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C&R have fun debating what Michael Jordan's role will be for NBA on NBC! There's some Breaking NFL News that gets rich worked up. Voice-over extraordinaire Jim Fagan may be dead, but NBC/AI are making sure that his voice is not! Is it awesome, odd, or the future?! 'LAST ONE STANDING' is a full-on battle! Plus, what do the Pope & Antonio Brown have in common?

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
It was a good weekend, Happy Mother's Day, hopefully, like
you said, you enjoyed your NBA. Now the NBA in
the news on a Monday, and it has nothing really
to do with the playoffs, you would think, Man, is
it about how the Knicks might just give this series
right back to the Celtics today?

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Is it about can.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
The Warriors just hold on without Steph until he recovers? No,
the story is about Michael Jordan, and the story is
about NBC. I couldn't believe my eyes when I read
the story, so I was like, what it just seems
so weird, And that's really what we're asking what? Who?

Speaker 3 (00:55):
Where?

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Why?

Speaker 1 (00:56):
We're actually asking more of the why who. Now I'm
not gonna plain who is everybody knows who is Michael Jordan,
or as they're calling now special contributor for NBA on
NBC and Peacocks starting next year twenty twenty six. Special
contributors the most vague stuff you could say that way,

(01:17):
they could figure it out later. Special contributor could mean
one time he does a sit down interview, or special
contributor can mean he's part of the weekly coverage or analysis, right,
And that would be crazy because we don't know Michael
Jordan on that level. That was part of the reason
why we loved him so much. There was so much
mystique around the guy. Like you referenced earlier Rich on

(01:39):
our Patreon show. Yeah, we know how he felt about
certain players like Kobe and you know Lebron. He never
gave Lebron really the love that I think Lebron wanted
from him. We know how he feels here and there,
but as far as game to game, day to day analysis,
we never got that sort of insight from a Michael Jordan.
So that's like a weird place to see him. And
then you have to ask yourself, well, he doesn't need

(02:01):
the money, so why there's something cool about his mystique.
Now He's putting himself out there to be speculated upon,
much like Tom Brady in the Booth. You know, it's like,
did Tom really need that? Well, there's life after sports
or life after the field and on the court. My
thinking is simply, Michael Jordan, we saw the last dance

(02:23):
during COVID, and what I think struck people was, Oh, wow,
he's a competitive maniac.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yeah wow, Michael, we don't want to know.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
We heard and we could assume, but we never heard
those backstories like he's competing with the security guy. Yeah
you heard the stories, but not like the full stories, right,
and you know the whole joke of him looking at
the iPad. I took that seriously, Michael Jordan. We learned
a lot more about him through a documentary, because you're right,
there is a mystique and a mystery, oddly enough about
the most popular sports icon of our lifetime.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
So the fact that he's going to be doing anything.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
With coverage, Like we know Shaq and Barkley, they like
to bust each other's they make.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Fun of each other.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yet they mock the game now and that's a little counterproductive.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Ernie trying to be like me.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
That whole crew is fantastic, right, Ernie Kenny, You got
the broadcasting chops, sha and Charles, But what does a
guy like Michael Jordan bring to the table, which is
where we open it up to you.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
What do you want to see? And by the way
Michael Jordan doing.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
Does he start cutting in like the other old heads,
like the Barkleys and Shacks of the world where they're
just dumping on these younger dudes. Because that might be
a bad look too, that might be something we don't
want to see from Michael Jordan. Or are you interested
in his insight? I am, but I don't know if
that's what we're gonna get. But now an interviewer like
you reference counter productive Camino of Michael Jordan just hops

(03:50):
on NBC and starts talking about load management and soft
players and all, because that's what the league doesn't need.
They don't need another veteran Hall of Famer dumping on
the league. So has Jordan become like the NBC cheerleader,
right right right? You know, really interesting stuff? Michael Jordan
breaking news this morning. I was like what, and then
your mind thinks the worst and then you read the

(04:11):
little story and you're like special contributor, what does that
even mean? Contributor? Okay, I can meet a wide variety
of things, and he's a special guy. So he's special
contributor coming next season for the NBA. A brand like
his and a name like his can only help the league.
But again, I think the biggest question is why maybe

(04:32):
only you could for only so many decades he jus
bored and that's it and be like rich and awesome,
Like what if Michael Jordan's like I could go take
my private jet to play golf anywhere, you know, I
could just sit back and watch my billions. Yeah, but
in today's world, right accumulating when you're putting yourself out
there and you're putting your opinions out there, and it's
a two way street of social media, Like he is

(04:54):
setting himself up for extra criticism and back and forth
with these players, and he may be a exposed with
his opinions and his thoughts where he never was before.
And that's why he maintained a level of awesomeness in
our minds. Is we didn't know all about Michael Jordan.

Speaker 4 (05:09):
Well, he does keep himself busy with NASCAR. He's the
co owner of a team playing it there. Yeah, and
he's there at the garage throughout the week and then
of course on race days he's there with the team,
so he's kept himself competitive with that sport. So it
would surprise me if he has a full time role
with NBC.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Maybe if you remove yourself from something long enough, you
could come back in with a fresh set of eyes.
Maybe up until recently, Michael still feels like I'm too
close to the game, I'm too connected. I played with
players that are still playing or you know, I mean
that's ended a little while now, but still maybe maybe
that was sort of.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
Bounced just time.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
Yeah, I'm curious to see, you know, what inspired him
because here's the few factors. He can't be the money,
right you would assume camp between racing stuff and his
branding stuff Nike and everything else, can't be the money
that enticed him.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
So the why is.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
Most likely because he feels that he has something that
we want to see, some insight that is intriguing, interviewing
skills that we never thought about. Maybe, I mean, does
he have something just straight bored him? Like, like Rich said,
the time is right, like he's just bored in his time.
To get back to what really defines Michael Jordan, which
is basketball. He said something a few minutes ago to Danny,

(06:28):
and it's a really interesting point. That's I think a
big factor would I say, he said, Michael Jordan has
never lived in a world where what he says and
does is is open for a back and forth and
a criticism. Michael Jordan did what he did. Who's going
to question him? A Chicago reporter. Yeah, we had like
a young player be like, man, Michael, shut up, man,

(06:49):
he doesn't know what he's talking about. There's there's never
been a world where Michael Jordan after a while had
to answer it to anyone, because the reporters all looked
at him as like an icon.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
You know, he he left, he.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
Won three in a row, left, came back, won three
in a row, and even when he was a wizard,
there was a sense of like he's doing it like
the good of the league.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Like what a guy.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
By the way, he's so revered and he's so special,
special contributor. Michael Jordan to get criticism from Shaq and Barkley,
it's expected at this point, right, we all know that
Shack and Barkley's not kissing anyone's ass, But imagine growing
up idolizing Michael Jordan, and now he's the guy dumping
on your game.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
It's gonna sting.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
What if Michael takes a liking and throws like ridiculous
props to someone in particular, like an Anthony Edwards, like
it's an or maybe he's like you guys might not
see yet, but Michael Jordan here when Ben Yama is
gonna win six or more like I did, like.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
He could very well throw some heavy weight.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
Let me ask you behind someone as a broadcaster, you know,
has he found his new basketball or is he gonna
be more of a baseball guy? You think he's'd be
great or you think he's gonna be I struggling a
little bit or are we looking way too into it
because special contributor means he's just doing some minor stuff.

Speaker 4 (08:01):
To me, this feels like NBC just trying to use
his name lean into the nostalgia of what they were
known for when we were kids, especially with the Ai
story We're going to get to and everything. That's what
and the John Tesh Yeah, that's what I took away
from it is that they want to flash us back
and bring that feeling.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
Back everything with NBA and NBC. AH take marketing. It's
just just a marketing tickles. The nostalgia wavos. It really
does like tickles your fancy. Yeah, but you don't get
a Michael Jordan unless he wants to do it.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
Great move for the NBA, but there's got to be
great incentive for this dude.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
He has too much to lose.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
I mean, we're getting the return of Round Ball Rock,
which is maybe the best sports theme ever you can
play the sn I want, I want basketball. Let's do
that one, Sam, why not?

Speaker 2 (08:51):
That's a good one, good basketball game.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
Maybe lean into this one? Are the lyrics?

Speaker 3 (09:08):
Bring it back?

Speaker 2 (09:09):
Round Ball Rock.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
What's your first reaction when you saw the breaking news
Michael Jordan? Like shock, like oh wow, that's or interest
or why? Or honestly, my first thought was why because
again he's he's a billionaire, his brand, his chilling, he's
doing what he wants. He could you know, if Michael
Jordan wants to buy a racing company or whatever he

(09:32):
wants to do. Here, here's the thing here, here's what
I thought, and I want to hear what dB things too.
I thought to myself, Michael Jordan lived and played in
the time where he got away with so much, and
yet we still loved him because we didn't know all
the backstories, right, We didn't know, and he survived the
world without social media, so he just slid by. It's
like our parents in a way, you know how they

(09:53):
Dad never checked in. He was probably at the Newdy bar,
but he just grew up in that time and we
loved him for it. Anyway, Dad got home late because
he was at the new Michael Jordan, we don't know
what he was up to. We don't know what he
was thinking, and he got away in a time where
it didn't exist. And Michael Jordan's so big Cavino that
I feel like we all the collective us think that

(10:14):
Michael Jordan's probably too good for social media? Right, So
why enter a world now where I don't know if
he has the equipment to survive?

Speaker 2 (10:22):
Like, does he have the.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
Social media skills to combat with today's annoying person? Does
he want to expose himself in this way set himself
up for again media scrutiny of today. He got away
with it Scott Free back then, Like now he's putting
himself out there to be exposed with anything he does
or says. Is that really worth it? And is there
anyone that doesn't look at the different world and he's

(10:45):
so loved, like he's a different world. He's entering that
social media world is brutal.

Speaker 5 (10:50):
I don't hate Michael Jordan, but I definitely did not
cheer for him in the Bulls in the nineties ques,
you know, like in that case. I don't think that
there's any way that he is exposed in this scenario
to get him to do this. They're not going to say, Michael,
how do you think pacers Calves sorts out? I just
I don't think that's not his not now, it's not

(11:11):
his wheelhouse.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
Yeah, that's so. Then what here?

Speaker 1 (11:14):
His first interview is with Chicago Born the Pope, Michael
sits down with the Pope.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
Michael sits down with Maybe it's like an interviewing.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
Special contributor, is the story for NBA on NBC.

Speaker 5 (11:28):
Yeah, this isn't Charles Barkley sitting on the desk of
inside the NBA. People think that that's so, this is
special contributor. So everything is going to be packaged. Also,
when you look at the last dance, it was so
heavily slanted towards Jordan. Jordan had the last word and everything,
And I think my opinion of why he's doing this,
is he still wants his last word. We're at a

(11:50):
point where Lebron's career is coming to an end. We
are also at a point where we're getting just further
and further away from Michael Jordan's career as it is,
and I think that he's still wants that voice for
his career and his generation and that final, you know,
final word. He didn't do the Last Dance to have
people tarnish his legacy. He did it to try to

(12:10):
increase the legacy and show everybody what he was all
about to a generation that wasn't familiar with what he accomplished.
I would have to think that that would be the
reason why he does something like this.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
Yeah, and he has a team of brand people I'm
sure that are steering the ship and correct advice on
what's great for the brand for the future.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
Yeah, that's a great point.

Speaker 5 (12:29):
There's gonna be no who do you think Brooklyn's gonna
take with a sixth pick like that? Is that is
not why you have Michael Jordan there at unless any point.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
Unless he records a version of everything and then they
do a post game and it looks like he just
knows everything Michael, Let's see who Mike liked, the Knicks
or Celtics. Well, I'll tell you, I feel like Game
four Celtics probably buy six Celtics by six.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
You knows you're familiar with this in radio.

Speaker 6 (12:54):
Rich, people do this in radio to make sure they
have their their butts covered from Monday.

Speaker 4 (12:59):
Yeah, maybe their version of Tony Romo. You can just
call things before they happen, exactly.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
Imagine he's just or maybe, you know, speaking of marketing
and things like that. In today's world, we've seen guys
like Tom Brady, who's also a goat, pivot to a
guy that we didn't really know a whole lot about,
like to a guy with a lot of personality to share.
Like we just started to learn about Tom Brady in
the past few years, Like really know about the guy,

(13:26):
right because he was under Belichick's wig and they kept
business business. We didn't know about Tom Brady the guy.
Maybe he's seen the goodest stun for a guy like
Tom Brady and he feels he has something to add.
But not everybody's kind in this world to social media man,
and you said it, Rich, Michael Jordan's such a beloved
hero of ours that it'd be interesting to see people

(13:47):
hating on him because of a misstep he may have
or something he says or his opinion. Then that might
not be the case at all. Perhaps Dan Byer's right,
that's not what we're going to get from the situation.
If I were Michael Jordan, I would go around telling
people today that Nike's up ten percent today, not because
of the tariffs, but because of this announcement, because I
just looked at Nike stock and I'm like, man, that's right.
The tariff, yes, but yes, you don't know, you don't

(14:09):
think that's kind of part of it. Because when I
think Nike, I think Jordan Nike. He's one of the
top three brands that will benefit from tariff's.

Speaker 4 (14:15):
To DB's point, if it's to protect his legacy and
his era of basketball, bring back a mad with shod
and they could do like a throwback Thursday type thing
we do where they do like you know, the throwback
throw Jays.

Speaker 1 (14:26):
That backwards marketing or would you say Jordan's the exception
because you want to appeal to the younger guys.

Speaker 4 (14:31):
You do, but in this age nowadays, I mean, my
teenagers ask about Michael Jordan all the time and look
at his YouTube clips.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
And the ultimately connecting generations. Yeah, exactly if Michael Jordan
could bridge that gap of like father son or mother
daughter of mother son, watch any game like yeah Michael Jordan.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
Watch him, he's sitting down and you know.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
Or do you think NBC threw some money at him
that he couldn't reform?

Speaker 2 (14:54):
I don't think this.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
I don't think so either. I don't think Again, we're
just ask him the why man. Maybe the timing's right,
he said, you said, rich people get bored after a while.
He's done golfing.

Speaker 4 (15:02):
With the style NBC's presenting, how this looks like it's
gonna be, you know, a flashback to what they were
famous for. Then I feel like it's connecting the It's
a bridge, like you said, it's a bridge.

Speaker 7 (15:15):
Hey.

Speaker 1 (15:15):
And you may think we're over speculating, guys, that's fine,
but we've never really got to know Michael Jordan in
that way, and he's probably the biggest icon. He is
the biggest living sports icon period. No, is there another one,
you could say, a soccer star for debate, No, but
here in this country is Michael Jordan. No, I don't
care soccer star or not messy when you look at

(15:38):
the numbers, dude, social media, but that doesn't then you're
talking about social media numbers. Those are worldwide, worldwide impact.
I'm not saying Jordan doesn't have that, but I'm saying
dollar companies based on their silhouette on a shoe and
branding a clothing. That's a for debate again. And I'm
a Jordan guy myself, but I can't tell you if
Ronaldo is worldwide more pop, I don't know. I'd say

(16:01):
it's it's debatable. I think here's where I want to
go with this because there's another layer to the NBC
coming back to the NBA, coming back to NBC, and
it has to do with a dead guy. I'll explain
coming up. But I do want to hear from you
guys as far as what do you want to see
Michael Jordan do. Let's forget what he's really going to do.

(16:22):
What role when you heard this announcement? What would you,
deep down inside want to see Michael do? Would you
want to see Michael sit down and interview Jannis or
interview Anthony Edwards or some of the young players. I'd
want to see him. I'd want to see his insight
in true thoughts on the players in the game today.
Doubt we're gonna get Would you want to see him
goofing around at a roundtable or do you want to
see him more of an analyst or interviews? Like I said,

(16:47):
your thoughts. But right now, we've got some breaking NFL.

Speaker 8 (16:49):
News, breaking news from Fox Sports.

Speaker 5 (16:55):
I know this tickles Rich Davis's fancy, even though it's
not forty nine ers relate.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
We have more and what's the hell.

Speaker 6 (17:02):
You know where his fancy is? I'm not sure you
want to tickle it. We have more NFL schedule news.
Are you ready?

Speaker 2 (17:08):
I'm ready.

Speaker 1 (17:09):
I knew they were gonna lead it's its Wednesday, but
I was like, they're gonna leak everything in.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
The next two days. Yep.

Speaker 5 (17:13):
Fox is having an announcement which I'm about to tell
you we found out earlier today. It's Cowboys and Eagles
to start the season. Fox has chosen to tell America
that on Saturday, December twentieth, get ready for a doubleheader
on Fox featuring the Philadelphia Eagles at the Washington Commanders,
followed by the Green Bay Packers going down to Chicago

(17:37):
to face the Bears. Wow and This is interesting. This
is Saturday, December twentieth. This is week sixteen. This also
runs up against the first round of the college football
playoffs for the three games on that Saturday. So Fox
is saying, all right, college football Playoff, bring it on.
We're gonna give you Eagles, Commanders, Packers, Bears on Saturday.

Speaker 1 (18:00):
So we start two Eagles games, announce the right. Yes, correct,
So we know more about the Eagles than anybody so far. Yeah,
I mean as of Wednesday. I imagine Dani'll keep finding
out a little tidbits along the way. But Wednesday is
the official schedule release and every year, the teams, their
social media teams. Right now are probably trying to think
of the most clever, cool ways to release the schedule.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
I'll be honest, I love it. Every team comes up
with it.

Speaker 1 (18:23):
The first two games are tough, the Cowboys and the Commanders. Well,
those are two division games. They're guaranteed to play those teams.
The Commanders will be in December again, Week sixteen.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
December.

Speaker 6 (18:33):
Yes, we know that schedule watching tickles riches. Fancy, that's
why we should have played this instead of breaking news.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
The rich loves to look at the schedule. Game watch it.
I love it.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
So I mean we're gonna find out all on Wednesday,
and that's when guys could start planning and women could
start playing their little weekends away, their their family trips,
their bro weekend. So the schedule officially Wednesday. Thank you
DV for that update. A right, you know, we got
two Eagles their divisional games, so they're expected and they
were obvious, but both in big spots, the opening game
and of course leading into Christmas week.

Speaker 2 (19:08):
All right, a Saturday game.

Speaker 1 (19:10):
To compete, that's that's the thing. Competing with the college playoff.
You're gonna have to have a matchup Washington Philadelphia, all right?
Now coming up, what do you want Michael Jordan to
be doing at NBC? And another layer of this, dude,
that awesome fun fact Danny g hit us up with
three pairs of brothers have hit home runs on Mother's Day,

(19:33):
making their moms the proudest moms of all time.

Speaker 2 (19:36):
Do you know who they were? The Ripkins, the Conseco Twins, none,
the Uptons.

Speaker 1 (19:44):
They're all fantastic guesses, but brothers, though brothers.

Speaker 2 (19:48):
To each hit a home run on Mother's Day.

Speaker 1 (19:50):
In nineteen forty two, the Themaggioso dom and Joe who
I learned during a documentary that Joe DiMaggio he did
those Mister Coffee commercials and he had stopped drinking coffee,
but he did it because the guy bothered him so much.
And over the weekend they call him the marsh and
Jason Dominguez, twenty two years old for the New York Yankees,

(20:13):
hit three home runs in one game and he became
the youngest player since Joe D. Broke Joe D's record
for the Yankees to hit more than two home runs
in one game. So the DiMaggio's then in two. Okay,
the Giambies, the giamby No Jason and the late Jeremy
and Wilson and William Contreras did it yesterday, So yeah.

Speaker 2 (20:34):
Mama Contreras nice.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
So as as we celebrated Mother's Day yesterday, I can't
be the only guy that I wanted to give my
wife a little downtime, like, honey, just chill.

Speaker 2 (20:43):
You know, you do so much with the.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
Kids, but no matter how much Dad takes on, Like, yo, kids, coming, Dad,
We're gonna go to Starbucks and get mom coffee. Hey, kids,
let's go in the pool. They still like will run
to mom and bother her throughout the day. Like s
just their instinct. They're instant, like, Mom, wipe my mutt,
Mom I need No matter how bad you want to
give her a foot massage, you always end up rubbing
her cheeks. So that's just Yeah, moms never get a break.

(21:07):
So I mean, I couldn't be the only one that
was like, we're gonna give mom a break today, But
within every hour the kids bothered her about something because
it's mom.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
You know, the mom doesn't get a day off. I'm sorry, Yeah,
how it is?

Speaker 1 (21:17):
Love your mom's let's go to your phone calls about
Michael Jordan. Yes, Michael Jordan. It's not a lazy lebron
Jordan debate. It's I promise you, it's not that Jordan's
gonna be part of the NBA on NBC coverage as
what are they calling him again? The special contributor. But again,
I think Dan Byer hit the nail on the head

(21:38):
because we're asking, first and first mostly why.

Speaker 2 (21:43):
Why why Jordan? Yeah? Is it time?

Speaker 1 (21:45):
Why would Jordan want to do something like this? But
we're expecting some sort of crazy analysis and breakdown from
Michael Jordan. That's what we would want his opinions on
the game today, and I doubt we're gonna get that.
And then we suggested, well, maybe he does a quick
little interviews. It's like, well, do you see him as

(22:06):
a Bryant Gumbel type. I don't see that. I don't
see him as that role. And then Dan Byer off
the year said it's probably just gonna be some overly
produced little segment on Jordan's advice. Yeah, over the produced
where you can't really picture stuff brand him in a

(22:27):
negative light. Yeah, it's like low risk stuff, low risk stuff. Yeah,
I think that's probably it. And it's so disappointing because, yeah,
we'd want so much more from that. It'd be weird
to see. I'll give you the best analogy. I remembered
it during the break. I said to Dan Byer, there
was recently something with a lot of promise, and You're like,
that's it. Didn't They said Mariah Carey was gonna sing

(22:49):
all I Want for Christmas is You before one of
the NFL games during the holidays, and they kicked it
to a pre done video of her in a studio
doing it. I'm like, I thought you gonna be like
on the field or something. So don't get your hopes
up as well. So yeah, just sort of bending the
truth here for the headlines, like yeah, he's involved, but barely.

Speaker 2 (23:10):
Let's say hi to Tony and Virginia. It's uptown.

Speaker 3 (23:14):
Hello again, what's up, buddy? I think it would be
so cool he was the sideline reporter. Now it'll never happen,
but stagline up for the halftime interviews walking off the court.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
Yeah, like no one would give MJ the cold shoulder.
It just wouldn't be. It wouldn't happen.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
How would our boy, George Sodano feel about this? That's
a good cry. George can imagine to take away? See
that's the thing, these NBA guys coming. He take over
the all the broadcasting m's jobs. What ab actual broadcaster?

Speaker 2 (23:43):
Can you imagine the MJ?

Speaker 6 (23:44):
And like some oversized like Bill what's the word billis?
What's the billowy suit? And he's on the sideline the
microphone he'd looked, he look out of place.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
You know, it's interesting. Coavino burn up a good point.

Speaker 1 (23:55):
The last time we saw Jordan's suited up was like
in those nice oversized nineteen ninety two that he comes
out David Byrne like Carmelo, Yeah, over size ninetyes Carmelo
at the draft with the shoulder.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
Pads and everything.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
Yeah, I mean, I don't know if I've seen MJ
like a nice fitted current day suit. Uh, Georgia T
you're on a covine on Wretch's how buddy he.

Speaker 9 (24:17):
And r what's up? Fellas? Shout out Spotty on the
video and shout out big Apple if you know, you know.
I have a couple of things on Jordan. I agree
with Danny g about it being I don't want might
sound like a crazy take. I don't want it. I
want to keep the mystique alive. I want to as

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much as and I'm not a I'm not a I
wasn't born in I wasn't born early enough to see
him do his thing. But I saw the last dance,
and it's one of those things where when you saw it,
during the time that you saw it, it was still
during the run where the Lakers were still like, people
were like, oh man, Lebron's still doing something something something,
So again, competition mystique. Do we need more stories from

(25:00):
Jordan's Again, We've we've gone through the whole gambling incident,
his golfing, his other stuff. I'm not saying it's not
bad or you can't tell different iterations of it. I'm saying,
just like Tom Brady being the greatest football player of
all times and not doing well in uh, you know,
like broadcasting. It's one of those things where you could
be great at something, but you know you only could

(25:24):
be great at that white something.

Speaker 1 (25:26):
Yeah, I mean, Jordan's proven that he's not the best
owner in management, right, I mean that that didn't work
out well, but they will not expose him.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
Maybe we read the story.

Speaker 1 (25:34):
Maybe it's Belichick's Jordan that's doing this for the NBA.
Maybe it's that Jordan Jordan, or maybe they have a
show Jordan and Jordan. I'm here on the side and
here with Michael Jordan, and we're interviewing who.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
Are you exactly? Red? Oh you want to say, hid
us someone real cod? Well, then we'll go to Dan Buyer.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
Uh, mister, but remember the guy used to see at
the clothing what the guy that would.

Speaker 2 (25:59):
Come in last minute? What up?

Speaker 10 (26:00):
Mister?

Speaker 6 (26:00):
But yeah, I can't I can't believe he used to
make fun of my biggest medical condition.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
Well, you would always show up when the store was
closing in five minutes.

Speaker 9 (26:09):
Yeah, all these years, I reached back. I reached back.

Speaker 2 (26:15):
I reached back to grab my wallet over my shoulder
and my butt's so big.

Speaker 7 (26:18):
Now.

Speaker 4 (26:20):
If you don't know who mister but is, go back
to last Thursday's podcast.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
Yeah, we talked about people that came in as the
restaurant was closing or as the store was closing.

Speaker 2 (26:30):
There was always a guy.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
Named mister Butt who would have try on jeans and
stuff and I'd be like ready to leave the store,
like come on with this guy.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
He'd tear them too with his big butt.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
It was crazy and it's crazy even crazier to hear
from him after all these years. But let's go to
ear Palin ours Dan buy for an update, dB, what's
going on?

Speaker 2 (26:48):
Buddy? Guys, get some NFL stuff to you in just
a sec.

Speaker 5 (26:51):
But since we are talking hoops for the first time
in his career, Bucks Forward, Giannis and Teta Koompo may
be open to options outside of Milwaukee. A report from
ESPN says Giannis right now is being open minded. Was
the phrase that was used about where his best long
term spot is, whether it be in Milwaukee or with
another team with the thirty year old in Tetecumpo apparently

(27:13):
mulling those decisions.

Speaker 1 (27:19):
Now it's time for a tireract play of the day.
Pacers Cavs game got heated yesterday.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
Yeah, for Hogs was obviously two preepos with a flag
pole penalty two the Cleveland.

Speaker 11 (27:30):
Basketball You bring up a very valid point there.

Speaker 2 (27:35):
The momentum is all in Indiana's favor.

Speaker 11 (27:38):
What Matherin did there is simply unacceptable and inexcusable. It
just doesn't make any sense. And it's it's been But
flagrant two? Is he done? Did he say flagrant two? Yeah,
flagrant two is an ejection. He said flagrant penalty too?
Is that correct?

Speaker 3 (27:53):
Path?

Speaker 2 (27:54):
Is that right? Now? That's what he said, Yes, he's done.
He didn't say that Mathern was rejected. He didn't add
on that part. But that's the rule.

Speaker 11 (27:59):
And it looked like Joe sh is walking him out
of the arena as we speak, god an injection.

Speaker 1 (28:05):
Pacers went on, obviously to take that commanding three to
one lead over the number one seed Calves, obviously without
Donovan Mitchell. That's courtesy of the Pacers Radio network, and
that is our tire rect play Oh the Day Now again,
We're Covino and Rich at Covino and Rich eight seven
seven ninety nine on Fox DNYG says, we have another
call about Jordan.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
Is it Belichick Jordan or Michael Jordan? Michael Jordan? Hey,
what's up by to that? Gregan Connecticut? What's Greg?

Speaker 9 (28:32):
Hey? So just thinking I don't understand exactly what Jordan's
going to be doing, but he started making me think
about disastrous on air stuff.

Speaker 7 (28:41):
With I remember.

Speaker 9 (28:43):
Do you remember when Joe Namas got drunk and he
did his interview.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
Dragon, I want to kiss you. You know what, though, man,
maybe this is the new du print kiss you? Okay?

Speaker 1 (28:55):
When you think of the goats? Right, Tom Brady, he's
broadcasting now. He put fear aside, and ridicule and criticism aside.
He put his image and legacy aside and said, you
know what, I want people to know more about who
Tom Brady is. And I'm gonna take this chance, and
greatness comes with a risk. I'm gonna go out there
and do my thing. Tom Brady didn't have to do
all this stuff, and he did. Who else? Derek Jeters,

(29:16):
now an analyst. The thing is you put yourself out
there for criticism. We're not used to seeing Michael Jordan
in that vulnerable situation. Is that what he's gonna do
or not. They're saying special contributor, We don't know. I'll
say it's the first time we're gonna see Michael Jordan,
in my opinion, not in a bubble of some protection
or where we're all like, oh m me, unless overproduced

(29:36):
over hype nonsense, Whichard probably will be. But there's one
other note on the NBA on NBC, and then we're
gonna get to some NFL, some schedule stuff.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
We're gonna play a game.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
But they had a promo for the NBA going to NBC,
and I want you to take a listen to the
voice in the promo.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
Listen the NBA on NBC is bad.

Speaker 8 (30:03):
See you this October for the NBA season tip off.

Speaker 3 (30:09):
WHOA.

Speaker 1 (30:10):
Now that sounded really nostalgic, right because the voice there
is a gentleman by the name of Jim Fagan, big
time voiceover guy. Unfortunately he is no longer with us.
What they are using AI to put that together and
that is now a prime example of when you know

(30:31):
there's strikes and media tries to figure out who gets
the rights to someone's voice when they're gone because we've.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
Never really seen it.

Speaker 1 (30:38):
But to me, that hits your nostalgia bone a little bit.
It's kind of like perhaps tickles it's him.

Speaker 4 (30:44):
Yeah, well it does tickle, and they are gonna use
his voice for the upcoming season.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
That's insane.

Speaker 1 (30:49):
We said the one redeeming benefit of the fight two
weeks ago, fatal fury Garcia Tia Fimo Hani that card
in Times Square. One of the redeeming benefits was the
nostalgic comfort food known as Jim Lampley's voice.

Speaker 2 (31:06):
But he's still with us.

Speaker 1 (31:07):
He's still with That's what I'm saying though, But there's
something to be said about Yeah, that voice is familiar
with us, and we like the nostalgia and the feel
of it. They're just leaning into it in a different way,
you know. Respectfully, let me throw this out there. I
don't think there's a baseball fan on planet Earth that
doesn't admire the legacy and the greatness of Vin Scully.
He's broadcasted long enough that if they really wanted to,

(31:31):
there will be in the future, if not already, a
way where they could probably have him call game?

Speaker 2 (31:37):
Is that fair? Do we want to give you directions
on your Google maps?

Speaker 1 (31:40):
But Vin Scully could probably with the database of every
word he said in his life out they could do it?

Speaker 2 (31:46):
Should they would they?

Speaker 1 (31:48):
Is it wrong or awesome? And is this just step one?
On Mother's Day yesterday? This is a total dad victory.
So I have to share it because I feel like,
very rarely do us dad get this moment. At my
son's t ball game, after the game, all the boys
gave the moms a rose, and I took a picture

(32:09):
where my son and my wife both looked good, and
my wife's like, that's the best photo on I'm like,
that's your Mother's Day present?

Speaker 2 (32:15):
Oh my god. You needn't get yelled at because of
the angle or anything.

Speaker 1 (32:17):
No, I did the right angle. I got them both
smiling and looking good. And I was like, how often
does the dad get in a good picture? You didn't
get why did you post that ugly picture of me?

Speaker 2 (32:26):
In response?

Speaker 1 (32:27):
No matter how beautiful your wife or girlfriend is, guys
are always known to take the worst photos. Apparently I'm
the worst photographer that ever was, so man, yeah, that's
a great job.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
Myself in the back, I feel like that was Rich
got a good picture of his wife yesterday. Look at
that and shot look at that. Great job.

Speaker 1 (32:42):
But yeah, let's let's get back into this. I thought
about it, Rich, the NBA on NBC. We know the
Michael Jordan thing. We're past that. Now it's the intro.
You can play it against him. I mean it's only
ten seconds. They did a little teaser for the NBA
coming back to NBC, and the voice sounds familiar.

Speaker 8 (33:01):
The NBA on NBC is back see you this October
for the NBA season tip off.

Speaker 1 (33:13):
Oo, And that voice is familiar because it's the voice
of the late great Jim Fagan, who's no longer with us,
but he did the voice and he was the voiceover
guy for NBA and NBC. So, by the way, for
the record, he passed away in twenty seventeen. But you
recognize the voice and it becomes a question of awesome
or just odd.

Speaker 2 (33:34):
And or just the future. We got to get used
to it.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
Thought about it, Rich, and I feel like this is
a well, it's cool homage to him, if you want
to look at it that way, but it could be
a slippery slope for people in our industry. People make
a great living doing voiceovers and as a broadcaster myself.
That just shows how replaceable you are. And if AI's
able to do that, it's able to do what we

(33:59):
do in the future. I've heard it as far as
AI introducing songs on the radio and and that sort
of thing. No AI can come up with the dumb
analogies I come up with, so I feel safe.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
Hey, I don't know if a I could ever be
as dumb as Rich. But however, they're so dumb they're untouchable.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
No AI can come up with this stupidity. I have
my theory on this goes one way. What if they
come out with as artificial stupidity, then you're doomed.

Speaker 4 (34:24):
What if you ask AI to come up with a
dumb analogy like Rich Davis of Fox.

Speaker 1 (34:28):
Sure, Yeah, I'm sure I could do it. I have
my answer. My answer is simple. It depends on whether
or not it's a one off or as Mickey would
say in Rocky Now, if it's a one off, meaning
Derek Jeter has his last at bat at Yankee Stadium
and uh Shepherd, Bob Shepherd now a boudding number two

(34:50):
and they recording.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
That's a great point like honorary.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
Yeah, if it's if it's the first day of baseball
Dodger Stadium and they press play and it's Vince saying, yeah,
let's player Dodger race ball. I could see what's happening.
But that's a nice little tribute. Now, if you said
that's the permanent job every day, No, no, no, I
don't like testing the waters to see how people feel
about it. It's kind of weird. It's kind of odd.
I think I really do. And let me give you

(35:16):
another example. We've seen this in our industry before. We've
seen it before, where.

Speaker 2 (35:23):
Hosts.

Speaker 1 (35:24):
There was something called hosts, presenters, TV hosts, and TV presenters.
My ex was a TV presenter, a host, and she
started losing jobs for probably multiple reasons, but one of
them was that those jobs were going towards celebrities celebrity hosts,
so there was no need for an actual professional host

(35:44):
anymore because celebrities were more familiar and capable of doing this,
and people identified more with those celebrities. Now it seems
like we're gonna be losing jobs to these AI sort
of broadcasters. I believe that is probably what's next. Why
pay someone X amount when they could just pay the
likeness of the voice, and maybe it goes to the family.

(36:05):
I don't know how that works. There's a difference between
opinion and just a voice. Meaning podcasting and radio and
audio entertainment is as healthy as ever because people love opinions,
they love debate, they love storytelling.

Speaker 2 (36:18):
All that.

Speaker 1 (36:18):
I think that's safe. What I think is not, honestly
is like you said, voiceover work. I think if you're
introducing a product and it's just simply talking points, yea.
But what's our analogy? We always say, what's the saying
or the quote? When you say yes to something, you're
saying no to something else. You say yes to Jim
Fagan who passed away in twenty seventeen, You say no

(36:41):
to that young guy, like a dandy g with a
great voice, who could have easily done that made a
few bucks, and then you said his career on a
sweet trajectory. Do you feel How do you feel about
Hologram live performances, because Sharon Osborn recently said, and Ozzie's
still alive, by the way, she said, she open to
it in the future. That's an interesting one because I

(37:04):
feel like, but again, you're saying yes to hologram performances.
You're saying no to maybe seeing a band that's alive
that you could be contributing to.

Speaker 4 (37:12):
And by the way, Fagan's family will be compensated for
this because it is a partnership.

Speaker 1 (37:18):
That's pretty cool. Family and NBC that as broadcasters in likeness.
That's why actors went on strike, right, because they wanted
to protect their likeness and they were using their likeness.
The studios were just using their likeness for whatever. You
don't need to be You don't even need extras anymore.
They just use likeness.

Speaker 4 (37:32):
And we figure because something this big, like a network
this big, and something official like that, of course they
have to compensate the estate or the family. But how
many bootleg ais are we seeing? That is the real issue,
because nobody's going to see any money from the bootleg
that's true.

Speaker 2 (37:48):
And Mike, who runs this place, made another good point.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
Who if you would open up your trust and will
and redo the whole thing, Like why because what if
you were to die like Jim Fagan? Right, they use
your voice. You're making money. Now, who's getting that money
if you're not making it clear in your will. It's
just something to think about something we never really had
to think about before.

Speaker 2 (38:11):
Danny, if something happens to you, can you leave me
your voice? Yeah? That's can you leave someone?

Speaker 1 (38:16):
So I would say, if I want your Eyewa T
shirt you got it, the yellow and you wear like
once a week, then I want to walk the watermelons
all over it. They're both in the will very summary.
I could use that one. So your thoughts, hey, watermelons
or pineapples? What's on your I have two watermelon shirts,
so I want Yeah, I want those thanks.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
Upside down pineapples. What's going on there? What's going on
with those shirts?

Speaker 1 (38:39):
Interestingly enough, that's what's happening AI broadcasters and voiceovers. But
if you really want to do the math, I think
the NBC on NBA is doing a real good job.
Strategy is involved here with really bringing us the nostalgia
that maybe NBA needs. John Tesh, Basketball, Michael Jordan, Jim Fagan,

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all ties together.

Speaker 2 (39:06):
Let's say hi to David. You're on CONVENI on Rich
what's up, buddy?

Speaker 7 (39:11):
Hey, dude, just press on on the AI stuff here
at work.

Speaker 9 (39:15):
And we kind of consider the AI computer here at
work another idiot.

Speaker 7 (39:19):
So so AI sent for another EI for us.

Speaker 2 (39:22):
I love that.

Speaker 1 (39:22):
Yeah, I mean, listen, there's going to be uses for it,
and it's like anything, right, you try to resist it,
and you're gonna realize eventually, like, well, it's.

Speaker 2 (39:31):
Going to be a part of our lives.

Speaker 1 (39:32):
You just don't hope it replaces humans making money and
incomes and families, But unfortunately that will likely happen. What
happened when they made factories with machinery? Like, right, how
many humans like that?

Speaker 2 (39:43):
We did that?

Speaker 3 (39:44):
You know?

Speaker 6 (39:44):
That's why these actors unions are like, don't even get
your foot in the door with AI.

Speaker 2 (39:48):
We we don't.

Speaker 6 (39:49):
We do not want it in our industry whatsoever, because
once that foot is in the door, then it's going
to blow wide open.

Speaker 1 (39:54):
And Sam, I agree, I'm not I'm not pro I'm
not pro machine, you know, anti human. I'm just saying
what happens is the technology is there and we try
to resist it. But the inevitable ending is that some
of these things will happen. I just hope it doesn't
infiltrate the industries that affect us. Yes, selfishly, everyone doesn't
want it to affect them. But go back one hundred years,

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what did people say that worked on assembly lines and factories.

Speaker 2 (40:18):
Oh, these machines are gonna and they did. They put
them out of business.

Speaker 4 (40:22):
Does it have to happen though, just because things can
happen in the future, is it best for everybody? I mean,
people argue about the bringing back the Wooly Mammoth all
the time.

Speaker 2 (40:32):
Let me ask you this. Just because you can doesn't
mean you should.

Speaker 1 (40:35):
Let me ask you this, because I'm not saying it's
related completely.

Speaker 2 (40:37):
But do we lean into these things anyway?

Speaker 1 (40:42):
Like for me, oh man, I must be a jerk
because I opt for self checkout every time.

Speaker 2 (40:47):
I prefer to use the robot at the supermarket? Right,
do you stand in line? I hate?

Speaker 6 (40:53):
I hate self check out ninety ninety nine, sixteen ninety nine.

Speaker 4 (40:58):
I'm so spiteful with the self checkout that I do
one for them, one for me, one for them.

Speaker 2 (41:03):
One for me. That's called theeve. Not really because I'm
an employee at the store. Danny g work.

Speaker 1 (41:11):
I just I was on chat GPT as we speak
for real, and I said, what sort of analogy would
Rich Davis give about the dangers of AI broadcast?

Speaker 2 (41:20):
Do you want to hear what it says?

Speaker 1 (41:21):
This is according to chat GPT to see if you
could truly be replaced If Rich Davis, known for his witty,
relatable style, it's already wrong of shows like Cabino Ner
stop right there. We're able to give an analogy about
the dangers of AI broadcasters. It might sound something like
this hit it.

Speaker 10 (41:41):
Imagine.

Speaker 1 (41:42):
Imagine you're at your favorite neighborhood bar, That's what it says,
and the bartender knows your name, your drink, your favorite
sports team, and now suddenly he's replaced by a robot
that pours the perfect drink, but doesn't know your story,
doesn't laugh at your dumb jokes, and definitely doesn't remember
that time you cried after your team blew a three
to one lead. That's AI broadcasters, slick, efficient but totally soulless.

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He might follow it up with something tongue in cheek, like,
sure the AI won't call out sick or asked for
a raise, but it also won't give you that human
spark that makes radio feel like a conversation, not a script.
I don't like that I could even do what you
just read. Actually, I think I was better than anything
you came up with.

Speaker 10 (42:24):
Why though it apparently it takes what is it four
bottles of water?

Speaker 1 (42:27):
Every time you ask chat cheepte question, Rich woud have
said something, I'm so much more dumb than that.

Speaker 2 (42:31):
Like it's like a like a corn dog. You ever
have a corn dog? But what are you talking about
it with him? There's like mustard, and it's like mustard.
I have a corn dog, but you're not sure if
it's like a kind of cavino.

Speaker 4 (42:44):
There's a related story from last week where China has
opened the world's first AI powered hospital.

Speaker 2 (42:50):
I heard about that. Did you see that?

Speaker 4 (42:51):
Forty two robots and they're performing surgery on humans. I'm sorry,
I'm not letting a robot do a surgery.

Speaker 1 (43:00):
However, Danny, what if the statue after a year of
actual data that the survival rate in the robot hospital
was higher.

Speaker 2 (43:07):
It's flawless, like a flawless out.

Speaker 10 (43:10):
Every every futuristic movie, it's always done by computers.

Speaker 6 (43:13):
They always like computer aliens. There's always a malfunction. Always,
it's always Will Smith chasing the malfunction. And is there
there this thirsty go back to that water thing you
were saying, Oh yeah, apparently it takes like it's bad
for the environment.

Speaker 10 (43:29):
They're saying how bad chat GTT is the environment like
that coin hardest because of the power it takes to
answer these questions. The computers are are are using up
the moisture level.

Speaker 2 (43:41):
You made that up. Just stop us. I read it.

Speaker 1 (43:44):
Hey for Jim Fagan and his family. It's a cool story.
But there are other things to think about in the future. Man,
this is still weird. If you make love to a
robot a sex robot, is that cheating? Did we go
over that yet? Where's that? Only if you take your
socks off? Otherwise you're good?

Speaker 2 (44:04):
Okay.

Speaker 10 (44:05):
Just a single chat GPT conversation might use about half
a liter of water. I can't even quote well wow,
because it has to cool the system.

Speaker 6 (44:17):
Yeah, like it's cool and harvesting quote unquote harvesting cryptocurrency
takes uses a lot of energy and water. Keep these
machines cool and the electricity you need cool cool they're
very thirsty.

Speaker 2 (44:30):
I know nothing about what you're speaking of. Humans and
robots need holding down what in fact I own down?
Like the computers, I was the idiot.

Speaker 1 (44:37):
I was the idiotly that I was the idiot that
but crypto early just out of whim.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
But I know nothing about it. When you say mining crypto,
I'm like, I didn't even I used to do that.

Speaker 1 (44:46):
I think there are a lot of number of there's
a lot of chilange miners out there trying.

Speaker 2 (44:49):
To look they're stuck in a bitcoin mine.

Speaker 6 (44:52):
Yeah, but like I think there's a finite amount of
bitcoin out there now like there's there's no more. But
at the time they were actually quote unquote harvesting them.
Would do you think the Zoolanders were looking for?

Speaker 2 (45:02):
It's the files are in the computer. I think I
got the black lung.

Speaker 1 (45:07):
I found some and some ethereum looking for Sonana.

Speaker 2 (45:13):
That's very mad. That's what they were digging for. Alright.

Speaker 1 (45:17):
Hey, uh you know what, I think we could sum
it up by saying, NBA doing a pretty good job
of wrangling us back.

Speaker 2 (45:24):
NBA on NBC. You got Michael Jordan and the voiceover
guy that died.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
I think they're they're two for two so far basketball
and John Tesh Baker. Yeah, three for three. Baker in
Illinois wrapped this up, buddy.

Speaker 9 (45:37):
Hey, no, I just.

Speaker 7 (45:38):
Want to say about the AI and the robotics and
all that stuff. Uh, what you end up happening is
people are gonna say, hey, job, the job, broken.

Speaker 1 (45:50):
Job every time you lean toward that, And that's what
I'm thinking in the back of my brain.

Speaker 2 (45:55):
For sure they took a job.

Speaker 1 (45:58):
So funny, Hey, don't have to build walls around computers,
AI soundbites, AI promotions.

Speaker 2 (46:05):
All right, all right, well, hey, two things I want
to do coming up.

Speaker 1 (46:08):
There's a there's an Antonio Brown story in the news,
and this is this is something a I can't do.

Speaker 2 (46:14):
How are Antonio Brown and the Pope alike? Oh? What, Spotty?
I know you were hard at work.

Speaker 1 (46:24):
Details Soon enough, we have our big Kavin On rich
Party June twentieth to the twenty second in Vegas.

Speaker 2 (46:30):
Everybody's invited. You know it's gonna be a big deal.

Speaker 1 (46:33):
But we're you know, we're working out like pool parties,
live broadcasts, like a can't wait, like a big party, nights,
all the details on how you could get in again
a pool party, a broadcast, a night, maybe a karaoke night.
We're working out all these fun details. So just a
lot of fun where the show that loves to hang
with the people that support us. So yo, come hang

(46:54):
with Kevin on Richie will not be disappointed at say,
come to the karaoke night. Maybe you'll get many Pakia
there because he loves it. But he's fighting Mario Barrios.

Speaker 2 (47:04):
Now I thought he was. He's not done.

Speaker 1 (47:06):
No, no, many pac Man Pokio. No, he's got a
fight coming up, all right. You know, otherwise he'd become
a war party.

Speaker 2 (47:13):
You know what?

Speaker 1 (47:13):
Signed for a game that gives Covino the nervous farts,
But I love it.

Speaker 2 (47:17):
Last one standing.

Speaker 3 (47:19):
You have five seconds to battle for your sports trivia love.

Speaker 2 (47:23):
Man, I.

Speaker 3 (47:30):
Put your electronic devices down and pick your sports knowledge CNRS.

Speaker 2 (47:36):
Last one standing.

Speaker 4 (47:37):
Last one standing. You could hear Covino preparing. I have
four categories ready to go if needed a tiebreaker. Each
contestant gets five seconds to stay alive in the round.
If you run out of time or you answer incorrectly,
Iowa Sam takes you out with his big bad buzzer.
You do not want to hear that. We keep battling
until you are the last one standing. If you win

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to the rounds, you are the top dog. Here are
the contestants. Seven time winner Steve Covino right over there.
Let's go to his right, ten time winner Rich Davis.

Speaker 2 (48:08):
One day you'll get the double digits, buddy.

Speaker 4 (48:10):
The leader, that's what you're on a wife, said the
leader in the clubhouse. Twenty eight time winner.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
Doesn't make sense. We are laughing.

Speaker 4 (48:27):
These are the moments I wish I had ai hosts
over there. Twenty eight time winner Dan Bayer right over there.

Speaker 1 (48:34):
Hello, he's like, he's like Kramer with karate kids.

Speaker 2 (48:41):
Let's go to the studio lines.

Speaker 4 (48:44):
He got through first, and you guys got to give
Eric and Phoenix props. He tries to get through for
the games every week. Thank you, buddy, Eric got in first. Eric,
you're the contestant for last one star.

Speaker 2 (48:54):
Good afternoon, gentlemen. How you doing, Thank you man, Thanks
for playing. What do you do for a living there
in Phoenix?

Speaker 5 (48:59):
Yeah, I'm a procure an officer for the county.

Speaker 9 (49:01):
So I'm like Ron Swanson over here.

Speaker 2 (49:02):
Oh nice, Oh cool. I like that.

Speaker 4 (49:04):
It's got a real job, all right. Spotty is the
fact checker during this game. Yes, yeah, he's got a
lot of anxiety. When I say your name, the clock
is going to begin. Here is the first category. It's
called a lot of real estate. You have five seconds
to name an MLB team whose current stadium has one
of the deepest outfield walls. All right, we'll take the

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top seventeen MLB stadiums with the deepest outfield walls. Colvino,
you're gonna be up first as soon as the timer goes.

Speaker 1 (49:32):
Now, Fenway center Field is deep, Okay, Yes, number one,
damn good poll.

Speaker 2 (49:39):
Rich give me team Mets.

Speaker 10 (49:42):
Mets, Yes, number thirteen, four hundred and eight feet, buyer.

Speaker 2 (49:47):
I feel the Tigers have a deep outfield wall. Tigers do?

Speaker 10 (49:51):
They are number five with four hundred and twelve.

Speaker 2 (49:55):
Eric in Phoenix, how about the Astros?

Speaker 10 (49:58):
Astros number eleven with four h undred and nine feet.

Speaker 2 (50:00):
Remember they used to have that little funny thing in
the outfit with the flagpole. Yeah, all right, we're off
to a good start. Back to Coveno. That was my answer.
Texas Rangers.

Speaker 10 (50:12):
Rangers, yep, they are number sixteen with four hundred Rich.
I don't call blue Jays, but blue Jays I done.

Speaker 2 (50:22):
Know this out of there fire.

Speaker 10 (50:25):
Baltimore, Baltimore, Orioles are number seven with four hundred and
ten feet. Ark Rockies, Rockies four hundred and fifteen feet.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
Number two. That's a good guest, educated guests.

Speaker 1 (50:41):
Job by Coveno, Minnesota, Minnesota.

Speaker 10 (50:50):
Yeah, Twins four hundred eleven feet, number six fire.

Speaker 2 (50:56):
How about the Angels? Angels are I don't know.

Speaker 10 (51:02):
Eric oh, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh.

Speaker 4 (51:07):
Or I don't know not there. That means Coveno, Yeah,
the last one in that round.

Speaker 1 (51:13):
At least my philosophy was I was trying to think
of like some older parks I thought might have been
a little bigger, and then I thought the Blue Jay
is like Dome bigger, and that was my I was
out early.

Speaker 2 (51:24):
Fine, buddy, why didn't you just suck it up?

Speaker 10 (51:25):
Giants were one of the big ones you missed four
hundred and fifteen feet, Diamondbacks four hundred and thirteen feet,
and Guardians four hundred and ten feet.

Speaker 2 (51:35):
All right, all right? Second category?

Speaker 11 (51:37):
What's this?

Speaker 2 (51:37):
What's the park with the smallest mension?

Speaker 1 (51:39):
Is there a team that has like center field like
three ninety something who's in the last place?

Speaker 5 (51:43):
I think is probably short because their lines extend deep.

Speaker 2 (51:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (51:48):
The Keith Fernandez always talked about Wriglely being his favorite
place to hit.

Speaker 10 (51:51):
Where's my list here?

Speaker 1 (51:52):
Well, I don't want to hassle ye, I mean it's okay,
Yankee Stadium together.

Speaker 10 (51:58):
Shortest is actually Petco Park and Angel Stadium clied for
the shortest.

Speaker 2 (52:04):
You got the pesky pole, you got boss and that's short.

Speaker 1 (52:06):
Yankees got a little little little nook and right field
three eight I think right, jeez, it's like.

Speaker 4 (52:11):
Aball field Coveno on the board. As we go to
the second round. Want to be like Steph, you have
five seconds to name an NBA player who's in the
top twenty five for most three pointers made this season.
All right, top twenty five most three pointers made this season. Eric,
You're gonna be up first as soon as the timer
goes now first.

Speaker 10 (52:30):
The last name, please, Draymond Green, thank you?

Speaker 2 (52:32):
Uh not amos?

Speaker 3 (52:35):
Come on?

Speaker 2 (52:36):
Sorry?

Speaker 1 (52:36):
All right?

Speaker 2 (52:37):
Buyer Anthony Edwards, Anthony Edwards, number one.

Speaker 10 (52:41):
Noumero rich, Jalen Brunson, Jalen Brunson.

Speaker 4 (52:46):
Uh no, Covena, I love the NBA.

Speaker 1 (52:56):
Karl Anthony Towns, Carl Anthony town Oh no, that's Jason
Tatum there and Buyer wins.

Speaker 2 (53:04):
That round was so sad? Does he don misunderstand the question?
I think they did. I was thinking the Celtics stuff
so many threes. Just name the stars that are on
that top.

Speaker 6 (53:16):
Hold on, let me go, Uh you want the stars
steps number three.

Speaker 2 (53:21):
Let's I didn't know.

Speaker 1 (53:22):
We could answer him. He was part of the he
wasn't part Yeah, you can answer. Let's see Harden was nine,
James Harden.

Speaker 2 (53:29):
Jalen Brown was here.

Speaker 10 (53:30):
On the Walon Brown was on the list. Yeah, Austin
Reeves twenty. I don't know. I'm just it's a whole
huge list.

Speaker 2 (53:35):
Yeah, little Celtics shoot so many threes. We uh, you
gave it one up like the Warriors threw.

Speaker 6 (53:43):
And threw away. Yeah, all right, so sad so far.
That was just like everyone just gave up Dragon. I
was like Bellinger.

Speaker 1 (53:53):
You see Bellinger swinging a pitch that was like twenty
feet out of the strike.

Speaker 2 (53:57):
So on we hit a break. Sometimes you miss right,
all right?

Speaker 4 (54:00):
Covino and Buyer both on the board as we moved
to the third category. Hope you guys do better here
cross the line. You have five seconds to name an
NFL running back who is top seventeen and most touchdowns
scored over the past five years. NFL running back top seventeen,
most touchdowns scored over the past five years. Coveno, You're
gonna be up first as soon as the timer starts, right.

Speaker 2 (54:22):
Now, gotta go Sekwon Barkley number eleven, thirty nine Rich,
I mean my dude, Christian McCaffrey your.

Speaker 10 (54:31):
Dude, number nine, forty two buyer Aaron Jones Aaron Jones
at number twelve with.

Speaker 2 (54:37):
Thirty good pull Eric Derrick Henry.

Speaker 10 (54:40):
Derrick Henry number one seventy answer Coveno's like.

Speaker 2 (54:50):
Not even in a football minset, I love it? Three,
got me two one all right?

Speaker 10 (54:55):
Eric Harkerson, Josh Josh Jacobs number three with fifty five Yes, sir,
buyer Nick Chubb Nick Chubb YEP number thirteen with thirty.

Speaker 2 (55:05):
Eight Chubb rock. Eric Jonathan Taylor.

Speaker 10 (55:08):
Jonathan Taylor number two with fifty six one.

Speaker 2 (55:12):
Yeah, Rich three two one shaty buyer.

Speaker 10 (55:21):
Joe Mixon Joe Mixon number four, fifty three Back.

Speaker 9 (55:25):
To Eric, Oh, picked on the pig.

Speaker 7 (55:28):
How about Aultin Eckler.

Speaker 2 (55:29):
Austin Eckler YEP number five a hey one buyer Kyen
Williams Karen Williams. H No, Eric is the last one
standing in that round. Hey, you got boy? All right?

Speaker 4 (55:43):
Three way tie Covino buyer Eric and Spotty got a
couple more names that were on that list there.

Speaker 2 (55:49):
Oh yeah, sorry, I'll take accountability.

Speaker 1 (55:51):
I'll take accountability for sucking at the basketball question, but
that one. It's so funny when you move on from
a sports seasonally mentally, like when you are like I
am in my mind like football. I'm on my mental
timeout from football. I had to go through the teams.

Speaker 2 (56:07):
Like who's the running back NFL year round?

Speaker 10 (56:09):
Though I know James Connor with fifty album, Kamara with
forty eight, David Montgomery forty eight, with forty.

Speaker 2 (56:17):
That's crazy Cook on that list. I think Cook is
towards the bottom.

Speaker 4 (56:23):
Seventeen seventeen three all right, fourth category in a three
way tie between cove Buyer and Eric is Ace Hardware.
You have five seconds to name and yeah, you guys
are in the baseball mindset, so no excuses.

Speaker 2 (56:38):
Ace Hardware.

Speaker 4 (56:39):
You have five seconds to name an MLB cy Young
Award winner from the past fifteen seasons, starting with twenty
ten from al or NL of course, and Eric, you're
going to be up first as soon as the timer
goes right now.

Speaker 2 (56:53):
Back Max Serser, how many years, by the way, you said,
fifteen seasons?

Speaker 10 (56:59):
Bye, Corbyn Burns, Corbyn Burns YEP twenty twenty.

Speaker 2 (57:04):
One, Sir Rich Jacob du Gram Jacob du Gram Yes,
two years off to good start. Covina Vernlanders one Ferlander.

Speaker 10 (57:15):
Yep, Eric Clinton Kershaw Clayton Kershaw yep.

Speaker 4 (57:21):
On the list, dB Tark Schooble, Yeah, he love his name,
Rich Gerrett Cole, Garritt Cole yep.

Speaker 10 (57:31):
Twenty twenty three.

Speaker 1 (57:34):
Covina, Oh man did show hey win three?

Speaker 2 (57:41):
No, I'm going to show hey.

Speaker 3 (57:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (57:42):
Don't think you went out didn't win?

Speaker 3 (57:43):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (57:44):
Sorry?

Speaker 10 (57:45):
Eric Snell Snell lakes now yeah, yeah he did. Twenty eighteen, twenty.

Speaker 2 (57:50):
Twenty three buyer h nothing's ringing a bell? Right enough?

Speaker 5 (57:56):
Going back to twenty ten yep three Bumgarner, Uh no,
oh sorry, all.

Speaker 2 (58:03):
Right to Rich it's between Rich and Eric three two
one for.

Speaker 6 (58:13):
Sale yep, good Paul twenty four Eric, Eric said already U.

Speaker 2 (58:23):
Bieber Shane Bieber, Yeah, I think twenty Yeah, that's a
real good one. Good battle here back to Rich.

Speaker 4 (58:35):
Three two Zach Wheeler Nope, son oh Eric.

Speaker 2 (58:45):
Yeah, give us one, Poor, You were pretty good at that.

Speaker 1 (58:48):
I had one at it, No, because I thought maybe
I was thinking like Dan Byer when he said, Bumgarner,
what about linsicom?

Speaker 2 (58:54):
Is that prior to twenty ten? Yeah? I think it
is okay fifteen years go fast.

Speaker 10 (59:01):
Cory Klueber, Ah, good one, Arietta, Ari Dickey, I forgot
about believe that was in the last fifteen year holiday.

Speaker 1 (59:10):
What a failure I am, Trevor Bauer. No one said, Ah,
another good one. I don't want want that guy still.

Speaker 2 (59:18):
Hey, great job, Eric, Yeah, man, your patient's paid off.

Speaker 4 (59:21):
Man, Eric, I'm glad that you finally got in and
you won. Gonna mail off that shining sea in our
swingey to Phoenix for you.

Speaker 1 (59:30):
Throwing some coozies since you're a good dude, right, buddy, Yeah,
you guess you need coozies in Arizona.

Speaker 2 (59:35):
Keep those drinks.

Speaker 3 (59:36):
I know.

Speaker 1 (59:38):
The Pope, Yes, you said that he and a b
are the same guy. I said, how are Antonio Brown
and the Pope alike?

Speaker 2 (59:46):
Alike?

Speaker 1 (59:47):
And the question is this, do you before I tell
you how they're alike? When I say social media? Do
you think social media is real life? Certain aspects I
tend to leave more than others, Like if someone's shown
me how great their relationship is through photos all the time,
I don't necessarily believe that. Yeah, right, I saw a

(01:00:08):
great plus from this Dad on TikTok I follow and
he's like everyone with kids every weekend is a struggle.
So if you see a great picture of like the
family together after I have an ice cream after a game,
do you know the struggle.

Speaker 2 (01:00:20):
It took to get to that point? Danny?

Speaker 1 (01:00:23):
If I see a picture of little CoA smiling on
your lap, do I know what went into getting to
that moment?

Speaker 2 (01:00:29):
Let me tell you.

Speaker 10 (01:00:30):
I stayed I was back East, and I stayed with
my brother and his wife and their kid, and seeing
it firsthand, living with it for a couple of days
versus what I just saw posted on social media for
Mother's Day.

Speaker 1 (01:00:40):
Completely, Yeah, you're seeing everybody's best, right, No one's advertising,
so we know not to believe that fully. And people
like to exaggerate and show off and brag and yeah,
were you really sitting first row at the game? Probably not,
You just did that for the gram. So, but when
it comes to people posting their thoughts or like a

(01:01:01):
news break or alert, you assume that it's real because
it's coming from them the source right now now, social
media from the sense of just said news alerts, that's
one thing, But how people present themselves, And I bring
up how the Pope and Antonio Brown dealing with something
similar the Pope who was announced last week. And I
think it's cool how they have footage of Pope Leo

(01:01:23):
at the White Sox game. Because he's American, he just
seems more relatable than any religious figure we've ever seen
in our lifetime, at least pretty much.

Speaker 2 (01:01:30):
Yeah. I bring up the Pope.

Speaker 1 (01:01:32):
Only because his older brother's on social media talking about
politics and he's pretty opinionated, and it makes you realize
that even if you're the Pope, you might have a brother,
an uncle, a parent who goes on social.

Speaker 2 (01:01:47):
Media and starts yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.

Speaker 1 (01:01:49):
And did you see what the Pope's older brother was
saying about Nancy Pelosi. Let's just say not nice things,
things you would think a pope's brother might not say.

Speaker 4 (01:01:57):
But then again, the pope's brother is like Antonio Brown
then now.

Speaker 2 (01:02:01):
But the Pope has to deal with social media.

Speaker 1 (01:02:04):
He's the pope, and he has to probably field questions like, hey,
Pope Leo.

Speaker 2 (01:02:08):
Like, you know your older brother, you see what he's doing.

Speaker 1 (01:02:11):
And Antonio Brown came out and said, oh, just so
you know, in real life, I love Tom Brady, don't
look at my ex and all that which makes you
wonder X meaning to X meaning Twitter, don't look at
by Twitter? Do? Some people deem social media as like
that's just not real life, that's the imaginary me. You know.
Other people say it's the real me, and I think

(01:02:32):
that's what we get. I think that's on us and
we're getting trolled all the time. It's on the like
Gen X generation for not reading through the bs where
younger generation, a slightly younger generation, the Weenioles or millennials.

Speaker 2 (01:02:43):
Not Money's not younger. Money is like forty now.

Speaker 1 (01:02:46):
Gen Z slightly younger than us, view it as like
who cares? Meaning like your your parents right, remember, like
your family members wouldn't accept certain people because they really
as friends on Facebook because they're really not friends.

Speaker 2 (01:02:59):
Like our our buddy Stanley t did. He used to
do that.

Speaker 1 (01:03:01):
Everybody stand will be like, yo, this guy friend requested me,
but we're not really that tight. I'm like, yeah, say
it's a facebooker because you know Stanley Tucci.

Speaker 2 (01:03:09):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:03:09):
Because ever again, an older generation would take things too literally,
as do we sometimes when it's on social media. So
that's us, that's like shame on us, bad on us
when a younger a slightly younger generation looks at it
like nonsense. I get say and do what I want
and it has no ramifications. It doesn't matter. It's not
a real reflection of me or my family members. I

(01:03:30):
guess garbage is trash. It's all fake because they grew
up knowing how bs it all is when we put
an ounce of stock of reality into it still and
credibility into it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:39):
So the Pope and ab how are they dealing with
the same thing?

Speaker 1 (01:03:41):
The pope people asking about his brother tweeting about Nancy Pelosi,
Antonio Brown being asked about way you said you love
Tom Brady, But what about your Twitter? He says, it's
not real life. So you got to ask yourself. Do
you look at social media other than officially verified news accounts?
Do you look at social media as real? And I'd
like to think it's a weird, exaggerated falsehood. I do

(01:04:03):
not see your Mother's day photo and assume life is
all sunched.

Speaker 2 (01:04:07):
On the rainbows. Right cool. We'll see you guys tomorrow.
AREBA there to you? Baby? See you in the Promised Land, guys.
Bess Bowman