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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
What's the most frustrating beginning to a sport? Meaning if
you're bowling and you have an open frame in the
first frame. That if you're a pitcher and you get
lit up in the first inning and it's like, oh,
one run, you gave up two runs in the first inning,
and yeah, a rough start. Or is it like what's
happening to Georgia right now? They're in the first half

(00:44):
and it's thirty to ten Gonzaga. Like when you just
when you just can't get it going. What's the worst feit?
That's when you wish you had life's reset button. Remember
when you have a bad start to a Nintendo game
on a tiwback Thursday and you just reach with your
big toe to reset it.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
How About when your favorite NFL team gets scored on
and then your defense comes up, you know, you know
what I mean, like, you get blown out in the
first quarter.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
Basically when they score quick and then you like fumble
the kickoff and it's like fourteen nothing like that cover.
You see it in fighting a lot. Someone comes out,
you know, with a nasty right hook to the head.
That dude gets popped. He's never the same throughout the
rest of the fight. I got one now again, it's
sometimes it just unfortunately bad circumstances. You ever see a

(01:29):
good fighter gets accidentally headbutted early on in the fight
or cut and yeah, you're cut, And I'm saying so
they're already rattled, they're struggling.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
You saw the worst cut in boxing history.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
The Tim Zoof Anddora fight. Yeah, but what I'm saying
that was the result of a headbutt. So imagine you're
a fighter and you're game planning and training for months
and in like the second round, the other guy accidentally
head but you and you cut your eyebrow and then
you're bleeding the fight. Where is life's reset most important?
In sports? Life's reset? And how about when you're in

(02:02):
a heated game of mini golf, not real golf because
I'm not there yet in life, but mini golf and
you start off with a really bad like five six,
What is harm No, I think the number one answer
for me, I mean bowling. Yeah, I was gonna say
is we all have this fantasy that we're gonna bawl
three hundred. The other ones are all relatable if you're
an athlete of a pro level. But I think if

(02:24):
you're bowling with some friends, or you go with the
wife or your girlfriend or your kids bowling, if you
have like a seven and then you missed the pocket
on like on a spare and you're like open frame,
could yeah, starting a game to start the game weeknight. However,
as a you know, a superstar pitcher when I was

(02:44):
like a teenager that never played.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
As an adult, you think you were a bellyitcher.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
But I do remember the feeling of a one two
three first inning as a pitcher versus two guys got
on base. I let up a run, like you just
it's just not how you want to start a game.
So that's another big one. What's the worst Because it
looks like Clemson's off to a band's start. It looks
like Gonzaga is beating Georgia by twenty in the first So,

(03:09):
speaking of brackets, which I know we're not gonna have
time for it.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
On this show.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
We will talk about brackets and other conversations to avoid
on over promised right after this show on Fox Sports
Radio's YouTube page. But listen unless your final four is
out of it. You're in it really until then because
there's upsets in every round.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
But I did want to bring this up today.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
Cavino will say that I've been dropping this fun fact
all week. The chance of someone having a perfect bracket
is one in nine point two quintillion quintillion impossible, and
that one is and one is mister perfect, mister perfect,

(03:53):
one in nine point two quintillion. So just for perspective,
I did a little research. I don't mind you dropping
that fun fact because every time you've said it, I
could drop that cool mister perfect joke.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Fourth time you've done it, I've been counting.

Speaker 4 (04:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
No, it's given me the opportunity to shout out mister
perfect four or five times the late great card heading,
So one in nine point two quintillion. I want to
just throw some perspective at you guys of other far
fetched things. So when your bracket's already busted and it's
you know, two oh eight West Coast time.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
Mm hmm. And you're thinking my bracket.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
And for the record, we all filled out our bracket.
We're just trying to explain that no one wants to
hear about yours. Everybody cares about their own, they just
don't care about yours. I made that point when we
walked in. Brie, who's it's a lovely producer.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
I love brace.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
She's in the editing room. Oh, Briella, Briella, she ripped
her pants today. I'm sure she wants me to tell everyone.

Speaker 5 (04:49):
On Fox Sports Radio, everyone laughed about I don't even
know that I'm here.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
That's why I sorry running through the parking garage in
sweats ye I swear.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
So bri ripped her pants. She said, she bought us
a cute new outfit and it ripped in the crotch.
She had to have like uber go to toss pree
right there, that's pre and she had to have sweatpants
delivered here so that she get up pants. And I said,
you know what, no one would even notice because everyone's
so self involved that if you would have turned the corner, Brie,

(05:20):
and someone said, rich for a million dollars, what is
bre wearing, I would have.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
Got it wrong.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
Also, we have staplers and tape. You could just jimmy
rig that thing. Give mcguy for that. I wouldn't have noticed.
So we're all over stimulated today. I'm not even paying ten.
Everyone's overstimulated, and everyone's only concerned about themselves.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
When you have a big piple, you could have.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
A big pimple on your nose and you think everyone's looking.
No one even notices. However, this bracket thing one in
nine point two quintillion. For perspective, I did a little
research other things that seem very impossible. What do you
think the chances of winning the power are not as

(06:02):
high as the bracket.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
One in two hundred and ninety two million. Wow.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
To win the Mega millions one in three hundred and
two million. To get eaten by a shark in the
ocean one in two hundred and sixty five million.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
Wow. Really, that's some bad luck to be struck by
lightning one in sixteen thousand. A lot of people get
tricked by lightning, apparently.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
And to bring it back to sports, to show the
perspective of this perfect bracket where you guess all sixty
three games right, one in nine point two quintillion to
make it into professional sports. Fewer than two percent of
D one collegiate athletes make it into the pros. Less
than two percent of Division one college athletes go professional,

(06:56):
in fact, in the NFL one in ten thousand, in
Major League Baseball one in twenty two thousand, and in
the NBA one in fifty five thousand.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
So to put a perspective of the people out there
that played sports in high school, college, anything to make
things of the pros is tough enough. You've seen those
You've seen those people do, like their little demonstrations like you,
you know, how many kids play a little league or
pony ball millions and millions, and then how many of
those played junior, high, high school, college, minor league.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
Get your wittles down. It whittles down and whittles down.

Speaker 1 (07:30):
So to think how tough it is to get into
pro sports, to win the lottery, to be eaten by
a shark, You know, I didn't look this one up.
Knock on what to beleian A plane crash. That's why
when all these terrible flight things are happening, you still
have to remember there's one hundred thousand flights to take
off out of the United States every day one hundred thousand.

Speaker 3 (07:50):
You have a better chance to be killed by a
meteorite than you do to have a perfect bracket.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
It's true. So you're telling me there's a chance so
one in eight hundred and forty millions.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
We'll think think about it, like so to have a
meteor hit you the odds. So when companies are like, hey,
we'll give you millions if you get a perfect bracket,
they might as well say we'll give you trillions we'll
get a perfect bracket.

Speaker 5 (08:12):
It may be a quintillions promising you a trip to Mars,
which we know is not even possible. So like, maybe
it's like if you actually, somehow did get a perfect bracket.
He's like, okay, we'll figure that out at some point.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
But it happened.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
I was saying, you brought it up yesterday. I thought
the documentary was fascinating. Do you remember that Pepsi promotion
where they select enough points.

Speaker 5 (08:31):
He was a little cut out coupon or a little
uh the barcode upc thing on a case of Pepsi
or mount dude jet liner you needed like sixty million points.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
Or something a fighter fighter, But they made it like
a joke in the commercial. And when people literally try
to do it right, that's a Docuy actually did it,
and you know what it's It just shows you how
hard it is.

Speaker 4 (08:54):
The end.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
I just want to put a perspective, because what are
you gonna do with all that pepsi in Mount Dew? Like?
Could you watch talk about it?

Speaker 1 (09:00):
No?

Speaker 2 (09:00):
But I mean you have to store all that in
like a warehouse. Then it goes bad.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
I did I forgot how he did it, but they did.
They got a warehouse. He had people to fund him.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
Because yeah, he had to get investors.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
You can't just buy millions of kid, how much you
think millions of cases the pepsi coth So this.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
Kid did it. You might as well just buy a
fighter jet from like the Russians or something. I mean,
it's much more cost efficient.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
So just to put a perspective. If your bracket stinks,
you're not alone. Everyone's bracket stinks. In fact, what was
the luckiest thing that ever happened to you're growing up?

Speaker 2 (09:32):
It's a good question.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
I never even want a raffle, Never a raffle, nothing
like that. No, yo, you want like a cakewalk. My
kid's little League at Ben's pony Ball opening day, we
want a fifty dollars gift card to an ice cream shops.
It's not a perfect bracket, but this is an amazing story
in my life. Okay, it's not a perfect bracket. Okay,

(09:53):
but there has to be what's right under quintillion. There's
probably one and oh trillion chances this bazillion. This is
at least one in the bazillion chances. You know those
carnival games where there's bottles and you have to throw
those little red rings on those bottles. It's very hard,
but the little red rings are just the right size
to fit on top of those bottles, right, And there's

(10:15):
usually likes.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
And usually there's usually one like golden bottle.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
I'm glad you said that, because there was five hundred bottles. Okay,
one gold bottle. I swear to God this is the truth.
And I think it was six flags, if I'm not mistaken.
I six flags. There's one gold bottle. The rest of
them are like brown. Right, and you get those little
bucket of red rings you.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
I had the little flick, a little flicker.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
Right, dude, it was like, I swear you so it
was like it was like one of my ancestors, and
an angel from above caught it mid flight and placed
it perfectly right on the only golden bottle, like Christopher
Lloyd and angels in the old so weird.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
I couldn't believe my eyes. Dude. It was like bleak
was like what dude?

Speaker 1 (11:01):
Nobody believed it and you know what, you know, they
advertised like you can win a TV. They didn't have anything.
They didn't have anything because no one wins that. So
I'm like, wait, oh wait. So they advertised like flat
screen TV or a mountain bike, and they're here, here's
a tweety bird stuff there.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
Come in the back. We'll discuss this. Wait for you.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
There's only one out of five hundred the chances of winning.
I get Scooby Doude. Hell no, And it's funny you
say that rich. I actually got a mountain bike out
of it. I wanted the TV, but they were like,
we gonna give you a mountain bike. And at the time,
I was like, I could actually use a mountain I
was in college. I could use a mountain bike. Took
the mountain bike, and uh, that's my story.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
That was due.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
But that was a one in a trillion chance when
I did the math, So yeah, I was pretty lucky.
It's no bracket, dude, but it was pretty dope. I
mean there's some people you see that on their DraftKings
or FanDuel or whatever. They'll be like, I'm like one
leg away.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
From a you know, fifteen leg parlay, and that it's
self is one of those. But that's a bet I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
In life, when do you feel like Danny, do you
have a moment where you're like, yeah, it was like
my luckiest moment.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
As a kid. No, I mean I was.

Speaker 3 (12:13):
I was like, I got a job that I was
trying really hard for. I was fifteen years old at
the time and it was an official legit FM radio station,
so I felt super lucky getting hired after the intern
you know that feeling after an interview where you it's
the hardest night's sleep, you don't know if you're going
to get a call back. Yeah, I had to bring
a work permit in. I'm thinking, there's the odds are

(12:33):
stacked against me. So by far, I was like the
little doogie houser on the FM radio station staff. So
that probably was like my luckiest moment as a kid.

Speaker 1 (12:43):
And we see these half court shots with all that
pressure for big Bucks.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
You know what was really lucky? Did you see that
Luca shot warming up? Give me a bar? Great? Got that? Yeah, Richard?

Speaker 1 (12:53):
You see this dude, he's like in the stands and
he just launches it up from behind the backboard, like
by the tunnel.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
He goes from.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
Behind the backboard, high arc, swish, nothing but the bottom.
Remember when we were kids. It was way crazier than
anything you've seen Steph Curry do before. Larry Bird would
do that in warm ups and I remember seeing that
on like Warner Wolfs. I gotta say, you're as a kid,
you know, when you when you think about luck in sports,
of course, the immaculate reception comes to mind.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
But the immaculate.

Speaker 1 (13:24):
Reception for me is when that field goes kicked and
it was a dude that jumped out of the stands
with such precision, perfect and he caught it midair.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
People don't you know, People don't realize that was Isaac Lowancross.
True timing involved on that.

Speaker 6 (13:40):
That's crazy that security guards were a little touchy with
me after that.

Speaker 1 (13:45):
I remember being like, wait a minute, but one more
sports one and I have I know, Sam, you have one,
and I have a story about Covino that I think
was his luckiest moment. But in sports, do you guys
remember when Paul O'Neill bobbled the ball in right old
and for some reason he's like it and he just
kicked it with his foot.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yeah, and it was like went in line to the
cutoff man.

Speaker 1 (14:07):
It's on his baseball reference like throws righty, kicks lefty
or whatever.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
Yeah, it was unbelievable. But is that legal?

Speaker 7 (14:14):
It is?

Speaker 2 (14:15):
Wow, you can't throw your glove at a ball, can you?

Speaker 4 (14:16):
Though?

Speaker 2 (14:16):
I don't think thats all right? What if it lands
in the glob? Hold on? Can you know?

Speaker 1 (14:20):
Show me the Lucas shot? Yeah, watch the shot? Talk
about luck. There's like so much luck in that.

Speaker 5 (14:24):
I mean, it's obvious skill, but look how ridiculous like
I was in warm ups. Yeah, and then he would
go on to have what that huge first quarter?

Speaker 2 (14:32):
Yeah? Yeah come yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
So my my moment that I think Kavino's forgetting was
his luckiest moment. And I don't want to be vulgar
here on Fox Sports Radio, but don't make me clumpy.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
Does this involve Patriots cheerleaders? Close your ears. All right,
I better clean it up here.

Speaker 1 (14:47):
We were in our twenties. Every every good story starts
with we were at our twenties. Well justifies it? Yeah,
justifies it too.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
Wait wait, wait, you need one of these sound effects.
It was two thousand and something. We were at a
super Bowl party.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
And at this super Bowl party were the New England
Patriots cheerleaders and you can imagine they were smoking hot.
They were one of these girls, you could imagine a model,
blonde looking cheerleader, probably like the hottest one.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
She's like, hey, you what was like she had? Like
she was like.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
Teeriod, like she was sad. She comes up to Covino
and she's like, you come with me, like me, and
she brings Covino back to her hotel. I remember waiting
in the lobby for two minutes. But apparently her boyfriend
had cheated on her, and she's like, I'm gonna get revenge.

(15:42):
Covino happened to look like her boyfriend.

Speaker 4 (15:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:45):
The scoop was I looked I resembled them so and
I remember I reaped the benefits of this guy being
a Peter.

Speaker 3 (15:53):
I guess I got cheated on by Mario Lopez. I Yes, yeah, probably,
And I remember being.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
Like, did this just happened? Did he? She just happened
to be.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
A guy that looked like this hot girl a lucky night,
So yeah, that's got one probably give you Probably sometimes
lucks on your side, sometimes not so much.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
Sam, what's your lucky story?

Speaker 5 (16:10):
So about thirteen months ago, this was a mid February
of last year, Des Bryant on X shared that he
did a thirteen leg college basketball parlay and he won
four hundred and seventeen thousand dollars. He had a thirteen
leg parlay. That's crazy and he won. I mean to
be a retired football player and to win four hundred

(16:30):
and seventeen thousand dollars, that's like a couple paychecks. Then
you're like, Okay, that's some good money.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
You know what.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
The big story in the East Coast I was growing up.
If you grew up in the New York, New Jersey area,
this was a big headline. I don't know if it
made it out here on the West coast. This is
at the height of when Jennifer Lopez is Jenny from the.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
Block j Lo.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
Everyone's at bull j Loo j Lo. As popular as
she is now. The big story was her mother went
down to Atlantic City and Jlo's mom won the million
dollar slot machine or real of fortune. Yeah, and it
was like really, of all people, jlo mom like, guys,
if she needs it, but remember that story. Yeah, of
course he was like Jennifer Lopez, her.

Speaker 2 (17:05):
Mom of people.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
So your lucky story feel free to share eight seven
seven ninety nine one Fox, but you need to be
what one And I'll say it one last time and
then I'll retire it until next year. Guys, one and
nine point two quintillion ridiculously more tricky than winning the powerball,
the Mega millions and getting eaten by a shark while

(17:28):
being struck by a meteor at the same time.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
You could happen. You could take the phone out of anything.
Definitely could happen. Hey, guys, you could do it though.
Remember so you're telling me there's a chance.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
If Harry thought there was a chance, Lloyd Lloyd Christmas
a guy like you, squirrelgool like me, skirrel goool.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
I was way off, all right, thank you.

Speaker 1 (17:51):
I was saying, if you get that perfect bracket, Fox
Sports Radio pays you in IOUs a briefcase, wull I
use it maybe occasionally five dollars bill money, guys, soun's
as good as money.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
I say a ferrari.

Speaker 3 (18:03):
When we first started promoting this, I pictured our boss,
Scott Shapiro, sitting down with the lawyer for our network
and saying, OK, one million, can we say ten million?

Speaker 2 (18:13):
You could say five hundred. Yeah, there's not a briefcase
with a million.

Speaker 4 (18:16):
You can up.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
You can end up with a mountain boy. You could
say five hundred million dollars and Colin Cowhard gives you
lapt answers.

Speaker 3 (18:21):
They were like, Howie Mandel, briefcases on the on the table.

Speaker 8 (18:25):
I think.

Speaker 7 (18:27):
It's a billion dollars.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
Not impossible, but it's the closest thing to impossible. It
is it's improbable.

Speaker 3 (18:33):
No, technically, it's not Impolitically it's not impossible.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
But wels this thing. You could. But we just talked
about how you could win the power Ball and get
hit by a meteor, and still that's better odds.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
Talking about crazy luck. You need crazy luck to get
a perfect practice. Look at Clemson's coming back.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
Oh yeah, they got three minutes to let yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
And by the way, speaking of to come back, while
you were watching John Cena, I was watching a new
Burt Chryser special and it's called Lucky Lucky Yes on Netflix.
So whatever you're watching, enjoy it, Enjoy your March madness,
dipsy dude, dunk garu, and a week from today will
all be enjoying some baseball enjoy over promise. Right after

(19:16):
this show, well, let's get to the phone calls at
eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
Then we'll talk some Ron Washington.

Speaker 1 (19:22):
Kind nice, what's up Joe in Sacramento? What's up Joe?

Speaker 8 (19:26):
Hey, what's going on?

Speaker 4 (19:27):
Guys?

Speaker 2 (19:27):
What's our brother?

Speaker 8 (19:28):
I wanted to share a lucky story with you guys
that I.

Speaker 9 (19:31):
Experienced back way back.

Speaker 8 (19:33):
In the late nineties, mid nineties.

Speaker 4 (19:35):
Okay, two, in the sixth grade.

Speaker 8 (19:37):
There was a soda company, I don't know if you
guys remember it called Surge, of course, So they were
given out prizes, you know, under the bottle cap type,
saying well, I found a bottle cap and I looked
at it and there was a code on it.

Speaker 4 (19:50):
I got the code.

Speaker 9 (19:51):
It was for the walkie talkies. So I won two
free walkie talkies. I was stoked.

Speaker 8 (19:56):
Well then it got better because I was I was
waiting for him to come they came. My dad says,
let's check out the range. I started walking down the road.
Hey was at the house.

Speaker 9 (20:04):
Got about a quarter mile down the road.

Speaker 8 (20:06):
I found a twenty dollar bill.

Speaker 2 (20:12):
And that's the luckiest this guy's ever got. Fighting money.
He's great, you know, finding money and laundry that you forgot.

Speaker 5 (20:17):
I found a dollar on a park bench or on
a bus stop bench, and I was like, my lucky day.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
Man, a nickel in the pocket. Nickel pocket, and I
got a dollar dollar.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
Thanks for sharing, We appreciate it. Shout out to rapid
radios too. By the way, speaking of luck, to wrap
it up, it all comes down to who's lucky enough
to win. March manness your bracket. No one's gonna be perfect.
You feel that way about box pools at the Super Bowl,
like you could get crappy numbers. I always remember the
story my dad loves to tell where he got eight
and nine. And this was the Super Bowl, Danny, where

(20:47):
your Raiders ended up beating the Washington Redskins. Yeah, he's terrible.
I remember being a little boy. I could hardly understand football.
He's like, oh, buddy, Dad's not gonna win. These are
the worst. He's a weist, and the Raiders won thirty
eight to nine, and eight and nine are not traditionally
good numbers for a box bul.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
So sometimes you get lucky.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
I always think of this when you go to a stadium.
And speaking of Bert Kreisher, see the show All Ties Together.
I saw recently, for the hell of it, he just
bought everyone in his whole section at a ballgame a
bunch of fifty to fifty raffle tickets.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
Did you see that? He just wont a ton of them.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
Do you know anyone that's ever won the fifty to
fifty at a stadium?

Speaker 2 (21:27):
No? I kind of feel like it's a scam. Dude.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
You'll see You'll be at Dodger Stadium and they'd be like, ah,
the fifty to fifty raffles up to ninety thousand dollars.
You know, you get half and they give the other
half to get charity or something. I've never known one
person to be like, you guess what, I won forty
grand where.

Speaker 2 (21:44):
I was at the Brewers game and I won the
fifty to fifty.

Speaker 3 (21:48):
Never never met him ever, Like do they have to
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Ever?

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They don't show a winner up on the scoreboard or
anything at the end of a game probably is a scam.

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Speaker 1 (22:54):
Now before we get into old school, when fifty hits,
we do it every Thursday throwback conversation. Today's like a
terrible anniversary of sorts, but we're gonna have some fun
with it. We'll explain. Got to talk about Ron Washington.
What is he seventy three? You know what I always
think about how he looks like George Jefferson. I think

(23:17):
about how long he's been in the game, right, what
a nice guy is, and what a great coach he's been.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
I've only heard good things about it.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
But don't you remember when some little kid was baby
Ron Washington for Halloween?

Speaker 2 (23:28):
I do, but he went viral. It was like the best.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
It's like a little baby George Jefferson.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
Rangers uniform had like the horseshoe black. I don't know
why I always think of that.

Speaker 1 (23:40):
It's so funny, and I always feel bad for him
because that Rangers team was a strike away from winning
the World Series. They went to a couple World Series
and just couldn't get the job done. Remember they lost
to David Freeze. And he's one of those guys you
would like to see win eventually, but not at the
expense of my team. But you know, Ron Washington's been
doing it a long time. No, we never gets blame.
Not that I want to throw him under the bus.

(24:01):
Someone fill in the blank from me. I know, Isaac's
gonna have it on the tip of his tongue. Who
is the right fielder for the Rangers? Who if he
made a really nice play. It wasn't an easy play
by any means, but right fielder for the Rangers. If
in Cavilli, you stop. It was in Hamilton, No, but no,
it was a It was not a white player. It
was a guy in right field who missed and got

(24:22):
misplayed it slightly. But it was in Nelson Cruse.

Speaker 4 (24:26):
Cruise.

Speaker 1 (24:27):
Nelson Cruz slightly misplayed a ball a little bit. It
would have been a phenomenal play. But if he makes
that play, the Rangers win the World Series and no one,
no one ever really blames Nelson Cruise rightfully, so would
have been but it would have been a really, really
great catch anyway. So Ron Washington seventy three years old,
by the way, so keep in mind that's my dad
is seventy three. Yeah, that that's perspective because you know,

(24:51):
he's in great shape, he's doing he's still doing it.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
So people his age retired.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
If you're a guy that's you know, roughly forty, your
dad is Ron Washington's age likely, right. So I bring
this up because I'm torn on it and a lot
of times I want to come here with an opinion
where I'm like, guys, here's my opinion.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
You know it's in uh in stone, but.

Speaker 1 (25:12):
I really don't know. I feel like I want to
talk it out with you, guys. Ron Washington has banned
phones in the clubhouse for the Angels. Now the Angels
are a team with terrible luck. Speaking of luck, the
Angels are a team that you remember, like a couple
of years ago was the first time they were in
first place at the same time as the Dodgers. Ever,
with the the Angels are never good O two. The

(25:35):
rally Monkey was like their one moment of glory. Last
time they won was when Danny Glover was the manager. Right,
you're gonna come with us too? What about bullpen phones?
They're taking those out too. So Ron Washington, who I do,
love his vibe saying no phones in the club, no

(25:56):
cell phones, no smartphones, and you got to ask yourself,
a bunch of plays in their twenties and thirties, are
they gonna be like, yo, f this? And he's put
Mike Trout and some of the team leaders in charge
of how much to find should be And it seems
like there's people behind it. And I'm like, they are
behind it, because if they weren't, then they look like

(26:16):
a bunch of complaining bachas. Or do you think a
bunch of young men want a no phone policy? Now
the theory is don't, But that theory not the point.
The theory is Ron Washington wants to force his team
to talk to each other exactly, to bond and communicate.

Speaker 2 (26:33):
Is this forced? Do you think it's brilliant? Do you
think it's ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
I don't know the answer, because every time I convince
myself like, dude, outdated, get Ron Washington out of here,
this is stupid. I think it's great because even if
it doesn't work, it's not gonna come back to this
being the issue. Right, It's either gonna work and great
or it doesn't. And that's not even the reason you
thought people didn't want to go to the Yankees because
offacial hair. Imagine it's like, yeah, dude, you know all

(26:58):
day when you're in the clubhouse and getting ready, you
can't have your phone. Here's what I think. It's a
great idea. First of all, it's also a storyline on
The White Lotus this season. The White Lotus season three.
The whole premise there is they're in Thailand and they're like,
all right, give us your phone so the families could
bond together. And Jason Isaac's character is a businessman who's
dealing with some issues and he doesn't want to give

(27:18):
up his phone, right, But the whole point is so
that you could bond. That's why you're there, get to
know each other. Take it back, and I think in
this case, you got to think outside the box. And
that's what Ron Washington's doing here. He's like, look, I
played and lived in an era where this was the
way it was, and we all bonded as a team.
We're better as a result. And if this helps the team,
good But again, if they stink, it's not going to

(27:41):
be because of this.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
So it's a no lose move that he can get
the best.

Speaker 1 (27:45):
I'm saying you could argue that, you know, this outdated
type of thinking would would upset the young players.

Speaker 5 (27:51):
So I just saw a study someone posted it about this,
like in Australia or Swede in some country, they did
all the high schools there you could not have your
phone all all day, and they found out that kids
were learning better, they had better social skills. They were
like there was less anxiety from like cyberbullying. Iowa's legislature
wants to do this too, where they're going to ban
cell phones all day and it's good. It's been overwhelming positive.

(28:15):
So it's like these guys are paid millions. They can
go without their phone for however many hours.

Speaker 2 (28:19):
I'm all for.

Speaker 1 (28:19):
It in high schools. I'm wondering will it work at
a clubhouse? Think about it. We'll take your feedback. Next,
let's go to our buddy I Loo for an update.

Speaker 2 (28:28):
Is well, a lot going on in the hang on?
Hey man, you want to put your phone away?

Speaker 9 (28:36):
Look at it?

Speaker 2 (28:37):
Sorry, look at you?

Speaker 10 (28:39):
Sorry?

Speaker 2 (28:39):
Ron Smart.

Speaker 6 (28:43):
You know the real reason already Morna doesn't want to
pay the wireless bill.

Speaker 2 (28:46):
That's all right.

Speaker 1 (28:53):
We do this every Thursday, old school and fifty hits.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
What we gonna do by his go back.

Speaker 10 (29:03):
Back into time, throwing it back for a Thursday, Old
School went fifty hits. That's fifty after CNR give you
the time capsule topic and we reminisce together.

Speaker 2 (29:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:16):
So last week we were on vacation. I was doing
the backstroke in a sonote.

Speaker 8 (29:20):
Rich.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
You were in Mexico with the spring Breakers.

Speaker 1 (29:23):
Rich was in a booty shaking contest that yeah, people
BEI I don't know that if you was in Cabo.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
We weren't here.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
And last week was the anniversary of when Rudy Gobert
rupped the microphones.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
Remember that.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
Of course we were working at ESPN at the time. Like,
what is going on? Yeah, he started COVID. Yeah yeah, Like, man,
he's not taking this serious.

Speaker 2 (29:41):
This is a bad look. I remember sitting in the
newsroom when we worked up there.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
And it was the day last week when we all
got word Tom Hanks has COVID.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
Yeah, wait, this is getting serious now, Tom Hanks.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
Well, this week, Danny g you said one of your
greatest memories hearing the news Right about when COVID started,
it was announced that Tom Brady officially agrees to move
on to Tampa Bay for a two year deal, fifty
million guaranteed.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
Yeah, because we were like, is there even gonna be
an NFL season.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
Yeah, so you know we started hearing all these different
random things and.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
Could we go back to work.

Speaker 1 (30:20):
We were washing our hands singing Happy Birthday, so we wanted.
It wasn't a fun time. It really wasn't. But as
we look back five years ago this week when that
happened year, what are some of your random memories during COVID?
Could be sports related, doesn't have to be. It could
be sports, It could be just those random things you remember,

(30:41):
like going to the supermarket and they would only let
certain people in at a time. I remember they would
let old ladies in early in the morning. Yeah, senior citizen, am,
But if you've got some random memories five years ago
this week, we're talking the anniversary of coronavirus. And I
bring it up because today is the day five years

(31:04):
ago Tiger King was released on Netflix. So we met
Joe Exotic on this day five years ago today, So
leave that we'll reminis a little bit five years ago.
Your odd, weird memories from the early days of COVID.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
Oh you know you could do too.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
Look at your phone and search March twenty twenty, see
where you were on this day.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
Let's go old school.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
Today marks the five year anniversary of Isaac Lohmenkron's favorite show,
Tiger King. Honestly, it's a show that none of us
would have ever tuned into, hadn't we had been so
bored and making puzzles and sour no bread and washing
our hands over and over again, wiping down our groceries,
all the stupid stuff we were doing to kill time.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
This was our only option, is the only reason we cared.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
Look at the date, It's a twentieth right, So Friday
the thirteenth was the last day many people were at
the office, So this was seven eight days into a quarantine.
And Netflix is like, hey, here's a documentary about weird
people that were that have jungle cats.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
Show all you cool cats and kittens.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
Yeah, ridiculous, so ridiculous that we were all exposed to this,
and we all talked about it, we all watched it,
and again, it was a totally total timing sort of thing.
Otherwise we wouldn't have cared about Joe Exotic, but instead
we all watched and we all knew that song.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
You remember that stupid song. It wasn't even him singing
that son tag.

Speaker 3 (32:27):
N I saw tag.

Speaker 2 (32:34):
And a tiger song man. Now, if you remember back
at this time when we're.

Speaker 1 (32:39):
So bored, everyone's jumping on zoom together, everyone's making videos
from home. Spot was making sour dough bread like a
lot of people were. Yeah, I was so bored at home,
I was making videos. I did my own version of
that stupid song five years ago. Take a listen. Hey,
it's Quarantino Cavino with my latest jam that I'm working on.

Speaker 2 (32:59):
Everybody feel free to sing along.

Speaker 11 (33:03):
La saliche ta jitter rebla swage Jeeves average Davis.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
Which Davis was a goon, La salvage Dave. Everybody swage Davis.

Speaker 2 (33:24):
He was a jitter reba food.

Speaker 1 (33:27):
So thank you for making that five years ago and
you just on repeat Averrich Davis was a goom. So
what were your weird memories from five years ago when
you were watching Joe Exotic and Tiger King when COVID
first started and you were, like you said, you were
wiping down your groceries. You were getting back from the supermarket,
and I remember, like, you know, everyone has their own

(33:48):
time out of when they played it safe in what
they did, but you ever taking like Clarox wipes and
wiping down the packaging and everything boxes.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
Yeah, they would get they would arrive. I never wiped
the groceries down.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
Well, the thing is, and I did the thing is
at this time again. Last week was the Rudy Gobert story.
This week is when we were introduced to Yep, Joe Exotic.

Speaker 3 (34:07):
Five years ago, Tom Brady announced he was going to
the Bucks after twenty years.

Speaker 1 (34:11):
Yeah, Patriot, you're like, okay, well that's cool news because
you're thinking ahead, right Brady.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
March Madness was canceled.

Speaker 1 (34:17):
I was gonna say, why were we watching Tiger King?
I don't know, because the tournament that's going on today
was cancer.

Speaker 5 (34:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
Five days all wondering like, hey, we were supposed to
have this two week curve thing. Are we heading back
to work or what?

Speaker 3 (34:30):
Yeah, five days before the tournament was set to begin,
it was canceled.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
So weak, dude.

Speaker 1 (34:35):
So anyway, when we all look back personally, and I
know everybody feels the same way, but it really like
it sucked, dude. I hated every second of this. I
hated it to the high heavens. We're going to try
to have some fun with it today. Your random memories
Five years ago so I know some people lost people,
there were some tragedy involved. We're keeping the lighter side
of things, Like you know, there's a lot of people

(34:56):
that benefited from this, namely influencers because at that time,
musically turned into TikTok and that blew up and you
started seeing people doing their zoo Carol Baskt kild her
husband whacked him and all.

Speaker 2 (35:09):
These dancing trends.

Speaker 1 (35:10):
But were you zooming anybody? You were doing Skype before
this happened.

Speaker 3 (35:15):
There's still people right now who get to work from home,
and that would not be possible had it not been
from their company branching out and allowing them to work
from home.

Speaker 6 (35:24):
Or the listeners don't know this. All of us are
actually at our homes right now. By the way, here
at Fox Sports Radio. Here at Fox Sports Radio, we
had to dig a little deeper to find live sports news.
Here is a clip from March fifteenth, twenty twenty, when
our top story was live badminton. Listen, finally, hold on

(35:47):
to your socks and shuttlecocks. Because at the Yonix World
Badminton Championships, Yuki Fukushima and Sayaka Heroda of Japan said
Cyan ar to China's do you wagh and Lee yin
Wee twenty one thirteen.

Speaker 2 (36:03):
That's what I call March madness.

Speaker 3 (36:05):
That wow, do you know one thing I'll never forget
on our networks? First of all, we all had a
zoom call with Scott our boss, and he told all
of us, he said, obviously, these are interesting times. We're
all going to have to dig a little deeper to
find really good entertaining content for the listeners. Because you know,
nobody was sure with network, TV, radio, whatever. We didn't

(36:27):
know would there be less listeners, would there be more?
Turned out, the listenership like tripled because people had all
this extra time to take in TV shows and radio
and television. So that was one thing that was a
little strange was suddenly there were eleven million listeners instead
of six million or whatever it was.

Speaker 1 (36:48):
And you know what, it was great for radio and
Fox Sports Radio and in US professionally we ended up
in a better place. But you know what it also did,
in an eye rolling way, let everyone think they could
do their own podcasts from home. That that and it
did sort of water down our world like like during
towards the end of COVID, that's when you bump into
someone and they're like, you know, I do a podcast,

(37:10):
and you're.

Speaker 2 (37:10):
Like, changed everything.

Speaker 3 (37:12):
It was funny to hear the different hosts though, in
what they would cover, Like I'll never forget Ben Maller
covered a Marble Championship race where people were racing marbles.
I remember that, And remember there were the the NASCAR
drivers that were doing the simulated race car races in
their contraptions. There were so many odd ends that were

(37:33):
being covered in discussed, and a lot of it was
amusing because people were like, what are you guys gonna
talk about?

Speaker 2 (37:40):
Well, we found things to talk about, that's all. Yeah,
everybody had to pivot and that's our strength. So yeah,
we were fine.

Speaker 1 (37:45):
We were in sweatpants and we were drinking more than ever.
But what were your memories that stood out?

Speaker 2 (37:50):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (37:50):
Do you know what, that's a great one. Cavino. I
hadn't wore sweatpants since middle school.

Speaker 2 (37:55):
Pe Oh.

Speaker 1 (37:56):
He came back hard, and I started wearing sweatpants all
the time time, and in fact, I'm wearing jeans today.
In the last year or so, that's when I actually
started dressing like a human again. It was a major comeback.
I got way too sweatpat comfy, and I think a
lot of people did. Puzzles became a thing. So what
were your memories five years ago when we were introduced
to Joe Exotic could be in the world of sports,

(38:19):
it could be just in your life. Oh what do
you remember most? I got five years ago? One in
the world of sports. I won it back on a Thursday.
First of all, I remember Jimmy Butler doing his big face,
big face coffee inside the bubble.

Speaker 2 (38:30):
That's a good one.

Speaker 1 (38:31):
Remember when he he was he was charging other NBA
superstars twenty dollars for a cup of coffee, and since
then he has opened.

Speaker 2 (38:37):
Up coffee shops. How about this?

Speaker 1 (38:40):
Do you remember Major League Baseball? Certain stadiums and teams
were selling cardboard cutouts that you could put in the stands,
Like if you wanted Danny G's cardboard cutout at a stadium,
you could buy it.

Speaker 3 (38:52):
I was in Dodger Stadium. Clay Travis did a bit
we show your Twitter editar. It's my Twitter avatar.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
I'm gonna go there right now. Danny G Radio shows.
How little I pay attention to you? Veryone noticed.

Speaker 3 (39:05):
I didn't notice that it was Yeah on the Klay
Travis Show.

Speaker 2 (39:09):
That was a bit that we do your famous photo
with the blue bat. Yeah, that's that.

Speaker 3 (39:14):
So just to have a funny cutout, I held a
whiffleball bat. Oh I didn't know that's what it was from. Yeah,
of course we know that. Oh that's hilarious.

Speaker 1 (39:23):
Dude, that's some picture Spot uses when he goes to
you and videos. All right, so Danny G Radio, if
you want to check it out, let's go to the
phones eight seven seven ninety nine out Fox. It really
is like it leaves such a weird feeling inside because
you're like, that was five years ago something happened where
it just feels so odd, like time went super fast

(39:44):
since then, because it like there was it was a
major stamp in our life, right, so everybody remembers it,
and then it's like every time it was so much
quicker after that cat ever since right.

Speaker 7 (39:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (39:53):
But I what I don't want to do is how
this get political.

Speaker 1 (39:56):
But I do want to bring up one point that
I think one the big negatives besides obviously this affecting people,
you know, certain people, the elderly compromised people did get
affected died. I think I think that the reality is
that it separated us more than ever. Like I think
we were politically divided a little bit before that. You know,

(40:17):
there are people that love Trump, pay Trump, but I
think during COVID, I think that how people treated COVID,
we were more separated than ever before. And I saw
this firsthand because I live out here in La. My
wife's from Texas. We were renovating our house. We went
back and forth from Texas to LA every three weeks
to check on the progress of our house. I'd come

(40:38):
back here to La, people would be double masks walking
down the street. I'd go to Texas and our friends
would be like.

Speaker 2 (40:44):
Want to get dinner? And I remember being like, we
are living in different worlds. I had friends.

Speaker 1 (40:50):
I'd go out for a brunch with my friends in Texas.
Then I'd come back here and I'd be like her guards,
I'm more on a mask. Like I remember being like,
what world do we in? Because depending on where you lived,
you acknowledge or you didn't. And it was very interesting
was the different levels of yeah, precaution, hating talking about
it like puts me into a place that I hate
actually have to stand up because it gives me anxiety.

(41:10):
I hate it, uh eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox.
Let's go to the phones. Let's say hi to Justin
in South Dakota. Justin, what do you remember from five
years ago when you were watching Joe Exotic?

Speaker 4 (41:23):
Well I never seen Joe Exotic, but I was going
through a stage four Don Hodgkins and Poma cancer, So jeez.

Speaker 2 (41:35):
Yeah, well it's good news he's here with us. You
know what I had for you? You're here? Yeah? Yeah,
that player of the year.

Speaker 3 (41:41):
What a hard time for people to have medical issues
because if you remember, we all started missing our dentis appointments.
We weren't going to check ups anymore. No one's getting
a haircut exactly. And if you were sick or you
had someone unfortunately pass away in the house, you needed
hip surgery. What if you needed someone like electic surgery,
You're like, I can't.

Speaker 1 (42:00):
Danny's right, Sam. I have a friend who lost their father,
not the COVID, he passed away with something else, but
they couldn't even be with him in the hospital.

Speaker 2 (42:08):
Yeah, it was horrible.

Speaker 1 (42:09):
I think another thing, dude, I started giving friends haircuts
when I had clips, and I was good at it.
So spotty haircut there's a video where our video guy
spot he was even lazier then. That's if that's possible.
But I remember he had not got a haircut for
a month and then COVID happened, so he was like
overly due for haircuts.

Speaker 2 (42:28):
So one day while we're doing the radio show from home,
meussed off the clips.

Speaker 1 (42:31):
Cavino gave him a sweet fade and we're like wow,
and that's when people started getting floabies again.

Speaker 2 (42:37):
Yeah, George Clooney was one of them, right, I remember
him talking about it.

Speaker 5 (42:40):
Rich, hold on before you go to call you, Your
kids would have been very young when COVID struck, right,
So I'm thinking about all the parents who either had
like kids between the ages of zero to five, or
the parents that had to like educate, like homeschool their kids.

Speaker 2 (42:55):
And work Sam.

Speaker 1 (42:56):
I think that sounds I'd like the most stressful home
life ever. I think about how rateful I am that
my kids were too young during COVID, But you had
to be around them twenty four to seven, right.

Speaker 2 (43:05):
For for a while.

Speaker 1 (43:06):
On a side note though, selfishly, yeah, my son was
a newborn, so it was sort of a yeah, good time, right, Yet.

Speaker 2 (43:14):
Kept people in germs away from Not only did he.

Speaker 1 (43:17):
Just got to be home, no, meaning I was stuck
at home when I had My son was born in
February of twenty twenty, so when he was one month old,
COVID happened. So I was the dad that was able
to be there and help my wife all the time
goes go to work.

Speaker 2 (43:32):
No one's going to work.

Speaker 1 (43:33):
So selfishly, I was like, not a bad time to
have a baby during COVID. However, if you had kids
that were in school, what an fan nightmare? Imagine your
your teenage kids in high school and every day they're
on their laptop trying to learn from your and.

Speaker 5 (43:46):
You're maybe trying to work from home, and think about
how how like what cabin fever you'd have and at home.

Speaker 1 (43:52):
Not only that I was telling Kavino earlier, imagine you're
the dad or mom that's saved for your kid's college
tuition and you have tens of thousands of dollars your
kids sitting in the kitchen doing college.

Speaker 2 (44:03):
Meanwhile you're spending tens of thousands of dollars.

Speaker 3 (44:05):
You know what gives me anxiety, Covino, The fact that
we had to eat through door dash and Uber eats
and all that.

Speaker 2 (44:12):
Oh, I still do muchless delivery. That's that stuck around.

Speaker 3 (44:15):
Yeah, I did, but I had never used those services
until COVID, and Rich never washed.

Speaker 2 (44:20):
His hands before COVID. That's facts, that's the truth. Facts.

Speaker 1 (44:23):
We were gross before COVID. I went back to not
washing my hands on the back to the phones again.
What do you remember from five years ago?

Speaker 2 (44:31):
This week? Keep it light? Yeah, trip in Vegas? What's up? Trip?

Speaker 12 (44:36):
Hey guys, Good to have y'all back. Miss Jall last week,
thanks Bud. Still listen though, But Miss Jall. Two things well,
especially being in Las Vegas. One, you just mentioned door Dash.
That created something that stinks that contactless delivery equals. I mean,
I'm not a door dash driver, but that meant people
didn't have to tip. That's number one. And then the
second thing is I've got pictures I took my girlfriend

(44:57):
at the time that we got to go do this.
I've got walking on the strip by the Bellagio and
all that. I felt like Will Smith and I am
legend there was nothing on the street.

Speaker 1 (45:07):
I I have a video trip outside of the Staple
Center before it was crypto, right. Covino and I used
to work at ESPN Downtown La. I have a video
that looks like a ghost town. It looks like honestly,
like you said, I am legend Will Smith like I
was there. It was it was the weekend after everyone
was quarantined, and I'm like, guys like, look at downtown La.

(45:28):
It's nothing's here. I was one of those guys. I
thought I was a day trader. I don't know if anyway, Isaac,
did you dabble in that I was Sam. I was
one of those guys that was every day I was
buying like penny stocks, and I'd have great days, bad days.
Everyone thought they were a day trader. You know what's weird.
I'm numbing this up. Even before COVID. You know who
was a huge day trader, Al Michaels for real. Yeah,

(45:52):
during those days, like I'd have buddies tip me off,
like hey, buy this pharmaceutical stock and it would go
up like three hundred percent a day and by zoom,
And I remember telling.

Speaker 2 (46:00):
My wife like, I think this could be my side hustle.
Rich was a day trader. I was a day drinker.
My best friend was Tito's.

Speaker 1 (46:07):
Tito's was my best friend during that time in them Yeah,
we started boozing a lot around that.

Speaker 2 (46:13):
Time because we were home and board.

Speaker 1 (46:15):
I remember, you know, either making or you know, losing
thousands every day in my life for like six months.
But I remember, you know, hit me up one day
and again it's not funny to joke about alcohol too much,
but I remember, comm don't hit me up on time
he goes bro Like, how often do you go through
a handles of a handle of Tito's? How many did
you have just going through them?

Speaker 4 (46:36):
You know what?

Speaker 2 (46:36):
What was that? That weird party zoom thing was called
house party house part.

Speaker 1 (46:40):
I remember people were jming on a house party just
to like communicate on social media, and you're having drinks
and you just talking to Randos.

Speaker 2 (46:47):
It was a weird time.

Speaker 3 (46:48):
I think you guys were both in relationships when COVID started.
I was single at the time. I actually met Brenda
during COVID the second year of it.

Speaker 2 (46:57):
So how did you feel when you took your mask off?

Speaker 3 (47:02):
It was a surprise when we both took our masks off.
But dating and dating profiles in meeting people was interesting
at the time because you thought you would get ghosted
prior to COVID. You really got ghosted. As far as
actually meeting up with people during COVID, there were even
zoom dates and things that it was virtual dating almost
at the time, it was really strange.

Speaker 2 (47:22):
She gave it to me. What syphilis?

Speaker 11 (47:24):
No, the VID.

Speaker 1 (47:25):
All right, let's go to Chris and Arizona. We'll go
rapid Fire, then we'll go to Isaac Credt update. We'll
get back to that Ron Washington conversation, which, by the way,
the more I'm thinking about it, the more I'm confused.

Speaker 2 (47:35):
So I need your help. Chris in Arizona, what's up, bud?

Speaker 9 (47:39):
Hey, you guys led right into it with the whole
drinking thing. During COVID, my wife I have friends over
every Saturday night, and she's not too fond of it
from time to time, but during COVID she's considered high risk,
so she didn't want us hanging out. So first Saturday,
when COVID really hit, my buddy pulled up in his

(47:59):
truck and on the tailgate. We made sure we were
six feet apart, but we still got it done.

Speaker 2 (48:03):
Yea. I remember people, do you remember?

Speaker 1 (48:04):
Like kids would have drive by birthday parties, like for
little kids, like their pals would like go buy the
house like hey, or like grandparents would talk to their
kids great kids were.

Speaker 4 (48:14):
Like a dude.

Speaker 1 (48:15):
So again, we're trying to have fun with this having
the conversation. I'm like, this sucks. You know how difficult
co parenting was.

Speaker 3 (48:21):
Okay, here's a positive we had, Especially if you're in
a major city with gridlock traffic. That is the best
time I ever have driven my car in southern Califoria.

Speaker 2 (48:31):
Oh, I'll give you.

Speaker 1 (48:34):
I'll give you positive. I told you we were renovating
our house in Los Angeles. I was flying tune from
Texas every two weeks, forty nine dollars one way, and
I was like one of eight people on the plane.
It was ridiculous. And it wouldn't be a show if
I didn't bring up Covino's ex wife once in a while, right,
because I love to point that out. I always felt
bad for him. I'll say it so you don't have to.

(48:55):
Some people were more cautious than others. Every time he
had his daughter, he required like a negative test when
he gave his daughter back.

Speaker 2 (49:03):
Yeah, it was Yeah, let's talk about the nasal swabs.

Speaker 1 (49:07):
Would I would call Coveno like, yo, bro, where are
you He's like, would have met an urgent care.

Speaker 2 (49:12):
I'm like, why he goes? I gotta get my daughter
like every week.

Speaker 1 (49:15):
Well, because my ex has little ones, didn't want to
bring anything compromise back.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
To her every time.

Speaker 3 (49:20):
Every time Coveno we entered the network doors. Here we
took our temperature. There was like a workstation.

Speaker 2 (49:25):
It was weird. Iowa, Sam kept bending over is.

Speaker 5 (49:30):
This where you put it? And remember we had to
get it. If we had to get a COVID test,
though we had to like go to some some like uh,
you know, a clinic or something. We could get one
at home.

Speaker 3 (49:40):
How about the shady urgent cares who ripped all of
us off by charging so much money for those tests.
We saw those urgent cares go out of business once
people didn't need the tests. Anyone, can I tell you
this is so east coast of me. I had a
COVID guy early on when tests were hard to get.
I had a guy like someone, a guy, a guy

(50:00):
that would be like, y'all hundol like. I had a
guy that if you gave him one hundred bucks, he
had a test like so it was a weird time dude. Again,
to be honest, I'm almost regretting we're reminiscing, but you
know what, it was five years ago timestamp. Honestly, check
this out because this will mind f you a little
bit in a in a weird way but also a

(50:21):
nice way. If you do search in your gallery, go
to your gallery and you search March twenty twenty, you
could see right where you were before this happened, and
right where you were right around this time.

Speaker 2 (50:30):
You're like, oh my goodness.

Speaker 5 (50:32):
I went to a I went to a Bond Scott
tribute night and Bill Burr was one of the acts,
doing like a twenty minute stand up bit and it
was all like a CDC covers and that was like
while COVID was sort of drifting out into the masses
and someone made a joke. They're like, I have COVID
right now, and Bill Burr was like, get out of here.

Speaker 2 (50:52):
So it was crazy. We all felt kind of weird
to be there, but we're like, let's do this. Yeah,
Rapid Fire Patrick in Spokane, what's up man, what's up?

Speaker 4 (51:00):
Boys? Yeah? It was crazy times back then. We went
to a concert up in Canada. I love up here
in Spokane right before it and things were getting weird
and on our way back, like everything got shut down,
and I just wanted to give a shout out to
the people that didn't get shut down. I worked for
a very large package disretribution company, not the Brown one,

(51:21):
but the other one.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
Yeah, and.

Speaker 4 (51:25):
Yeah, we didn't got shut down. We got slammed. Dude.
We got smoke during that time. So, you know, shout
out to all the hard workers.

Speaker 1 (51:31):
You know. We talked about if you want to forget
all the negative or the positive, but if you want
to talk about the things that changed in your life.
We talked about how there are people that started working
from home even half the time that still work from
home that never.

Speaker 2 (51:44):
Was essentials and non essential. Yeah, that's right, Like the
people there's so many.

Speaker 1 (51:47):
People that went to an office every day of their life,
and from covid on they're like, yeah, I work from
home half the time, So there are We had never
used the word quarantine as much like in this past
two weeks, five years ago, then right now.

Speaker 2 (51:59):
You remember club Quarantine.

Speaker 1 (52:01):
Quarantino, Covinos, what they call that. Ohio, Nick, you're on
what's up?

Speaker 4 (52:05):
Many, It's up guys, Hey.

Speaker 7 (52:07):
Bud Man, Uh, I kind of want to approach the
angle here and you've danced around that a little bit.
But I kind of appreciate you guys in there and
let me elaborate. But man, the things was so crazy,
like you couldn't do anything the way you did it before.
And my whole life i've worked, I've been a sports fan,

(52:27):
and the one thing that's kind of always been the
same is an hour and a half of Ben Mallor
on the way to work in the morning, an hour
and a half of Cavino and Rich in the evening.
And everything that was on media was like fear mongering
and this and that. But man, every morning you guys
were there, you know, and it was just it was normal.
It made stuff feel normal. It made it feel like

(52:48):
it would eventually go back to normal.

Speaker 1 (52:49):
So you know, out on the back in the in
the like here, it's it's it's very eye rolly to say,
but I sort of felt proud that Cavino and I
never missed one day like COVID happened and we're like,
all right, we'll just we were each others. Uh, what
do you call it when you h what do they
call the people close to you like your h No,
not your inner circle? Remember it was like you not
the people you quarantined with. Remember, like your inner circle people,

(53:10):
there were like a stupid name for it, like you're whatever.

Speaker 2 (53:13):
It was, Oh there was a term. I forgot it?

Speaker 10 (53:15):
Well was it?

Speaker 1 (53:16):
There was like a term for like the people in
your circle, like like they're in my blank and it
was like the people that you were around without a mask, like, oh, no,
they're in my whatever. Did we call ourselves woo tang? Yeah, yeah,
we were clients, you know, just for optics. You want
to hear something ridiculous, and I get it. Maybe we
were working at serious extem at the time. We worked
together every day. Would you believe on video they made

(53:40):
us go on different cameras even though we were in
the same room because they didn't want anyone to think
we were in the same room. And I'm like and
I was like, dude, we lived down the block from
each other and we're best buds. We're still hanging out,
and they're like, yeah, yeah, but for perception reasons like
opting two cameras.

Speaker 2 (53:57):
Yeah, that's how it was.

Speaker 3 (54:00):
That was my introduction to you guys. The very first
time I saw you two working together was during COVID
and I got it in. The caller hit on it
a little bit. But I got to give props to
all the tech producers, the executive producers here, the editors
here here.

Speaker 2 (54:13):
The whole time.

Speaker 3 (54:13):
They gave us FEMA cards because the network's in charge
of EAS alerts for the country and stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (54:19):
So were we were considered essential workers.

Speaker 3 (54:23):
We did not miss a shift, We could not miss
a day, and you know, hopefully you didn't get sick.
Thank goodness. I didn't come down with COVID during that stretch.
But we all had to be here physically in the
network while all the hosts were from their home on
you know, the satellite feed. Hey, hey, yay, Yeah, it
was crazy. Push through it all. Two quickies.

Speaker 1 (54:44):
We'll go to Isaac and we'll get back to our
Ron Washington hypothetical.

Speaker 2 (54:48):
What's up, Johnny boy, Virginia beachw it's up? Man? Hey, Hey,
he's going guys, what's up, buddy?

Speaker 10 (54:53):
I doing good.

Speaker 9 (54:55):
I had heard that Las Vegas had a problem. They
couldn't lock the doors because those doors were never.

Speaker 4 (55:00):
Made with locks.

Speaker 2 (55:02):
You know, that's that's like seven.

Speaker 1 (55:03):
There isn't a joke like seven Eleven's don't have locks
on their doors because they're open twenty four hours.

Speaker 2 (55:07):
You know, it's uh.

Speaker 1 (55:09):
I do remember Vegas going to Vegas soon after COVID.
I remember they had the shields up between you and
the dealer.

Speaker 2 (55:15):
How weird that was? Can we sneeze guard?

Speaker 1 (55:18):
During the During the break, Cavino was saying, how it's
it's almost like anxiety ridden to have this conversation because
we've come you know, we're sort of like, you know,
back to normal in society, but really sort of sea
blocked a lot of people's lives and relationships and work
and a lot of stuff. So even talking about it sucks.

Speaker 2 (55:34):
It just going to make you appreciate how things are
right now. Yeah, resilient we are.

Speaker 1 (55:39):
Yes, things bad things happen, And you know, I don't
care about your personal take on COVID because we all
have our own thoughts.

Speaker 2 (55:44):
But to think here we are back to back to normal, right.

Speaker 5 (55:47):
I won't say this. Those stimulus checks we got could
have been like doubled. They didn't quite go far enough,
especially for people who are trying to get by. You're
like you still you find it about your stimy check.
Here's like fifteen hundred dollars, but like it was like
maybe inflation was starting to take a hold or something.

Speaker 2 (56:01):
But I'm like this uh disappeared. This money went bye
bye in like a second. We'll take a little more money,
one more to wrap it up. Who do we got?
Speaking of Vegas and Vegas yeah, good.

Speaker 13 (56:14):
Things come to use too way. So things I remember
most about COVID I started Facebook gambling, like pool tabs
and these being do groups and all different types of
like random gambling that people would just be hosting online
and these chat rooms on TikTok and everything else. But
then also I got pregnant during that lockdown and son

(56:41):
during lockdown. Yeah, so so distancing didn't work out. But
it was like my first kid, and it was terrible
because of a quarantine situation, Like I had to go
to all my appointments alone, even for delivery, like my
doctor at the hospital. I was originally going to go
to Saint Rose and like they were allowing even the

(57:01):
fops come in for deliveries, like seriously a loan.

Speaker 4 (57:03):
Yeah, it was.

Speaker 1 (57:05):
It was a sucky time to be a pregnant mom. Hey,
you know what you maybe think of something because you
said Vegas and it would only be coveno on Rich
Esque to end this conversation on a smutty note, but
what happened to strippers during COVID? They started only fans exactly,
strippers into only fans because all these young women that

(57:26):
were making their money lap dancing and touching and grinding
and gropey that was no longer on the table. Hamdians
everybody had a poply fans. Yep, Comedians started podcasts exactly
like it. You know, think about that two layers and
we'll move on. Just remind yourself COVID comedians podcasting strippers
only fans. Bo Burnham did a special from home if

(57:48):
you remember that, so again five years ago. If you
want to chime in on your memories, hit us up
at Covino and Rich and when we get back again
we continue with this Ron Washington story. Maybe talk a
little Bronnie, Isaac cling Cron. What's doing in the world
of sports, my friend?

Speaker 6 (58:04):
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Speaker 2 (58:13):
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Speaker 1 (58:24):
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(58:45):
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with us. You know, you should be happy. I see
her in the anchor studio Monte Belanos. I see a
lot of stadiums are offering some more vegan options in
the food department.

Speaker 2 (59:05):
Yeah, I mean it is nice to see, but you know,
I really am going to indulge in. Like the desserts
and the suites aren't necessarily vegan.

Speaker 1 (59:14):
You're not gonna have the you're not gonna have a
sixty You're not gonna have a sixteen inch sausage at
Dodger Stadium.

Speaker 2 (59:19):
Is it vegan or vegetarian?

Speaker 13 (59:21):
I try it.

Speaker 7 (59:22):
I do.

Speaker 2 (59:22):
I've seen the bat that fills up with popcorn that
I want.

Speaker 1 (59:25):
That's that's a big trend and Kevin and I were
going to discuss that a little more and over promise
that starts stadium fights or not bats filled.

Speaker 5 (59:33):
Up with you can't hurt each you know what? Like
at Iowa Cubs games, triple at Cubs you can get
a beer bat. I think every food and drink should
be served out of a bat. The beer bats just
like this long beer.

Speaker 2 (59:44):
You can drink well, but then you can't put it down.
Dodger Stadium has a beer a beer bat, but you
can't put it down.

Speaker 5 (59:49):
Isn't it like a flat portion at the bottom where
you can kind of bounce it? No, not really, bummer,
how about someone invent that?

Speaker 11 (59:55):
Well?

Speaker 1 (59:55):
Remember to join us on over promised Fox Sports Radios
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It's a new feature again Fox Sports Radio. On the
iHeartRadio app, look for Covino and Rich and thank you
guys for hanging out with us. Now we gotta wrap
it up with Ron Washington again. I think it's a
great idea, Rich, because like I said, it's it's a

(01:00:18):
no fail experiment. If they do terrible, it's not because
they didn't have their cell phones, and you have to
think about how much of a distraction it is, especially
when you're trying to make a change, right you're trying
to do something different, like when players are being hit
up by their wife east throughout the day and baby
Mama drama and they're distracted with social media. You know

(01:00:39):
he's there trying to win, like take away the distractions
for a little while. So the least you could do
if you're serious about winning when you're getting paid that
much money.

Speaker 2 (01:00:47):
I get you with kids.

Speaker 1 (01:00:49):
I said this to my wife yesterday. Anytime my son
or daughter are like, hey, dad, can you know do
ground balls outside? Or hey do you want to can
we ride bikes or do something, I'm always gonna say yes,
because if they're choosing that over their iPad, you'd be
a terrible parent if you're like, no, no, I can't go.
Do you You made me think of one thing though,
you know, I do think it's a good idea for
Ron Washington to take the phones away so that chemistry

(01:01:12):
could build, relationships could build, we can communicate as a team.
But if you are a parent, you never want to
be that far away from your phone in case they
need you for an emergency, so that that is problematic.
I never want to be too far away from my
phone my battery dies. My first concern is what if
my daughter's trying to get a hold of me? So
how do you balance that? That would be something I'd be,

(01:01:32):
you know, concerned about. I think Mike Trout and other
team leaders have been put in charge of, you know,
administering fines and stuff like that. Hey, maybe maybe there's
a how about this? There's a clubhouse almost like a batphone,
like the hotline. I think there actually is where it's like, hey, listen, wives, girlfriends, others, like, hey,
if there's an emergency, there's someone on hands at all times.

Speaker 3 (01:01:53):
The famous Joe Montana story where he'd call out to
from all the different stadiums.

Speaker 1 (01:01:58):
And by the way, there's a related story today where
Ronnie James, who's probably getting some playing time tonight against
the Bucks. Ronnie James said that he sees and reads
and hears all the criticisms. He sees it all and
it sort of motivates him. But how about for the
people that gets in their walls and gets in their head,
You think they really need that when they're trying to

(01:02:18):
play their best before a big game. I don't think
it's that productive for these players. The reason I'm torn
on this cave, you know, is that when you hear
stories of school saying no phones, I think that's a
great idea when you say hey to your kids, rather
go outside and play wiffleball or go on their iPads.

Speaker 2 (01:02:34):
Of course whiffleball ten out of ten times. I'm just saying.

Speaker 1 (01:02:36):
These are grown men with wives, girlfriends, Gumaud's side girls, kids, moms,
aging parents. I just feel like taking away a grown
man's phone is like, come on, imagine something like Cavino,
hand it over, you beat.

Speaker 2 (01:02:49):
You tell them to beat it.

Speaker 1 (01:02:50):
School, the workplace, dinner, you know this is the workplace. Yeah,
I get it right. And if it's clearly it's problematic too.
These guys are spending more time on their phone than
they are building chemistry, well, getting to know each other.
If the Angels aren't twenty five games under five hundred,
will consider it a victory.

Speaker 2 (01:03:09):
What do you think?

Speaker 4 (01:03:09):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:03:09):
Hey, you gotta upload Ron Washington for trying to do
something different and Cove you brought up the Lakers besides
the tourney Lakers Bucks no Luca, no, lebron Of course,
Austin Reeves is now hurt, Finney Smith is hurt, Vanderbilt
is hurt, so is Dalton.

Speaker 3 (01:03:23):
Connect gonna go for forty tonight and Bronnie will definitely
get some playing it is tonight.

Speaker 1 (01:03:27):
Let's honestly prop bet is tonight Bronnie's highest point total
ever should be. I mean, you just named like five
players that had put up points. So unless they plan
on scoring sixty five points, maybe Bronnie scores five to ten.
People will mess around and get a triple double. It's
gonna be cool to see. Definitely reason to watch tonight
for sure. Well, hey, have a great Thursday night. Over

(01:03:49):
Promised is up next our bonus podcast, and then tomorrow
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all the support at coviing on Rich. We'll post a
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Right a rivea there you baby, see you in the
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Speaker 2 (01:04:03):
Good back later