Prime.
Speaker 7 (30:07):
So tell us, like, tell us about the journey, the
crazy thing. Another story about that when when he could call.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Yeah, at the time, you remember Kurt Galdy Jr.
Speaker 7 (30:17):
Was the vice president of S and Y of course, Yeah,
So I told him my contract was coming up at
the end of the year. And this at this time,
I want to say, it might have been August or September.
And I went into Kurt's office and I said, you
know what, this has been.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
A great you know, nine ten years or whatever it
was that I.
Speaker 7 (30:35):
Was there, and I just said, I think it is
something time for me to change, and I think I'm
just going to do boxing full time at this point.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
And I remember Kurk Gowdy Jr. Looked at me and said,
what are you doing?
Speaker 7 (30:46):
And he said, that's probably be the dumbest thing you've
ever done in your career. And I'm telling you this
because I love you, is what he said. He said,
boxing is dead and your career will be dead if
you do this, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Because you were covering all sports now just boxing.
Speaker 7 (31:02):
And so I left, but I left and went to
Showtime and as soon as I went to Showtime Sports.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Everybody called me.
Speaker 7 (31:12):
It was like from radio to Fox and at that time,
Fox Sports called me because that's how I got the
job at Fox Sports. I was calling you know, college basketball,
college football games at Fox Sports. Uh, Serious XM Radio
called me. I had to show on Serious XM Radio.
Everything came because I made that move toward They saw
me on the on the national platform.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
And it was a risky move.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
You can bring up, you know, is boxing your specialty
because Jim Lampley has told us that they assigned him
boxing when he first started as a way to be
like get him out of here, and that was not
even something he was interested hoping he failed to say
they could get rid of him. So, you know, we've
noticed over the last ten plus years of doing a
lot of these boxing events, the boxing world is very welcoming. Yeah,
Like if you want to be in it, they there's
(31:53):
no egos. Honestly in the press area, everyone you want
to cover us, come on absolutely.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
You know.
Speaker 7 (31:58):
The good thing is that you open it up to
a broader audience and you know, like people ask me
all the time about the YouTubers and Jake Paul. Hey, look,
I'm not one of those purists to say, oh boxing
shit only be.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
The If we can get more eyes to the sport,
it's good for it. Oh yeah, it's good for it.
Any thoughts on the fight this weekend, I.
Speaker 7 (32:16):
Think it's gonna be really take something. And I'm not
just shilling for Prime. But if you look at this
fight car, especially the pay per view, those are four
really good fights.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
I was gonna say never, never do you see the
billboards and the posters with four fights, all good fights,
all good fight.
Speaker 7 (32:34):
I mean at the top, everybody's been wanting to see
Benavidez and Morel's like, we're gonna have to get dinner
early because we're not gonna want to miss the fight.
Fulton and figure Roll. That fight was so good. Everyone's
crying for the pit Bull.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
People love pit Bull.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Yeah he's and he's coming off a loss, so we
want him to see you know where he is now
in that division. You know, I want to ask you
about this because we had Benavidez on the show yesterday
and he looks so focused and so and and love
the Mexican Monster, have everything about this kid, right, But
he seems to be in a different mindset now because
he genuinely dislikes Morrell, that's the storyline. Yes, because he
(33:10):
talks so much smack about his family and his father
everything else.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Does that help or hurt a fighter?
Speaker 3 (33:15):
It makes it more exciting for the fans, no question
when he dislike each other. But does it take him
too much out of his own What are your thoughts on?
Speaker 7 (33:21):
I think that that's going to be really crucial for
both of these guys because of the dislike is real,
and you don't want to come out there firing away
at the beginning. That's when you make mistakes, right. It
takes you opening up pot and make a mistake. So
if you're morale, you got to keep your cool. If
your Benavita is you got to keep your cool to
some point. Now, I understand you want to give a
(33:42):
guy a beating, but you you start talking stuff once
you hurt him, not when you come right out the gate,
because then that's when you can make mistakes and you
get clipped.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Hanging with Brian Custer here on Fox Sports Radio, Cavin
on Rich Now, we were talking to Benavidez about it yesterday.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
You're calling the fights.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Yeah, these rings introductions and walkouts went from a couple
of minutes, I think, what what last time we were
in a fury fight there fifteen twenty minutes?
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Are they a little overboard?
Speaker 7 (34:09):
Or do you love the spectacle? But I think it's
now it's almost like in the NBA. You know how
in the NBA now it's like a walk. It's like
a fashion show when they when they walk through the hall,
coming through the that's what it is for boxing.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
They take the ring walk.
Speaker 7 (34:25):
So if you're like, let's say we have Tank, we
have Tank in Barclay sent there in the month, right,
you know Tank is going to come with the hottest
hip hopper, you.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Almost have to man, so you're not bringing it right,
You're not bringing it. So now it is all about how.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Can I have Benefitez doesn't come out with.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
You know, he's bringing out artists. You have to gir
else you're not big time. You're not big time.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Which is why when when Tyson for Jake Paul and
Tyson just walked.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Out of him, was like, just just walked down. When
you do it?
Speaker 2 (34:58):
We asked him about that too, like I don't I
just walked down?
Speaker 1 (35:02):
He was real it.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Nobody even wanted to be with me. Nobody wanted to
be with you.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
It's so weird.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Man.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
What did you think of that fight?
Speaker 3 (35:09):
By the way, you said you love the exhibitions, you
loved the Jake Paul Stunt.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
I thought I thought it was going to go the
way it was.
Speaker 7 (35:15):
Everyone was like, oh, but you know we're married to
the thirty year old, twenty eight year old Mike Tyson.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Yeah, the man's fifty eight years old and he needs,
you know.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Medication a level. Brian, I was the fool.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
I heard Portnoy on barstools saying, any dope that bet
on Tyson.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
I was one of those dumb because.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
You know, we were betting with her heart and we
were thinking it was nineteen ninety again.
Speaker 7 (35:37):
Absolutely, and you saw after that, say, you see them
legs he had after the second round he was he
was done after the first round.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
I was like, I should have just lit those couple
hundred dollars on the fire. I do that out the
window for sure.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
This Cavino in Rich Radio Row Vegas here with Brian
Custer is great to be here.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
You mentioned Gervante Davis. We asked Benavidez, we'll fight besides
you and Canovanella. What fight you want to see? He said,
a rematch between him and Garcia with no weight close.
How do you think that goes? And what do you
think of that division? There's so many I still was.
Speaker 8 (36:09):
I was still Tank without question, with like a healthy
Garcia without question, without because listen, you know with he's
gonna throw the left hook.
Speaker 7 (36:21):
Devin Haney, He's going to throw the left hay get
hit with the left hook.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
So he couldn't hit Tank.
Speaker 7 (36:27):
Really with that left hook, and his boxing skills are
too superior for me.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Dude, You imagine sitting next to Brian Custer at the
barbershop and everyone's spitting their opinion and this guy meanwhile,
this guy.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Is calling to fight. Did they recognize you all the
time when you at the barbershop? You know when I'm
around now the guy, what do you think? That's a
crazy thing. I trip out even more when I'm out
and people would be.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
Like, yo, that's and why that's crazy?
Speaker 1 (36:55):
That's even more crazy. But I'm proud of y'all.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Man due, thank you, continued successfully, We love Fren, Brian Custer, Coveno,
and Rich.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Then we got more.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Next talk little NFL, little NBA, and of course more
preview of this weekend Bena Vitez, Moral and your thoughts
at Covino and Rich Here on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
More next, live from Las Vegas,
Hey, thanks for listening to the Cadino and Rich Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Be sure to catch us live every weekday from five
to seven Eastern to the four Pacific on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Find your local station for comedo.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Rich at Foxsports Radio dot com, or stream us live
every day on the iHeartRadio app like searching FSR. Yeah right, we.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Are live from Vegas.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yeah, day one of what seems to be like ten
days in a row of a lot of fun between
Vegas and New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
So lots of fun here on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Yeah, but this is Vegas, Pabe Vegas.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Venay, Las Vegas.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
A lot of younger dudes know all the swingers quotes
that we abused for decades.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Like no cause the fighters that are fighting this weekend
are born after nineteen ninety six. Jeez, that movie came
out in ninety six and it was a cult classic quotable.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
But yeah, I think only we know it.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Get a little Cavino that's rich, he's so money he
doesn't even know it, and we be rocking out.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I was gonna say a fift the words out of
my mouth, and I was gonna say if you said
that to Benavidez, he'd.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Be like, yeah, money, that's that's great.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
You know why I was looking up East Soak Pitbull
Cruise because he's also fighting the undercard and we'll talk
about what to watch. We do it every Friday weekend,
hob not being here on the show what you need
to tune into in the world of sports and entertainment.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
And I looked him up. Born in nineteen ninety eight, I'm.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Like, Jesus, that's when I let's just say I was
in college.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Okay, put it that way.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
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Speaker 1 (02:09):
Man.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Now, yesterday's show, we had David Benavitez, the Mexican Monster,
the headliner of tomorrow's fight.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
We had him on the show. Catch it on the podcast.
We're gonna touch on that throughout the day. But you
never know who's gonna stop by a radio row. That's
the fun of it. So I'm hearing Brian Custers in
the area. There's always fighters.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I think it's Okayleb Plant in the lobby, but we'll
be joined by Custer later on. I think Lampley for
another bonus show later on, So we'll keep you posted
here again. Cavino and Rich Live from Vegas got in
early today. It's always fun, it's always electric to be here.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Now.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
A lot of NFL because that's really what's on people's minds, right.
I mean, we're headed to the super Bowl in a
couple of days, and I saw this morning that Travis
Kelcey has to pass on the Grammys again. No Grammys
because since he's met Taylor, he's been going to the
super Bowl every year, so he can't support her, which
is you know, one sided.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
If you asked me what problem is to have in life.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I know she's winning Grammy's, he's winning Super Bowls. But
I bring that up because I saw the owner's daughter,
Gracie Hunt, said that since Travis Kelcey started dating Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Yeah, I don't know how they came up with this number.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Since they started dating, we haven't stopped talking about it.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
The world hasn't stopped tuning in. Is it merch, is
it ticket sales? Is it just everything combined? They're saying
there is a forty percent plus surge surge in Chiefs fandom,
more Chiefs fans than ever before. And it got me thinking,
what sports, what shows?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
What anything?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Just totally benefited from a moment from a person like
where do you see those surges? And the first thing
that comes to mind from me the whole meme that
before Steph Curry, the only Golden State Warriors fan was
Danny Tanner.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Yeah, Curry put him on the map for sure, without
a doubt, made them cool or cool again however you
want to look at it. But yeah, Steph Curry sort
of saved that franchise, made him cool for a future generation,
a current generation Taylor Swift, whether.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
You like it, or not.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Whether you believe it or not, the owner's daughter is
telling you popularity up forty percent, fandom up forty percent.
You have to imagine merchandise Swifties up forty percent, people
caring about it up forty percent.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
It's insane. How do you equate that?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Danny G and I were talking to our uber driver
this morning on the way to the airport.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah, because I can't shout up.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Yeah, I mean, you talked to the wall, so you'll
talk to anything, Danny. This guy did start the conversation.
He was yeppy, yeah, and he was a sports fan.
He had the iHeart app on and trust Me cove.
Before we got out of the car, Rich and I
had him tuned into Fox Sports rate. Rich was talking
to the MGM Lion statue in the lobby. So we're
talking to our uber driver. Really nice guy, and he's like,
(04:58):
you know, like, how does that even happen? Like how
do you become a fan as an adult? And I go,
you know, probably just people that didn't care and now.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Care, because he's like, don't you choose your sports alliance
as a kid. So when you say a forty percent surge,
how do you just become a Chiefs fan.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I'm like, you know, it's a lot of watch and girlfriends.
I say, casuals.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
That's easy to understand because of the swifty effect.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
That's really what that comes down to.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
It's people who never cared about football before, all of
a sudden care about.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
The Chiefs and think the Chiefs are cool.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
And that's not to take away from the fact that
I don't know they're going for a three peep Yeah,
So just by default, when dynasties are built that way,
they get a lot of casual fandom, front running fandom.
The same way you love the Bulls in the nineties,
the same people jumped on the Yankees of the early
two thousands. Any team that wins. When you think back
(05:49):
growing up, who are the teams we rooted for? Cowboys, Redskins?
I mean, you're right, you know, in the eighties teams
I'm talking about, it's the teams that win. So you
can't discredit the fact that the Chiefs gave people to
something to cheer about.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
But on top of that, the biggest pop star in
the world is like, that's my team.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
So you're right, there's a lot of you know, let's
be honest, women.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Wives, girlfriends daughters that are like, I don't really care.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
But I guess I liked it. But now they're excited
about my daughter's best friend, little Reagan. She's like, go cheez.
I'm like, you know, what do you know about the Chiefs, buddy?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
She's like Travis Kelsey's Taylorship's girlfriend. So there are and
that is a seven year kidki that you know, so
forty percent boos. So other than Steph Curry giving the
Golden State Warriors life, they were people that probably didn't
even know where Golden State was, Like, what's Golden State?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Well, I don't know if you would put this into
this conversation, but one of the first things that came
to mind for me was it wasn't necessarily that he
saved the franchise, but he saved the stadium when Ken
Griffy took Seattle to the playoffs, you know, and eventually
made them a team that people can about.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I feel like he changed the culture in Seattle at
that time.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I don't know what level of truth is behind that,
but I've heard the same thing that Seattle would have
lost the Mariners. That's the said Griffy Junior not been
the force he was came, was a force. Everybody loved them,
the kid marketable, hitting bombs, sweetest swing ever. Then they
made it to the playoffs in ninety five. But the
Yankee could it be that he alone saved that franchise?
(07:27):
I mean that's what they say. They claim that to
be true.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
So you could say that, hey, Ken Griffy was there
that made other big star players want to be there.
You had Edgar and Tino and Ichiro and a Rod
like you had a bunch of stars there. But they
credit Ken Griffy Junior for being that guy to save
baseball in Seattle.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
How about an owner. We all watched Winning time. You
saw what doctor Buss did with the Lakers organization.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Dude, that definitely applies for sure.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
The NBA was a you know, as the story goes,
people would watch pre tape games, they would air games
and already had happened, and the NBA was sort of
struggling to gain their fandom. And if not for the
Celtics Lakers rivalry and what Doctor Buss did for the Lakers,
the Lakers girls, the vibe, the celebrities like that sort
of brought at Magic Johnson and that brought the Lakers
(08:19):
to a different level.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Yeah, and then on the other side read ourbuck yeah yeah,
and what.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
He did for Celtic's lore.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
I would say in the same breath, you got a
credit Magic and Bird, right, yeah, and what they did
for the game to popularize it. But you're right started
with Bus getting Magic Johnson and creating that Lakers dynasty.
But there's so much going on here too, which you
got my wheels turn in and we'll get your phone
calls at eighty seven to seven ninety nine on Fox
Live from Vegas at Covino and Rich at Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
The way we think of those teams of.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
The eighties and nineties that we grew up on, right,
the shiny forty nine Ers and the Cowboys and those
great teams that won a lot, the Chiefs are about or
could do something that's never been done before. So they're
that to a younger person times like tenn the.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Same way some kid gravitated towards Michael Jordan and the Bulls. Yeah,
there's a kid now gravitating towards Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Now.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I don't know if Chief Steak Sammy I was saying
back at the studio will agree or not. But when
I think of the WNBA, I'm not saying the I'm
not saying they were on life support.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Booooo.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Like I feel like Kitlyn Clark's presence like resurrected women's
basketball because I almost feel like that league was a
couple of years away from like having to make some
possible decisions, and now they're headed in the completely opposite direction.
And listen, Kitlyn Clark, Angel Reese has a meal at
McDonald's now the Angel Reese meal. So I was saying,
(09:47):
would you agree that Katelyn Clark and Angel reesent, some
of these young women totally revolutionize women's basketball, no diggity,
no doubt.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Yeah, who's going to debate that? I mean, that's that's
obvious and it's a great answer.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
You all got to get their financials right though. Yeah,
they were still in debt. They will after this season
was over.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Actual NBA keeping them afloat, but definitely got people tuning
in where we weren't tuning in before the same way
the Chiefs got all these fans that weren't there again,
if you just joined us. Kelsey Part one is Kelsey
can't go to the Grammys. He's got other things going on.
That's the story today that your wife or girlfriend's going
to tell you about.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I'm busy, busy doing what I don't know, preparing for
the Super Bowl, trying to get a chief Pete.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
And the other story decides story is Taylor Swift because
of a Taylor Swift defect and her fans, Chief fandom
is up forty percent according to Gracie Hunt, the Chief's
owner's daughter. Yeah, so what other franchises we're really put
on the map because of one star player, a coach,
a moment something like that. You know, it comes to
(10:51):
mind from me, Rich not that, and I'm gonna take
it off sports just for a second. Not that it
wasn't a thing. All these things were a thing, but
it went next level once this happened AMC. It was
always there. But once The Walking Dead was on the channel,
you're like, wow, now I'm tuning in. Before that, your
mom was tuning in to watching an American movie classic.
(11:13):
You weren't ever tuning into AMC. All of a sudden
you're like, oh, yeah, the Walking Dead. I'm tuning in
breaking bed then breaking bed. You know you're you're talking about,
But it was The Walking Dead first it was was it, Yeah,
Breaking Bad debut, Breaking Bed debut to O eight Walking
Dead in twenty ten.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Yeah, what no way Breaking Bad is before that? Yep? Wow.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
But before those shows and before that run, I wasn't
tuning into AMC.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Wasn't not my favorites. Say again, Buddy Boy.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Two thousand and seven, mad Men was on AMC, so
I think they really got it started.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
And I loved the little Don Draper too. I was Sam,
you can you could link those shows an me some
Roger Ster. That trifecta of Madmen, Walking Dead and Breaking
Bad put AMC American movie classic.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
It made it one of the premiere networks for.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
The two thousands, for the two thousands, and you want
to really go back, go back to the early two thousands,
even I think it might be ninety nine. If it
wasn't for the Sopranos, we wouldn't be tuning into any
of those cable networks for those type of shows.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Well, the Sopranos sort of revolutionized how we looked at
Sunday night.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Sunday night was like what did you watch? You remember
as a kid, you watch.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Football with your dad, and then when football was over,
there was the ABC, Disney movie the Week, like Flight
of the Navigator or something. There was nothing on Sunday nights,
and then all of a sudden, we wait a minute,
the sopranos were all going to gather around. And then
you know, through all the years, all these Sunday night
shows on Showtime, HBO, Cinemax, all the way up to
the Game of Thrones, and but.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
You know what was different about The mad Men, Walking Dead,
breaking bad trifecta. It made you realize that you'll find
the shows wherever they are, Like, it didn't matter at
that point if it was on some sort of major network.
So it definitely brought a whole new slew of fans
to all different networks that were never there before. All Right,
(13:04):
so your phone calls, your feedback, it's the Taylor Swift effect.
Who else had that for what franchise? What else comes
to mind for you? Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox.
I'll give you one. It's a little well, it's true,
I mean we work for series six. I'm still on
the music side. Yeah, it went from thirty thousand subscribers
(13:26):
to like three million subscribers overnight when Howard Stern signed on. Yeah,
so it became like a household thing once he signed on.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Howard Stern changed the landscape of radio.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Yeah, and that were there, we saw it, but we were.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Part of a new company, Serious Satellite Radio, and you're right,
there were tens of thousands of people. Howard Stern signed on,
and then it went from where do you work Cyrus Radio?
Into oh, you're on Serious and then look at what
it's become. Yeah, put it on the map, and people
knew how to pronounce it, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
So he was definitely one of those guys. I got one.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
I'm curious if our pald Dan Bayer agrees because golf
has always been huge. Tiger Woods took golf from like, oh,
your dad's watching the Masters, or you're watching golf too,
like a real younger fan favorite dude to root for,
no question, Yeah, no question. I mean you can't argue
(14:18):
tiger woods impact.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Now, So who else comes to mind?
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Will take your feedback again at eight seven, seven ninety
nine on Fox at Coveno and Rich at Fox Sports
Radio and.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Let's hope this is the last Super Bowl with Taylor Swift.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Yeah, you know we said this on our bonus podcast
over there.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
I saw, Yeah, we said something on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
If Travis gets down on one knee because they're the
fairytale couple, if they went for the fairytale ending and
he asked her to get.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Married, it has to be the end.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
He has to retire, sort of like you don't propose
on National TV if that were to happen, and then
come back next year and play.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
I mean, but do we all agree, because I know
we talk about the Chiefs fatigue and while it's a
beautiful love story pun intended, we've sort of had enough
of tailor shrift.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Travis Kelsey, if I.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Told you the super Bowl resulted in a Chiefs win
a proposal, but that also meant they get married and
go off into the sunset, do.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
You say, sure, yeah, I signed me up again.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
That would be the quote unquote cliche perfect ending. But
enough after that, and I say that, respectfully, how about.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
The Eagles win?
Speaker 4 (15:25):
He still proposes, She says no, and both of them disappear.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
And she goes home with Sacon Barklay.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
But hey, you can't deny the effects she's had on
that franchise.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
I got another one. I'm so surprised Rich didn't bring
it up. I was waiting for him to bring it out,
No damn.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
But one of the biggest organizations in the world as
far as sports and entertainment, the WWE would be NAVA.
You could say Vince McMahon, but it's really hul Colgan's
nothing about the stars.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
He's the guy that people hate, holds it down on
his back.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
No, hey, that's fine, but you can't deny what he
was and what he meant to that company and the
growth of that company to where it is.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Right.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
It's a great answer if you're talking about game changes
and if you're just joining us, he was the game
chance this all started because.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
There was other stars, but he was a superstar.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Gracie Hunt, the daughter of the Chief's owner, said, Kellie
Swift is responsible for the Chiefs fan base growing almost
fifty percent. And you got to think about the impact
people and players, what Griffy Junior meant to Seattle, what
Tiger Woods meant to golf, what Caitlyn Clark means to
the WNBA, and where we're going over some of.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
These big ones.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
You can't leave Pulkster and Vince McMahon because before that,
when your grandpappy, because my grandfather was one of those
guys who'd be like, oh, Bernald Simult, you know, like
your grandparents might have watched like old dudes grappling Like now,
it is a spectacle. If you watch Raw on Netflix,
these wrestlers have ten minute ring entrances with fireworks and
(16:56):
it is.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
And there was all these integral excellents of Andre the giant,
him body slamming him, and again he needed other stars
to feed off of at that time. We grew up
with all of them, we know, but he was the
guy and he was the centerpiece of all of it
that put it on the map. Wegg like him or not,
you still have to say Hulk Hogan for sure. I
have an answer that I'm almost embarrassed we forgot. You
(17:19):
should be ashamed. You should be ashamed. You're a big
wrestling guy.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
You should be ashamed because you're missing one that you're.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Gonna want to punch yourself in the throat if.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
You say the Paul Brothers for boxing, I'm gonna choke you.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
No, You're gonna want to hit your head against his
table here.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
But you know what, I hate to say it, but
I bet you the Paul Brothers have a similar effect
of boxing that Taylor Swift has to the Chiefs because
there's so many young kids that are tuning in just
because of those guys.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Hey, ding, bet, Yeah, what's your baseball team?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
The Yankees?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
You ever hear of a guy named George Herman Ruth?
I mean, we were, you know, just a twinkle. We
weren't even a twinkle in our back to nineteen eight.
But I'm saying, weren't even a twinkle in our grit's
pantaloni yet. But back then, baseball is a thing. But
Babe Ruth became a spectacle, like a must see, like
a larger than life, almost circus like character. From what
(18:11):
you read and here, Babe Ruth baseball bach spot. That's
it all, Babe Ruth, what he meant to baseball? So,
based on the Taylor Swift story, who else comes to mind?
The game changer for that franchise?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
That person changed the stigma impression of what you previously thought.
That person saved the team, or the trajectory of like
you said, of a franchise.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Right, give us a call. Who else comes to mind?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
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(19:57):
little boxing it a little bit, but lots of NFL today.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
The story this morning was that obviously Travis Kelce had
to decline his invitation to the Grammys this weekend because
he's preparing for something.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Called the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
But the daughter of the Chief's owner, Gracie Hunt, said
that thanks to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's relationship, Chief
fandom has spiked over forty percent. And it gets you
wondering what other team shows, networks, actors, who is propelled
to product a team, a city?
Speaker 1 (20:30):
And there are some good answers.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Well, Katelyn Clark did to the WNBA, you were saying
the Sopranos, what that did to Sunday Night cable television.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
There's great answers. Let's go to you guys.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
You know, I'm also thinking you mentioned Steph Curry and
what he meant to the Golden State Warriors, right, but
what about Steph Curry meant to under armour?
Speaker 1 (20:49):
What about what Michael Jordan meant to Nike? That is show.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
These were companies that weren't doing that great until these
guys put it on the map. So eight seven, seven
ninety nine out Fox is our number? What comes to mind?
That's funny you would say that, right, I want to
go to the phones. But it's funny would say products
because when you watched Air, if you haven't great.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Movie, it was really great.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Yeah, Ben Asflex and who else isn't that Matt damontt Damon?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
You watched that movie? Hen, yes, I said ass Flex.
You realize Nike was.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
A running shoe company that was like financially, you know,
taking big chances and that chance paid off. I was
just looking at the Pixar company. Pixar was hemorrhaging money
and was looking for buyers. They were going to shut down.
Toy Story made over three hundred million dollars and since then,
(21:43):
oh you Pixar cleared up.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Yeah, you have to hear about movies that saved the company,
that saved the production company, or artists that saved the record.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Label that was going nowhere.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
So again we gave you our examples. The Taylor Swift
effect is real, whether you like it or not. People
did hit us up on social media at Covino and
Rich Well, what happens when he retires?
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Well, I think they still keep their alliance to the Chiefs,
because these are clearly casual fans that had no alliance
or allegiance to a team. Maybe moving forward, it's like, yeah, yes,
the chief for the rest of their life. When people
ask who do you reform, like, yeah, I mean I
kind of got into the Chiefs and that's the merch
they're going to lean toward for the rest of their
life and maybe even pass that down for their kids.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
So what she did for that franchise is amazing.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Oh we were talking about record companies. Yeah, if you
saw Straight out of Compton, you know some of the
story of Priority Records. Yeah, they were releasing lots of
compilation albums. They even released the California Raisins, the cartoon character.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
My wife loved those, she said, as a kid, remember those.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
And then they signed this little group called NWA.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Put them on the map. Dude saved it. The rest
is history. So cool.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Yeah, there's a lot of stories like that of record
labels that were is going nowhere, failing, ready to fold,
and then someone busts out and they're the next big thing.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Who do we got on the phones, Danny g all right,
let's start with Tony in Virginia.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Yo, what's up? Ton Cavino on Retron in Vegas? Then
head it to New Orleans. What's up?
Speaker 6 (23:14):
Listen? I wanted to go along the lines of the
tailor swift exter to win fluent. Yeah, the Nicks were
more bun franchise. Madison Square Garden was dead until Spike
Lee started sitting on the sidelines and then we got
to thirty for thirty with Reggie Miller and that got
that whole thing revived.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
So that is not a crazy answer at all.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Spike Lee, what he did courtside for the Knicks, they
gave him a vibe in the nineties when no you
had Ewing Starks, Anthony Mason, all those great characters. But
to deny that Spike Lee created a vibe that it
was must watch basketball.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Court side, I like to think my ego tells me
that Covino and Rich created a vibe At Fox Sports Radio.
The studio was dead. The only person that the studio
is Big Minke, who runs the place. But at the
same time, COVID sort of ended around that, so it
really had nothing to do with us, but I like
to think it. No, I'm convinced that we brought the
energy and fun back to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Ego says, Yo, we brought this place back to life.
But really people just went back to work.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
I know.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
You guys just made me think of Barry Bonds, who
built the stadium, the baseball stadium in San Francisco. Yes,
what did it start off as is pack Bell party? Yeah,
that wouldn't have been built had there been no Barry Bond.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
You know.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
I saw a clip of Barry Bond speaking of which
not to be a ady d radio but during the
strike season in baseball, he said he would have been.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Fifty to fifty. He's like, what eachy Road did is amazing.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
He wasn't trying to take anything away, but he said, Yo,
that was his best shot at fifty to fifty, and
he's like, I would have done it. He's like a
lot of guys would hit sixty home runs at you're going.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
I mean Mickey Mannials famously quoted for saying if he
knew forty forty was the thing, he'd done it any
every year, So fifty to fifty possibly back to your
phone calls eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox again
at Covino and Rich.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
All right, let's say what's up to Dave in Vermont?
Y'all what up Dave?
Speaker 6 (25:03):
Hey?
Speaker 5 (25:04):
Listen? So, uh, what's up? Boys?
Speaker 6 (25:07):
I was thinking.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
Peyton Manning with the Colts because that before he was there,
she took it.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
It was like a basketball town, you know, he boosted
football turn into a football town.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
You know how I know this is true because when
we were kids, if you got a cult helmet out
of the supermarket vending machine.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
You ain't kidding there. You were mad.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
And by the way, I grew up in New Jersey
and Rich grew up in Long Island, and we have
the same exact memory of trying to get those little
helmets in that quarter machine at the supermarket. You got
a Colts one, you might as well have stomped on
it right then in.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
The way out. Yeah, the weakest so Colts.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
To say that Peyton Manning made the cults relevant, made
him cool might be the understatement of the of the
nineties and the two thousands of football made him cool.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
And that's how you know the uh.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
The power of somebody, the impact of an important player
like a Peyton Manning, all right. So again we're Cavino
and Rich and I know you have Taylor Swift and
Chiefs fatigue, but the facts are the facts, and they're
going to be in the Super Bowl and probably more
than ever gonna watch because of it.
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Live from Peter Alonzo to the Mets. Are we doing
requests and dedications?
Speaker 1 (26:29):
I mean, I hope he comes back, right.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Covino and Rich live from the Benavidez Radio Row in Vegas,
Thetiraq dot com studio. I'm Steve Cavino, that is Rich Davis,
super pumped about the fight. And then from Vegas we
go right to New Orleans for the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
So hope you packed enough chonies.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Oh my goodness, We're gonna do a lot of damage,
put it this way, And to be honest, I don't
know if I have enough chonies.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
But you never know who's gonna stop my radio row.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
And it's a pleasure to welcome our next guest, our
first guest here in Vegas right now, got to take
you back to twenty thirteen, Covino and Rich we started
doing TV on SNY, New York, and there were two
guys that walked around that place with super swaged sense
of confidence. One of those guys Kevin burkhard right, always
(27:14):
so cool, but he had that swag about him and
the other guys to my left, let's welcome Brian Custler. Yeah,
it's so good to see you, man, And it really
does say a lot to me. And I think a
lot of people listening when they're the new guys and
the veteran guys there, and he's cool to the new
guys because he's so confident in himself and what he does.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
And you were that guy to us for sure. Will
always appreciate that. Listen. I thought you guys were hilarious.
That's number one.
Speaker 7 (27:42):
Number two, it trips me out that when I'm driving
around now and I'm listening to my serious ExM radio
and I turned on the FS one and Fox Radio
and that all suffen. I'm here at Caffito and Rich,
I'm like, I knew them when I knew them.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
When can you believe that was twenty three team? That
crazy crazy?
Speaker 7 (28:03):
What's even more crazy is Kevin Burkhar when he was
in studio, because obviously he was the Mets reporter, and
so when they had home games, he would come into
the studio and his desk was across from buy and
we would sit there like, man, I gotta get out of.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Here, and I gotta tell you.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
We saw these dudes on their grind and we knew
as guys, you know, coming up and working there for
the first time again s NY New York. We saw
guys like you were like, yeah, it's only a matter
of time before they move on and blow up to
something bigger.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
That's why it was great for our careers. So I
love it. I love it every time I see it.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
We'll look back at those days extremely fond of that
time and of what we did as well.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
But he was hosting a show called wheel.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Had a Wheelhouse Wheelhouse at the time, which was huge
in New York, and we'd watch it every day, especially
Rich as a Mets fan.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
I thought it was the coolest place to work as
a Mets fan.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
And then Brian I see you, and I'm like, I
feel like Brian knows a little of everything. Is boxing
something you always gravitated towards or is it just a
pop get tell you like, y'all, I'm really this is
this is for me.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
No, I'll give you a I'll give you a really,
a really good story. You know.
Speaker 7 (29:06):
At the time when I was at S and Y,
you know, they had had a show on there called
Broadway Boxing, and I was doing that, and you know,
we would do local fights all around the city.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
I never got paid to do them at all. It
just did them. It just did them.
Speaker 7 (29:20):
And you know, one day, just out of the blue,
president of Showtime Sports called S and Y in se
gotspick Brian Custer.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
He said, look, I'm in town.
Speaker 7 (29:32):
In New York, and I'm watching this program Broadway Boxing,
and how would you like to be the voice in
the face of Showtime Championship.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Wow? It can. That's how That's how I got the
job of show that story.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Because you always say, you never know who's watching no
matter what you're doing, you never know who's watching you
and who's got your eye on you.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
And you were doing great work back then.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
So again, just from the outside looking in, you left
us and why you left us in the dust, And
you know, we were doing our show S and Y
old Time and you know the boxing stuff. And then
of course a senior on Sports Center and ESPN and
and Prime.
Speaker 7 (30:07):
So tell us, like, tell us about the journey, the
crazy thing. Another story about that when when he could call.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Yeah, at the time, you remember Kurt Galdy Jr.
Speaker 7 (30:17):
Was the vice president of S and Y of course, Yeah,
So I told him my contract was coming up at
the end of the year. And this at this time,
I want to say, it might have been August or September.
And I went into Kurt's office and I said, you
know what, this has been.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
A great you know, nine ten years or whatever it
was that I.
Speaker 7 (30:35):
Was there, and I just said, I think it is
something time for me to change, and I think I'm
just going to do boxing full time at this point.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
And I remember Kurk Gowdy Jr. Looked at me and said,
what are you doing?
Speaker 7 (30:46):
And he said, that's probably be the dumbest thing you've
ever done in your career. And I'm telling you this
because I love you, is what he said. He said,
boxing is dead and your career will be dead if
you do this, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Because you were covering all sports now just boxing.
Speaker 7 (31:02):
And so I left, but I left and went to
Showtime and as soon as I went to Showtime Sports.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Everybody called me.
Speaker 7 (31:12):
It was like from radio to Fox and at that time,
Fox Sports called me because that's how I got the
job at Fox Sports. I was calling you know, college basketball,
college football games at Fox Sports. Uh, Serious XM Radio
called me. I had to show on Serious XM Radio.
Everything came because I made that move toward They saw
me on the on the national platform.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
And it was a risky move.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
You can bring up, you know, is boxing your specialty
because Jim Lampley has told us that they assigned him
boxing when he first started as a way to be
like get him out of here, and that was not
even something he was interested hoping he failed to say
they could get rid of him. So, you know, we've
noticed over the last ten plus years of doing a
lot of these boxing events, the boxing world is very welcoming. Yeah,
Like if you want to be in it, they there's
(31:53):
no egos. Honestly in the press area, everyone you want
to cover us, come on absolutely.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
You know.
Speaker 7 (31:58):
The good thing is that you open it up to
a broader audience and you know, like people ask me
all the time about the YouTubers and Jake Paul. Hey, look,
I'm not one of those purists to say, oh boxing
shit only be.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
The If we can get more eyes to the sport,
it's good for it. Oh yeah, it's good for it.
Any thoughts on the fight this weekend, I.
Speaker 7 (32:16):
Think it's gonna be really take something. And I'm not
just shilling for Prime. But if you look at this
fight car, especially the pay per view, those are four
really good fights.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
I was gonna say never, never do you see the
billboards and the posters with four fights, all good fights,
all good fight.
Speaker 7 (32:34):
I mean at the top, everybody's been wanting to see
Benavidez and Morel's like, we're gonna have to get dinner
early because we're not gonna want to miss the fight.
Fulton and figure Roll. That fight was so good. Everyone's
crying for the pit Bull.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
People love pit Bull.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Yeah he's and he's coming off a loss, so we
want him to see you know where he is now
in that division. You know, I want to ask you
about this because we had Benavidez on the show yesterday
and he looks so focused and so and and love
the Mexican Monster, have everything about this kid, right, But
he seems to be in a different mindset now because
he genuinely dislikes Morrell, that's the storyline. Yes, because he
(33:10):
talks so much smack about his family and his father
everything else.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Does that help or hurt a fighter?
Speaker 3 (33:15):
It makes it more exciting for the fans, no question
when he dislike each other. But does it take him
too much out of his own What are your thoughts on?
Speaker 7 (33:21):
I think that that's going to be really crucial for
both of these guys because of the dislike is real,
and you don't want to come out there firing away
at the beginning. That's when you make mistakes, right. It
takes you opening up pot and make a mistake. So
if you're morale, you got to keep your cool. If
your Benavita is you got to keep your cool to
some point. Now, I understand you want to give a
(33:42):
guy a beating, but you you start talking stuff once
you hurt him, not when you come right out the gate,
because then that's when you can make mistakes and you
get clipped.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Hanging with Brian Custer here on Fox Sports Radio, Cavin
on Rich Now, we were talking to Benavidez about it yesterday.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
You're calling the fights.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Yeah, these rings introductions and walkouts went from a couple
of minutes, I think, what what last time we were
in a fury fight there fifteen twenty minutes?
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Are they a little overboard?
Speaker 7 (34:09):
Or do you love the spectacle? But I think it's
now it's almost like in the NBA. You know how
in the NBA now it's like a walk. It's like
a fashion show when they when they walk through the hall,
coming through the that's what it is for boxing.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
They take the ring walk.
Speaker 7 (34:25):
So if you're like, let's say we have Tank, we
have Tank in Barclay sent there in the month, right,
you know Tank is going to come with the hottest
hip hopper, you.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Almost have to man, so you're not bringing it right,
You're not bringing it. So now it is all about how.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Can I have Benefitez doesn't come out with.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
You know, he's bringing out artists. You have to gir
else you're not big time. You're not big time.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Which is why when when Tyson for Jake Paul and
Tyson just walked.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Out of him, was like, just just walked down. When
you do it?
Speaker 2 (34:58):
We asked him about that too, like I don't I
just walked down?
Speaker 1 (35:02):
He was real it.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Nobody even wanted to be with me. Nobody wanted to
be with you.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
It's so weird.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Man.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
What did you think of that fight?
Speaker 3 (35:09):
By the way, you said you love the exhibitions, you
loved the Jake Paul Stunt.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
I thought I thought it was going to go the
way it was.
Speaker 7 (35:15):
Everyone was like, oh, but you know we're married to
the thirty year old, twenty eight year old Mike Tyson.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Yeah, the man's fifty eight years old and he needs,
you know.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Medication a level. Brian, I was the fool.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
I heard Portnoy on barstools saying, any dope that bet
on Tyson.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
I was one of those dumb because.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
You know, we were betting with her heart and we
were thinking it was nineteen ninety again.
Speaker 7 (35:37):
Absolutely, and you saw after that, say, you see them
legs he had after the second round he was he
was done after the first round.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
I was like, I should have just lit those couple
hundred dollars on the fire. I do that out the
window for sure.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
This Cavino in Rich Radio Row Vegas here with Brian
Custer is great to be here.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
You mentioned Gervante Davis. We asked Benavidez, we'll fight besides
you and Canovanella. What fight you want to see? He said,
a rematch between him and Garcia with no weight close.
How do you think that goes? And what do you
think of that division? There's so many I still was.
Speaker 8 (36:09):
I was still Tank without question, with like a healthy
Garcia without question, without because listen, you know with he's
gonna throw the left hook.
Speaker 7 (36:21):
Devin Haney, He's going to throw the left hay get
hit with the left hook.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
So he couldn't hit Tank.
Speaker 7 (36:27):
Really with that left hook, and his boxing skills are
too superior for me.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Dude, You imagine sitting next to Brian Custer at the
barbershop and everyone's spitting their opinion and this guy meanwhile,
this guy.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Is calling to fight. Did they recognize you all the
time when you at the barbershop? You know when I'm
around now the guy, what do you think? That's a
crazy thing. I trip out even more when I'm out
and people would be.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
Like, yo, that's and why that's crazy?
Speaker 1 (36:55):
That's even more crazy. But I'm proud of y'all.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Man due, thank you, continued successfully, We love Fren, Brian Custer, Coveno,
and Rich.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Then we got more.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Next talk little NFL, little NBA, and of course more
preview of this weekend Bena Vitez, Moral and your thoughts
at Covino and Rich Here on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
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