The Best Of Covino & Rich

C&R break a record for using the word "doink" in one hour! Does Haliburton's shot take the top "doink" spot? There's a Teen Wolf time stamp & laughter, as 'OLD-SCHOOL WHEN 50 HITS' blows up the studio lines! Callers & the crew share their favorite 1st impression of a video game! Plus, Piazza's advice to Soto!

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
My first question is, are we prisoners of the moment?
As Danny G likes to say, Hi, DANNYJ Or was
that what up?

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Danny G?

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Danny G's on the phones at eighty seven seven ninety
nine on Fox. He was on the edge of a
seat watching this game last night like everybody else. It
was set up for the Knicks to win. They were
up by eighteen and the fourth. I'm not gonna lie
at that moment. When they were up about eighteen, I
went outside to trimming my rosebushes, and you know, you know,
do the dad thing. You want to admit that, you know,
you do the dad thing. You realize right the radio? Yeah, Rich,

(00:51):
can you make us sound a little cooler?

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (00:53):
No, that that thing would tell your little nose picking
kids to go do that. While that finishes the.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Gate, making sure there were no weeds sticking out of
the I think it's awesome. There's nothing wrong with the
yard work.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Turning off the flowers right there, Daddy, Yeah, bikes go
maybe quarter Dad, Sorry, I mean sorry that you don't
have a curb appeal.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
My house has no say you did it after the
game was completely over.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
No, it's got the herb appeal. When they were up eighteen,
I'm like, all right, I can go. I could go
take out the recycling and check out the gardening worse,
and then Danny g garden. The garden was rocking until
the very end. I was I was worried about the
wrong garden. I guess because I start getting text messages
from Danny and Covino like uh oh. And as soon

(01:34):
as I saw uh oh, I ran back in the house.
I'm like, babe, put the game back on. With six
minutes left in the fourth quarter, the Knicks were up
one eleven ninety four, one eleven ninety four, and as
we already said, they won one thirty eight one thirty five. Halliburton,
with his hands around his neck, they choked what I
just learned, by the way, in the last couple of minutes,
what Dann Buyer's got class and you two clowns.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Probably live like you think that's a compliment. We've always
known you're You're the last guy to realize it. So
if I was Dan Byron being sould good at Dan
Buyer's house, I bet you.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
I bet you. Everything's nicely medicare I just did my
front lawn and I'll show you pictures during the break.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
You know what, Dan, I'm not surprised. I always thought
you had class. Rich just figured this out. The difference
Rich is he does it in between the big games.

Speaker 4 (02:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Right, So the first question, based on everything we saw
Nie Smith lighten it up five to three pointers. You're like,
what the hell's happening right now? Was that the craziest
doink shot of all time? Or was that just prisoner
of the moment reaction? Because when that happened, you were like,
no way, And then.

Speaker 5 (02:40):
The crowd got silent, the broadcast got silent.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
You're like, what is it? Was that a three?

Speaker 6 (02:45):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (02:45):
No?

Speaker 2 (02:46):
Is that a premature celebration?

Speaker 1 (02:49):
It got real weird and awkward for a minute because
I think nobody really understood what happened. Did the shot
golf on time? You didn't know how to react. Prisoner
of the moment? Was that the wildest shot or doing
of all time? Or do you have another one that
comes to mind? I don't think I'm being a prisoner
of the moment when I say it absolutely was. And
I'll tell you why that was the wildest ending the

(03:09):
series of events that led up to it, Like it
looked like he was driving to the basket and its
like psych oh, you know he saw a defender right
there in the box and then he did the little
backup and you're like, oh, what is he trying to
be a hero?

Speaker 2 (03:22):
And then when it hit you're like, what not on?
When it bointd up?

Speaker 1 (03:27):
Is it a point or a doink? I think a
point is what you're doing this weekend?

Speaker 2 (03:31):
It was a doink?

Speaker 3 (03:31):
It a doink like the Clown because Kawhi had the
triple doink. Yes, so this had this is competing with
that one.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
That's the first one that has to come to mind,
right because it's a recent legendary moment. And are you
are you listing your favorite doinks? Yeah, the clown is
last on the list. Dan, was it the Bears the
double doink? Yes, it was Cody Parky double dort.

Speaker 5 (03:55):
Good just had a good doink last year. Remember the playoffs,
they had a couple.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
They had one against the Raiders, right too, the Chiefs
had a couple of doinks, but the Bears one. You're
speaking about the doint doink, no good, the Kawhi doint doink, doint.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Triple doid and again crucial moment. Right.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Oh, what about one of your favorite childhood movies, Pewey's
Big Adventure, which one Teen Wolf?

Speaker 5 (04:20):
Oh, my other favorite movie. Yeah, there was a very
famous triple doink. It was like two and a half doinks,
but it was a triple doink to end the game
where teen Wolf himself makes that legendary foul shot while
the guy's just standing there under the basket quill never happens.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
We all agree, we love Michael J. Fowx and everything
about him, except for the fact that his shooting basketball mechanics.
Ye had a terrible He's like, you know what a
little kid through pushes with both hands, like he had
some decent ball handle, but his shot was weak. But
that whole situation was weak too, because the guy the Nemesis.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Keep your ball handling for yourself.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
The Nemesis, the bad guy from the bad team was
under the basket like taunting him, like, that's how you
defend the free Oh, that's how you line up. Yeah,
but that was a triple door. That was like a
two and a half. Think if you look back, you
might need to look this one up.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
At Alan Houston on the other side, famously, for the
Knicks had a game winning jumper often referred to as
the doink winner, but it was against the Heat back
in ninety nine.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
Danny g you will open it up to everybody, prisoner
of the moment or not? Eight seven seven ninety nine
on Fox hit us up at Covino and Rich at
Fox Sports Radio. When you think of the series of
events that led up to this and again at the
Garden Eastern Conference Finals, big moment.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
Like we said, Nie Smith hit what six of his
six of eight in the fourth quarter, six of his.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
Eight three pointers in the fourth I think he hit
five in a row at one point. Ended up with
thirty points. Halliburton ended up with thirty one. His foot
was just on the line, though, just on the line,
but pushed it to overtime, so he said, he said,
and I quote him, it was an early celebration in
early selly, meaning he was waiting for the perfect opportunity

(06:05):
to bust out the Reggie Miller choking signal and hand gesture.
But you know what, it pushed it overtime and they
ended up winning, So all's fair. He got that off
and he ripped the hearts out of all Knicks fans
and the Knicks team. Did you see Brunson at the
end of the game at the press conference sitting there

(06:26):
like like bewildered.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
Like a vane was about to pop in his head?

Speaker 1 (06:30):
Seriously, was just sitting there emotionlessly, just like you wondered
could he recover?

Speaker 6 (06:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (06:34):
It was the weird and I get it. That was again,
that was me. I've said it a few times in
the past few weeks. This was Mola ram Level Khali,
Ma Kali and mol Rom just ripped the heart out
of all the Knicks fans and stomped all over it.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Game one at home. Look, it's not over by any means.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
Even Charles Barkley, who has the Pacers winning, says, you know,
the Knicks will recover. It's only the first game, but
still a game he should have had and has to
crush the spirit a little bit.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
But that doint.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
Let's focus on that shit I got was ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
More doinks?

Speaker 1 (07:07):
That was the most ridiculous shot ever twenty twenty four. Okay,
not this football season, last football season.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
And of course you're gonna say I remember because I'm
a nine Ers fan.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
But do you remember when that big comeback against the
Detroit Lions in the NFC Championship game when the defender
ran a little too far, it doinked off of him.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
Into the arms of Brandon Ayuk for a touchdown. That's right, doink?
What about this one? What are you doing? One of
your favorite donks off the head of jose Canseko.

Speaker 5 (07:36):
That's a famous best was a famous donk?

Speaker 2 (07:43):
That is such a great one. You know, there was
a recent one.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
I forget who it was, but there was a recent
one off the head and it wasn't a home run,
but it was someone got hit right off the head.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
It was really funny to see. I mean, David Tyree
was a doink or just against the helmet? Do you
called it? That was.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
Sorry, but that was more like a yoink ground It
was like a bit of a yoink.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
So where do you rank that? Are we prisoners at
the moment?

Speaker 1 (08:08):
Or where you just as bewildered as and be fuddled
and be muffled as Brunson and everybody else watching because
rich you know how they say or imitates life. If
they did this in a movie, you would be yeah, right,
that would never happen. It hit off the rim and
bounce so perfectly up and it felt like it was

(08:32):
up there. So it was past the backboard, right am
I imagining this now? Past the backward It felt you
was so high and you watched it in slow motion.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
Go right in like zinc. That was insane.

Speaker 8 (08:43):
It went so high it left the TV screen like yeah,
like it felt it wasn't even in the camera shot.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
I gotta watch it again, Dan, because it was insane
to see. Thank you. That was wild.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
The way it fell straight down is the way you
have to shoot basketball at an amusement park to win
a big stuffed animal.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
That happens, Tyl s Helburton. I don't know if you
know he got a Scooby doo afterward.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
That happens one out of like ten thousand times a
bounce like that. That was insane, say even more than
ten thousand, because that so even though he said it
was a it was a premature celebration with the choking
Regi Miller thing. I think it was appropriate because of
the moment and that bounce, but yeah, it would have
been cooler wait behind the line.

Speaker 3 (09:28):
But if they had lost in overtime, what would you
have been saying right now?

Speaker 2 (09:32):
Yeah, we would have been laughing at it.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
Yeah, they had to win at that he wasted the
choke saying yeah, they had a win and they did.

Speaker 3 (09:38):
Yeah, and then you would have been listing not the
greatest doinks of all time, but like the greatest premature
celebrations of all.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
Dude, without a doubt, Danny, Yeah, they saved that moment
by winning the game for sure.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
And he admitted, like, you know, he was a little premature.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
He was waiting for the perfect moment, thought that was
the moment, but his foot was on the line. Would
you call the immaculate reception in the NFL a doint
because it went off the defender right into the arms. Yeah,
I guess it is a receiver for the Steelers, But
I think what comes to mind first is.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
Are your raiders at the receiving end of that day, some.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
Of the players and coaches on the field, Rich claimed
that it slightly doinked off the turf and.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Frank o'harris for the win.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
We all think Kawhi Leonard, though, I think in recent
history with the most famous triple doink, because it was
also a great overhead by the way, that they ever
see the overhead photograph of Kawhi just sitting there waiting.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
You have this overhead of this too.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
Yeah, No, I know what you mean that I kind
of moment sitting there, everyone's just watching, like there was
a movie doint doint doin that's insane. Now does the
three here's basically the stupid question. I guess when you
really want to break it down, that was a triple
doink and you had everyone there watching, and that's very
team Wolf like in movie Like You're right, does the

(10:53):
triple doink beat out a doink that went straight up
and out of the screen?

Speaker 2 (11:00):
Like Dan Byer said, I.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
I think, without being a prisoner of the moment, I
still think this one. Yeah, it was wild because the
Kauhi was a decent shot and he just got the
role essentially. And I started I started looking around and
I was in a room by myself, like you, I
was doing the you believed that I'm pointing at the
TV like, do.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
You believe we believe this? You were talking to your dog? Yeah,
I'm talking to the door.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
But that's one of those moments that whoever's in the room,
you're looking at them like.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
What did you see that?

Speaker 1 (11:30):
And again not that the Kawai shot was perfect, but
again he got the role on like a soft triple doink,
Like it was amazing. This was one we're going to
see for years to come. This is like you know
when you're in the school yard and it was like
a circus shot, Like you ever see this kid like
the globe crowded trotters couldn't perfect that shot.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
But it shouldn't. It didn't win at the buzzer the
way Kawhis did. Yeah, that puts it over the edge.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
You ever see that clip of the kid that threw
a ball against a school yard wall thousands of times
because there was a hole in the wall the size
of like the tennis ball. Yeah, and then finally after
thousands that like this is like a you know, a
lot of kids watch dude perfect perfect placement. This is
like a dude perfect trick shot.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
You know, that's actually a great challenge.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
I would love to see guys like dude perfect and
see how many times it would take them to recreate
that shot off the back of the rim so that
it goes directly up.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
In the air.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
And then in overtime, and by the way, again, when
you watched it in real time, it was it was
sort of confusing, Like I like that dramatic pause. I
was wondering the broadcasters letting it breathe for the moment
because they used to hear the crowd roar, but the
crowd was silent, and I think they were still trying
to figure out when it was it a winning.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
Shot or not.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
But that that silence, which was not that long, but
in the moment, it felt like it was like thirty
seconds of silence, you know.

Speaker 3 (12:58):
I think what else made that shot pretty incredible was
the fact that he had to regroup and recover and
step back the way he did. And a lot of
times when you see an NBA player have to regroup
like that, it's almost an airball that gets shot. And
so to see the force that he still got the
ball up there and then the ball bounced straight up
that surprised Macau.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
The way he looked. I thought, oh, it was this
going to be an airball.

Speaker 1 (13:22):
And you know what, in any championship moment, playoff moment,
you need a little.

Speaker 2 (13:25):
Bit of luck.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
They played big at the end, and again the series
of events that led to that moment.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
That was a big moment.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
But you can't sleep on what Nismith did hitting all
those threes from this free throws that really contribute. Yeah,
exactly all those moments. You have to imagine that the
PACER's confidence is through the roof.

Speaker 8 (13:44):
The reason I knew that the ball left the frame
was because I slow mode the final three seconds on
my TV, like in the DEVR to watch it. And
there's a point where Halliburton goes into the lane and
then turns around, looks at the clock at the other
basket to find out how much time he has, which
is now under two seconds, so it's like one point

(14:05):
seven seconds. He then realized instead of just turning around
at that point, that he has enough time to at
least jump and try to get on the other side
of the three point line. Then got the shot off
with one second. There was a fan on the sideline
after the ball hit the rim that is like this
his arms in the air. I know you can't see
it on the radio, but I'll describe it. And then
they immediately go to the top of his head in

(14:27):
disgust as the.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
Boss surrender Kobra Right, yes, now, in overtime, when the
Knicks were down by three, listen, I feel like Brunson
and kat got two looks at a three. It wasn't like,
you know, the tightest defense. It was good defense. But
don't you feel like Brunson and Karl Antony Towns both
had shots.

Speaker 2 (14:49):
There were two opportunities.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
Yes, it wasn't like, man, there was point whatever seconds
and they couldn't get a shot off.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
They had two looks and it just, yeah, a few looks.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
But they also played some bad defense the previous.

Speaker 8 (15:01):
One and had the ball go out of bounds on
Brunson's hands after it was deflected by Nemhart. So they're
only down one at that point. If they keep possession,
maybe they get a better shot.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
Dude, that game seemed so over to the point where
you're right Rich, you know, I really don't blame you.
We're going outside to trim your rose garden because it
seemed over at the Madison Square garden.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
He's not the only one in the country who tuned.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
Out was almost a twenty point game. My kids are
eating Slopping Joe's for dinner, you know, the wife's getting
bathtime ready, and I'm like, yeah, hey, I'm gonna go
outside for five minutes. Dad needs a breather. So I
go outside, thinking I saw the game. I guess I
got it.

Speaker 3 (15:45):
It's one of those games where we had to keep
checking it though, because again we've talked about this earlier
in this NBA season. A twenty point lead in the
NBA is not the same that it used to be
with all these.

Speaker 1 (15:54):
Three hitting those threes. I started getting the nervous farts
a little bit.

Speaker 3 (15:59):
At one point it became suddenly one twenty three to
one eighteen, and that's when I focused in again and
sat down.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
I could not believe my god.

Speaker 1 (16:07):
I gotta ask this question because this was a trending
thing on Twitter and social media today. Are Dallas Cowboys
fans thrilled? Are they calling this the redemption like the
curse of steven A Smith for being so hard on
Cowboys fans? So are Cowboys fans loving the moment where
you get to see steven A All said about his knicks.

(16:27):
I'd imagine so the dude comes in with a cowboy hat,
and every time Dallas loses the big game.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
So I can guarantee I'm a sad man.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
There's gotta be some Cowboys fans sad man.

Speaker 3 (16:38):
Yeah, if they wind up, if they wind up losing
this series, then I think Cowboys fans will probably revel
in it.

Speaker 1 (16:44):
And again, what was the old saying, the thrill of
victory and the agony of defeat. Well you saw the
agony of defeat in that press conference. You saw and
nick spirits like leave their bodies, and that press conference
was lame, miserabless Brunston sitting there and again wasted for performance.
Bruntson forty three points, Karl Anthony Town's thirty five, I

(17:05):
think he had which one clowns told me under twenty eight?
I believe his name was Steve Cavino. Did I are
you sure it was me?

Speaker 2 (17:11):
Yeah? I'm like we could go back to the videos.
Oh man, don't listen to me, bro So, but don't worry.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
You know you would have won your draft picks pick
sick yesterday if you picked anyone in the over, because
it went five like every one of the ones we
talked about.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
Danny over over, over over over.

Speaker 1 (17:26):
It proved two things, like Danny g said, in these
games in today's world, with threes like that, you can't
leave stick around. And it proves again that basketball so
magical and so great when they're playing at this level
in the playoffs. The reaction of last night's game pacers

(17:48):
with a huge win game one again stomping on the
hearts of the Knicks. And I'm saying it was the
best doink shot. You're probably thinking since Kawhi, but I
think since Teen Wolf, since since.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
The triple doink in the movie Teen Wolf Ridge Classical.
What do you remember that one, two three kick of
the eighties music?

Speaker 1 (18:20):
And by the way, the random fun fact about the
ending of Teen Wolf, not only did Michael J. Fox
make the final shot, this is a fun fact. There's
a dude, do you know this story?

Speaker 2 (18:34):
Yeah, you told us that you used to pause your
your v A the time.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
That's not true, but there is a fun fact that
you know. It takes place in a in a high
school in the eighties and the kid makes the shot.
It's a story of puberty. Really, that's really what this
movie is about. But one of the extras in the
Gymnasium has his junk out, yeah, right there, undoes his
fly un doesn't fly has his junk out right there.

Speaker 2 (18:59):
That's the time stay conoh, Torino has it at one
forty three.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
I haven't memorized, but it's one of those infamous sort
of moments.

Speaker 2 (19:08):
It's there's two Michael J.

Speaker 1 (19:10):
Fox random moments like that, the junk shot at the
end of teen Wolf, which is true, by the ways.

Speaker 5 (19:15):
The guy that you say jump shot or junk shot,
junk shot, he makes a foul shot, but there's a
guy with a junk shot in the background.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
Junk shot and shot. I don't know. It was less
impressive the junk shot or his jump shot. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
And then if you watch Back to the Future three,
which many say is the worst one but still still.

Speaker 2 (19:31):
Enjoy like it. It's good. It's it's different.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
Say you're a big fan of Mad Dog ten and right,
oh yeah, dude, mad Dog ten.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
How old was Brett Farr when he was an extra
in that movie? Good one? And that man is Brett Farr.

Speaker 1 (19:45):
So I was saying in the end of Back to
the Future three, remember when doc Emit Brown rolls up
on the train like Marty, I've turned the train into
a timer set. There's a little boy and it's son
in the future, like this is little Emmitt, some little
redheaded Weisenheimer. They must have been a signal they say

(20:05):
on the set, like if one of the kid actors
needs to pee, he just like points down to his privates.
So in the middle of the scene Michael J. Fox
and Docum mc brown having like an emotional moment, you just.

Speaker 5 (20:15):
See the little kid. Like if you watch a scene, yeah,
looking up on it.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
What's that kid? What does he do with the two
random Michael J. Fox moments.

Speaker 1 (20:25):
But in the movie Teen Wolf, there is a famous
triple doint to win the shot and again life imitates
our armor imitates lif if you think of Kawhi. But
that one last night was it was a circus shot.
You know, we joked about the clown and wrestling. There
was a gimmick I totally forgot this where there were
two doinks to doink the clowns double doink. I'm gonna

(20:48):
give you a shot at a free coffee right now.
Oh boy, that's our usual wager. Becus Cavino's a cheap skit.

Speaker 2 (20:54):
Alex P.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
Keaton, Marty McFly legendary Michael Jay Fox. In fact, I'll
buy you coffee for a week if you could tell
me what his character's name in Teenwolf was.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
I was trying to think about it. I had to
look it up.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
What was Francis His name? Chubby or chunk, Chunky, Chubs,
chubbs Chunky. I couldn't think of his name.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
I don't think anyone knows.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
I could sing you the Teen Wolf cartoons song if
you wanted me to. I can't think of the guy's name.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
Styles was the cool guy Styles? Styles? Right? But he
was Scott Howard. That's a tough thing.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
I want to remember that. But are we prisoners of
the moment? Or was that just insane last night? I
think because of how it dooined, like off the back
of the rim, straight up in the air, like as
if almost you know, like remember the angels in the
outfield when the ball was being carried by angels into
the players. I feel like that ball went straight up
and like God, that's the thing. I feel like, if

(21:50):
it happened on any level is ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
Is the popa Pacers fan? Do we checked this?

Speaker 3 (21:56):
But I feel like his toe kept it from being
the greatest doing of all time.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
Had it closed out the game, yeah, had it.

Speaker 3 (22:03):
Been a three pointer to win it, then I think
it would have been on the on the.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
Top fair point.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
Danny, let's go JP, and Florida says we are forgetting
the best triple doink?

Speaker 2 (22:12):
What's up? JP?

Speaker 9 (22:13):
Okay?

Speaker 6 (22:14):
Triple doink? I'm going to go a little off the
grid here, and I apologize I'm going to hit a
nerve here, but it's in Japan. One of your favorite
people someone knocked out with a triple doink upper cut,
then a left than a right right.

Speaker 2 (22:31):
Are you talking with James Buster Douglas.

Speaker 6 (22:33):
I'm sorry, I'm so yah.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
We love ry. Would you need to bring that up
right now?

Speaker 1 (22:38):
I was having such a nightt day and not only
did it knock out Mike Tyson, he was never the
same in never recover. And we're all sitting there mouth
wide open, like holy what just happened? It was a
boom boom bow. Those shots are so powerful. I don't
look look at them as I going to Caleb and Idaho,
what's up, buddy?

Speaker 10 (22:57):
Hey, what's up?

Speaker 4 (22:58):
Guys? So I got two playoff shots for you regarding
the Knicks, and these are from since nineteen ninety nine
when playoff way by by play by play tracking started.
So teams were oh in nine hundred and forty four
when trailing by fourteen with two forty five lets in
the game, and then teams were oh in one thy

(23:20):
four hundred and fourteen by trailing by at least nine
with under a minute left the game in the game,
all right, so a literal all time playoff choke job.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
You know what, what do you think of those numbers
probabil this morning? And then you think about the chances
of that shot going in? Like I said, how many
times would it take a dude perfect globetrotter like moment?
How many times do you would take to make that shot?
That's insane that that happened.

Speaker 8 (23:45):
Think about if this was the Golden State Warriors down
fourteen with three minutes to go, what does Steve Kerr do?
Everybody's pulled because they're old, right, Why have Steph Curry
and Jimmy Butler and them run around the floor. What
a great point for two you know, for the final
two or three minutes. That's not who the pacers are.
So like, those stats are mind blowing, But how many

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times do teams just wave the white flag when they're
down by what fourteen with three minutes left or nine
points with a minute left. A lot of times teams
are just like, we'll pack it in, and the Pacers
not only don't back it in, they've done it now
three times once in each of the series they've been in.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
In these I.

Speaker 1 (24:23):
Really think we are downplaying Indiana because of they're not.
Let's be honest, Indiana. Now we're we're caught up on
the knick hype too. Yeah, talking about all the old
school heads, the old heads coming there to support you know,
you're having all this electricity at the garden. We're from
the East coast, so yeah, we're caught up in that excitement.
The Pacers, what they did was insane. Let's go to

(24:46):
e Dog in New York. Cocky Dog. I wouldn't be
surprised if he's drunk from yesterday.

Speaker 10 (24:53):
I hate to tell you this, but I'm sober for
twenty eight years.

Speaker 2 (24:57):
And of right, Hey, that's celebrate yeah man, congrats.

Speaker 10 (25:04):
Okay, I'm attending my group anniversary on Friday, and always
welcome to go.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
If you sober, Happy for you, man, be sober. I
feel way dumb for making a drinking joke. Jeez.

Speaker 10 (25:20):
Also about these Knicks. Listen, they're not done. No, They're
gonna come back in Game two. They're gonna scoll a
lot of points. And if the Knicks wall buck behind,
they can always catch up, because that's what they did
against Boston. And uh, I hope nobody gets hurt on Indiana.
But uh I'm a riggie little fan too, But I'm
glad that the Knicks are gonna win Game two, three, four,

(25:43):
and five. They're gonna win in the five.

Speaker 2 (25:46):
You're you're saying a back end gentleman sweep.

Speaker 1 (25:49):
You know you have to Richie's just drunk with Nick's enthusiastic. Yeah,
you have to imagine that when Brunson was sitting there
is wool cap on his skull on pountin that you know,
in shock, that he's just mentally preparing himself to get mad,
get angry and make sure they win the next game.

(26:10):
By the way, what's the chances I make a drunk
joke about a guy that's like, I've been sober for
twenty eight years. It's just you, you're insensitive about It's
just rich You were just like foot in his mouth, Davis.

Speaker 2 (26:24):
That's why you can't control himself. As it happened.

Speaker 1 (26:27):
See, we're live from the Fox Sports Radio studio and
it's time for the tire rack play of the day,
and I'm sure you know which one we're highlighting today.
It was a premature chokes sign that wound up working
out in overtime two point games, six seconds to go,

(26:47):
Haliburton driving, he's in the lane, he nearly lost, and
he backs up and unloads AP three.

Speaker 2 (26:55):
That did not happen. It hit the back of the rim.
Hit popped hi.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
Today and it dropped gently through the net gently trewly nets.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
I mean, how is a great description. That's exactly what happened.

Speaker 3 (27:09):
Gently, And then his stat team told him, hey, it's
actually a two.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
Oh boy, Hey, the knicks hearts were ripped out on
that one. As you know, Halbern and Indiana got Jama
courtesy of the Pacers Radio Network.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
And it's time. There's a certain.

Speaker 6 (27:29):
Y.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
What we gonna do is go back.

Speaker 7 (27:33):
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 (27:45):
Yeah, hey, look at that, we're right on time for once.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
Yeah, boy, within fifty hits on the clock, when fifty
hits in life, old school man, old school.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
And fifty hits we do it every Thursday.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
We get you involved at eight seven seven ninety nine
on Fox and today we discuss our games. And as
Iowa Sam hinted it, hinted at it, it was pac
Man nineteen eighty. On this day, pac Man became a
thing out of Japan, and before Super Mario, everything was

(28:16):
pac Man. Before Sonic, before Sonic, before any of these
iconic characters, pac Man was everything. I remember the arcade
game like yesterday. But what I remember even more than that,
rich was when Atari twenty six hundred was the thing,
or maybe you had Calico Vision or in television, whatever
you had, when it was part of the home console,

(28:37):
you were able to play pac Man at home.

Speaker 2 (28:39):
That was Yeah, that was the next level.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
Now pac Man, I thought misspac Man was almost better,
and Miss pac Man I think was more popular.

Speaker 2 (28:46):
To be honest, it was the pac Man rage of
the eighties.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
Like I said, cartoons, Saturday Morning cartoons, lunchboxes, T shirts closed,
pac Man was.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
Everywhere and was crazy about it.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
Stuffed animals right, everything if you were at the boardwalk,
You're trying to win a pac Man something. Now listen,
but you don't see really any sense of pac Man today.
Here's the thing, You're a little older than me, and
people would know that by looking at you.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
A little older, lot cooler.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
Though, yeah kidding, but I'm more of a kid of
the eighties and nineties. So my first gaming console was
late eighties, because if you don't recognize the popular pac Man,
I'm more late eighties early nineties. So to me, my
first video game console was Nintendo. I missed Atari, and
I for that reason, think that pac Man doesn't get

(29:33):
enough credit. I feel like Mario has a billion dollar
movie industry now Sonic the Hedgehog, just as the Banditkoop
gets more propst and Parapa the Rapper gets more pac Man.

Speaker 5 (29:43):
Pac Man movie, Like, wasn't there was it? Adam Sandler?
Was that was a good one? Pixels?

Speaker 2 (29:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (29:49):
Yeah, it was a great movie. Was that was that
actually pac Man? Or was that something he was involved?

Speaker 2 (29:53):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (29:54):
And it was so many different iterations of pac Man
and what he looked like like in the game and
on the cartoon and things like that.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
But pac Man was huge. Was iconic.

Speaker 3 (30:03):
It generated over two point five billion dollars in quarters
by the nineteen nineties.

Speaker 1 (30:08):
Yeah, that's amazing, and like I said, a lot of
coin Remember playing it on Atari, You remember seeing it
for the first time, being blown away? Like you could
play this at home. You have to bring those all
to a coinstar machine. I hope not so. Based on
the anniversary of pac Man Again Revolutionary and Every Game
Changer pun intended from nineteen eighty on this day, If
you can go back in time, tuc if you can

(30:30):
go back in time Martin McFly style, what's that one
game you'd love to go back to experience for the
first time. Oh, you could go back to Chuck E
Cheese or show Biz Pizza plays for that local arcade
and experience that game.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
For the first time. What would it be? You know?

Speaker 1 (30:48):
I think we could include arcades and home consoles, because
that's fair too. Yeah. I have an answer, and I
think it's gonna be hard to beat. I'll throw it
out there and we'll take your feedback. I think when
I was at the Baseball car shop, the baseball car
shop in my hometown also had a couple of arcade
games in it. When they said we're bringing in this

(31:10):
new game, NBA Jam.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
That was your Jam.

Speaker 1 (31:15):
You could personalize the characters like there were special codes
you could use, like you're like, wow, that actually looks
like Tim Hardaway. Oh wow, he can't buy a bucket
like that game was next level in my mind.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
So NBA Jam number.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
One on this guy's list, and we want to hear
from you eight seven, seven nine nine on Fox More
Coveno on Rich. Friday, June twentieth, we are doing our
Coveno on Rich Fox Sports Radio show live from Circa

(31:51):
in Las Vegas, Las Vegas Stadium, Swim Stadium, Swim. We're
having a coven On Rich Pool party on Friday, So
you know, break out your flip flops and bring your
some block. It's gonna be hot out there, but we're
gonna be doing a great bust that your skimpiest bikini, No,
that's too Sam, Get your speedo ready, buddy.

Speaker 2 (32:10):
I expect a yellow Iowa speedo.

Speaker 9 (32:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
I would say maybe almost like a Borat style hammock
with like an old school Dusty Roads black and.

Speaker 5 (32:18):
Yellow, black and yellow with a giant I on around
the you know, almost like a like a wrestling single.

Speaker 1 (32:24):
Well, some of your favorite Fox Sports Radio friends will
be there. But listeners, friends, romans, countrymen, we are inviting
you Circa June twentieth. We're doing a live broadcast and
a bonus podcast on Saturday.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
So here's how it rolls.

Speaker 1 (32:38):
Friday, doing the show live pool party, Stadium Swim, the biggest,
most luxurious, beautiful pool in Vegas, so Circa for the
pool party Friday night the Legacy Lounge, which is the
top floor of Circa. They're having a firework show. We
got drinks and food and all the fun. That's kept
all the prices low, guys, so it's not gonna break

(32:58):
the bank. You're invited. The next day, we're doing, like
I said, a podcast and another dinner for everybody. And
I'll tell you what, because I want to get back
to the phone calls. We'll go over all the details
on over Promised on Fox Sports Radios YouTube page.

Speaker 2 (33:12):
Give you all the details, show you what it's all about.

Speaker 1 (33:16):
Right after this show an hour from now, episode ninety
three of over Promise. But this is your invite Circa
in Vegas. We hope to see you there. June twentieth,
twenty first twenty second. Let me just remind everyone though,
for all the big sports fans, they say that Circa
has the nicest sports book and you should see the
TV screens and all the games going Danny g that's
sports book.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
Oh yeah, I've sat in there for two hours straight.
My god, just I mean, it's beautiful.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
And there's a whole area where we are going to
have a big dinner on that Saturday night the twenty first, drinks, food,
the whole deal. We'll give everyone more details as we
get closer, but Circa that weekend of the twentieth and
twenty first, I'm telling you it's gonna be a blessed.
This is your invite. Guys, we hope to see you there.
Fox Sports Radio Nation. Details on our social media pages.
All right, we got discount and all sorts of things

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going on. But back to the phone calls, pac Man,
I'm telling you, if you didn't live it, please believe
me huge. I remember just being blown away the first
time I saw it. And you know, actually I was
such a spoiled kid, but my dad worked in the
vending industry.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
Yeah, I had a misspack ran machine when I was
a kid. I bet you did.

Speaker 11 (34:24):
I did.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
I was like the Mexican Ricky Schroeder in your living room. Yeah,
it's like Silver Spoons Vatto style.

Speaker 1 (34:32):
But anyway, it's one of those games that you do
want to go back and relive and remember because we
had never seen anything like that before. Atari before these
arcade games, would you have like Pong and a bunch
of bs?

Speaker 3 (34:44):
Do you remember when pac Man had the sit down
version of the video game where.

Speaker 1 (34:49):
Yeah, listen, we had one of those at the iHeart
in New York Danergy like twenty years ago, and in
between songs, we'd all jump out there and play in between.

Speaker 2 (34:57):
Ah, that's that's really cool.

Speaker 3 (34:58):
I remember being a really really small kid and me
and my older brother we would look inside a teen
center that was in our city here in southern California.
I wish we could go in there because we saw
the teenagers playing pac Man while they were sitting down.

Speaker 1 (35:10):
All the young eighties bullies and teenagers trying to steal
your quarters and jump in on your game. Whether you
were at Showbiz pizza place or the arcade or your
hobby shack Rich buying baseball cards you said they had
video games there, or the bowling alley was always great
for arcade games.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
What about Noah's Arcade.

Speaker 1 (35:26):
Yeah, if you can go back to Noah's Arcade, which
one would it be?

Speaker 2 (35:30):
No event interview.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
I know DANNYG has a really great answer. I like
your answer a lot, DANNYG. So I'm trying to think
of a different even even better than mine before me.
If you're just joining us now at the end of
last hour, I said for me being more of a
kid at late eighties early nineties, man, when NBA jam
that was a four player by the way, Yeah, all
these people say, you know around there's a lot of

(35:51):
pressure as a little eighties kid because all these people
were watching you play, right, waiting for the next game.

Speaker 3 (35:57):
Yeah, another multiple player arcade game Rich where me and
my brother and cousin would take turns and we would
use pencils, pens, popsicle sticks to hit two buttons at
the same time. Track and Field. Oh yeah, absolutely, that
was that. We spent hours on that damn stand up
video game. And then the one at home and this
I probably have the best memories of unwrapping this one.

(36:20):
Punch out dude. You could not wait to get that
out of the package.

Speaker 1 (36:24):
Honestly, I think you stole my answer, Danny G. And
It was a two pronged answer because if I was
gonna go back to the arcade, and I mentioned this
to Rich and Spot recently. I remember all the arcade games.
I was such an arcade kid, and I loved playing
all these games. The one that stood out the most
to me, even before Dragon's Layer, which was like crazy

(36:45):
graphics for the time, Remember that was regular punch Out
and the sounds that went with it, the arcade sounds
of body blow, body blow, body blow, uppercut, uppercut, great fighting,
You're an up and coming boxer, the whole thing of
Glass Joe and all these characters before Tyson was incorporated
into the Nintendo the Arcade version, and then when the

(37:07):
Nintendo version came out, that was one of those like
oh man, I got it, gotta have it, you gotta
have that.

Speaker 3 (37:15):
And I remember we bothered our mom for months and
we weren't the first on our street to have it,
so we were jealous of everyone who had it. So
when she finally got enough money to get that for us,
you know, because she was a single mom at the time,
we were beyond excited to take that out of the
packaging and.

Speaker 1 (37:30):
The Nintendo version. Mike Tyson's version. The graphics at the
time you thought were the greatest thing ever. So I
would love to go back and relive that if I could,
because I just remember how I was mesmerized by that game,
and I showed rich on home video of me the
first time I fought Mike Tyson on the game. I
finally got there. My dad recorded it. So what was

(37:51):
that moment for you? And we'll go around the room.
We'll take your phone calls.

Speaker 10 (37:54):
What up?

Speaker 2 (37:55):
Dan Byer.

Speaker 8 (37:56):
Techmo super Bowl on the Nintendo was the biggest because
the first tech Mobile that came out didn't have all
the teams, but this one not only did it have
the teams that had the little pixel graphic of the
helmet and a select screen.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
Den Bayer such.

Speaker 1 (38:12):
I know you think you're it could be no guy,
But Jabino and I for years have when we talk
about the love of tech Moobil, I always say, no, no, no,
Techmo super Bowl is the far superior Nintendo game.

Speaker 2 (38:28):
Absolutely, it was so good.

Speaker 1 (38:31):
So when I think in my mind tech Mobile, I'm
actually thinking Techmo Super Yes. And I a lot of
times in the past incorrectly said super tech Mobile.

Speaker 2 (38:39):
It's Techmo Super Yeah.

Speaker 8 (38:40):
I did the same thing, but to be able to
play a full season, go through the weeks, have a
playoff setup.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
It was. It was great.

Speaker 1 (38:48):
It's the little kids dream that loves schedule watching like
you and I. You know, these are all great answers
if you can go back and relive it for the
first time. Danny, g did you give your answer? Because
I thought you were gonna say something else end up
arcade game? Yeah, my first memory of ever going to
an arcade. I was mesmerized by pole position. I remember
being at Foton, which is a laser tag place growing up,

(39:11):
and they had a pole position there and that was like,
you're almost intimidated to step up and play that game,
and it looked.

Speaker 3 (39:17):
So cool, especially seeing the older kids play it, dude
at the time, because they had tried Yeah, exactly. We
didn't know how to drive, we didn't know what we
were doing. We didn't know what we were doing with
the stick shift, but watching the older kids do it,
we wanted to try that too. And I remember leaving
that arcade thinking to myself, if I could have a
handheld version of that in the car right now with
my mom, I would play that game forever.

Speaker 2 (39:38):
Well, you had pole Position.

Speaker 1 (39:39):
You had rad Race or two right for your Nintendo,
but Pole Position arcade game was definitely one of those
games that everyone was just trying to get in line
to play.

Speaker 2 (39:48):
There was not a great.

Speaker 1 (39:49):
Arcade where I grew up, so arcade games for me
were video. They had a couple arcade games at the
baseball car shop, and they always had a few at
the bowling alley and I I remember at the bowling alley,
and I'll throw one more out there and they we'll
take your phone calls at the bowling alley.

Speaker 3 (40:04):
By the way, start with Daniel in Missouri. He worked
at a bowling alley.

Speaker 1 (40:08):
When when you're at the bowling I remember, I remember,
remember the ball washer and they was at the Crappy Pizza.

Speaker 2 (40:15):
You were the ball washer.

Speaker 1 (40:19):
You want to be my ball washer, So I remember.
I'll give you just one phrase and you'd be like,
oh yeah, finish Mortal Kombat. Mortal Kombat came out and
you'd be like the next level facing you next. Everyone
put their quarter up because you're like, who's next level
and you had to figure out your fatalities.

Speaker 2 (40:37):
I'll give you a memory you probably forgot, Danny g
you'll remember this wait, hold on, was that a sound effactor?
I was Sam?

Speaker 1 (40:41):
That was io Sam. He's good at that. Yeah, that
was pretty good, Sam. It was a good impression. But
you would have your quarter up, like Rich said, but
there would be little.

Speaker 2 (40:52):
Little hood rat rug rat kids.

Speaker 1 (40:57):
That would be going around every machine just trying to
see through his quarters in the slots, trying to steal
your quarters. I mean till this day, if you see
a payphone, your checker. Yeah, so all right, let's go
to the phones. If you can go back on the
anniversary of pac Man nineteen eighty, go back and relived
this experience for the first time. What video game would
you choose forty five years ago? Daniel and Missouri? What's up,
buddy boy?

Speaker 12 (41:18):
Hey, what's going on?

Speaker 4 (41:19):
Fellas?

Speaker 13 (41:19):
I love you guys, thanks so much.

Speaker 14 (41:22):
All right, Yeah, so my answer has changed for about
nine times.

Speaker 9 (41:25):
Since I was listening to you guys.

Speaker 14 (41:27):
But I think like hanging on, like the single mom vibe,
and like I was an only child, so like games
were really important to.

Speaker 10 (41:33):
Me, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 14 (41:34):
Yeah, so, like, uh, I think for me John Madden's
Sports Talk Football with Joe Montana, I mean, who, God,
that was a changer for me, Like you could like
you were talking about Techno super Bowl.

Speaker 15 (41:47):
You could go in, you could change the rosters.

Speaker 14 (41:49):
You had all these statistics and everything. Man, It's just
it made life.

Speaker 15 (41:53):
Good for me.

Speaker 1 (41:54):
Yeah, playing at home was a big deal. Yeah, it
was a different level and you were obsessed with it
and it was a fun part of your childhood. Right,
But putting your initials up on the arcade, let's not
forget about the bragging right that was involved with your
initials making the top three, top five on the actual
arcade game. If I could put a little S A

(42:15):
C in there for Steven Anthony Cavino, the sack Man, those.

Speaker 2 (42:19):
Were bragging rights.

Speaker 1 (42:20):
Dude, I was the king of kom But you're stephen A, Steven,
I'm the real stephen A.

Speaker 8 (42:25):
There was also nothing like getting your skin of your
hand pinched playing Centipede. Oh talk about the battle scolars.

Speaker 1 (42:36):
Aboutely tell you a little later in our life, Dan,
I had a buddy who sliced his whole hand open
playing pub.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
What is it? What's the golf top gol gold? He
did like a slice.

Speaker 1 (42:51):
It's a different conversation for another day. But when Rich
and I first met started hanging out. We'd be at
local bars in Hoboken, New Jersey, playing like Buck Hunter
with Buck Hunter and Gold Team, the games they had there.

Speaker 2 (43:01):
Yeah, but that was a different era in a different time.

Speaker 3 (43:04):
That's like when we finally had a gun at home
for Duck Hunt, right right, A game A game changer.

Speaker 1 (43:10):
Hey, you want to blow your mind, Danny G Do
you know fun fact I've seen this meme. Everybody's had
Duck Hunt and has played duck Hunt, but the player
to control controlled the ducks.

Speaker 2 (43:20):
We never knew that. No one ever even thought about
it instructions out of them. Are you kidding?

Speaker 1 (43:26):
We really did. So let's go to the phones and continue.
If you could relive these first time moments. What game
would you pick? Let's say, how to John and Chico? Johnny,
what's up?

Speaker 2 (43:34):
Man? Actually? You know what?

Speaker 1 (43:37):
John wanted to talk NBA playoffs. But let's see if
he's got a video buddy.

Speaker 12 (43:42):
I got a video game. I spip more quarters on
Defender in my life, and my buddy, my god, we'd
go down to the piece of place. I mean, that
was our day, you know, and I'll never forget one
time we couldn't get our quarter out of the darn
machine and we hit that thing. You know, you have
to clunk it if it didn't go all the way through. Well,
I hit that thing in the dorm door came up
and there was more quarters and ball out. We just

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sat there and played that thing for about eight hours.

Speaker 2 (44:05):
It's funny.

Speaker 1 (44:05):
If you got if you kind of came out in
nineteen eighty one. By the way, have you got little kids?
My son is five, so we were recently at an
arcade and you know, he wants to do the race
card games.

Speaker 2 (44:15):
Yeah. You know, remember when you were a little kid,
how bad you were because.

Speaker 1 (44:18):
You're you would you would turn so extreme, like exactly
like you had no concept of like a gentle turn.

Speaker 2 (44:24):
That's how we felt playing pole position.

Speaker 5 (44:27):
Well, speaking of race car games, one of my first
memories was Cruising World, where you had both a sit
down and a stand up steering wheel, different versions.

Speaker 2 (44:35):
I also loved.

Speaker 5 (44:36):
The Simpsons video game in arcades, which was really hard
to beat.

Speaker 2 (44:40):
That was a tough one. I do remember that, being
a tough, youlick. Simpsons came out around the time of.

Speaker 5 (44:45):
Yeah, it was a little it was in the nineties
because I was, you know, I'm younger, Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (44:48):
Do you remember Rampage?

Speaker 1 (44:49):
Do you remember that game where like it was like
like a Godzilla and a King Conger just smashed in
the buildings And all right, maybe not so back to
the phones, you brought up something I just have to mention. Sure,
you and DBA, we're talking about putting your initials on
there and like the joy of that.

Speaker 2 (45:05):
That's why there was a bit.

Speaker 1 (45:06):
There was a baseball game on Nintendo that I thought
was revolutionary.

Speaker 2 (45:09):
No one loved it. I don't. I don't hear many
people talking about it.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
But the Stars Baseball Stars, you were able to create
your own players, like you could make your little league team,
and like this guy's fast, he has more power, like
you didn't have a baseball simulator. One thousand Baseball Stars
was a game that I thought was underrated. All right, well,
since you brought it up, and my answer was punch
out for Arcade and Nintendo. I remember clear as day.

(45:34):
I feel like I was in like fourth or fifth grade.
I feel I was like maybe in fifth grade. I
was in great school where I was hanging out a
great school friend's house and we're in his basement playing.

Speaker 2 (45:45):
Playing tiglesticks.

Speaker 1 (45:47):
Were playing, we were playing Tiglesticks, we were playing uh Nintendo,
and everyone's just trying to get in on the game.
And I remember he had a cartridge that was shaped
like no other cartridge in the collection and put it
in and it was a baseball game. And it's still
till this day my favorite game, and I have it
in a handheld version and I still play every other night.

(46:10):
But I remember seeing the fireworks when you hit a
home run, and that game, honestly is still my favorite.
RBI Baseball punch Out is my is my answer. But
RBA Baseball might be my favorite game, and I remember
seeing it for the first time.

Speaker 2 (46:22):
Like I know you'll, I know you disagree. I was,
is it rb I Baseball or RBI's Baseball. No, it's
rb I, It's rb I Baseball.

Speaker 1 (46:28):
I was. I was a bigger fan of Bases Loaded,
to be honest, I know you weren't. Bases Loaded had
better graphics. But the game sucked. So let's go back
to the calls. Uh, Steven and Spokane spoken, what up?

Speaker 2 (46:42):
Man?

Speaker 16 (46:45):
Yeah, so someone just said my answer the same sims,
But I'm gonna go with a backup in It's NFL
blitch fl bitch. That's great. You just throw the football
all the way down the field and score a touchhots.

Speaker 2 (46:59):
Yeah, Blitz was fun.

Speaker 1 (47:00):
On there's a football game I played all the time,
but it was like robots that played. It was an
arcade game. I'm trying trying to look that up. Thanks
for the call, man. Who else do we got? That
is our buddy Trip in Vegas? Who's talking about Mutant
League football?

Speaker 2 (47:13):
I'm gonna look it up, Sam. I'm a framed poster
of Mutant League football. Trip who we're gonna be hanging
out with in Vegas at CIRCA? What's up? Trip?

Speaker 10 (47:21):
What's up?

Speaker 17 (47:21):
Gentlemen? Yeah? I already got Friday and Saturday night off.
Looking forward to seeing y'all. Look forward to hearing y'all
in the morning too.

Speaker 2 (47:27):
Thank you so much for everything. Man. We're gonna have
a great time out there.

Speaker 17 (47:30):
I can't wait to see you guys, if I'm not
too busy repotting my plans anyway. So I got a couple.
My boy Danny g took mine, but there's a couple
more so. We used to go to a Laddin capitle.
What a great name for anarchy.

Speaker 2 (47:43):
I went to Alad Castle.

Speaker 17 (47:45):
Yeah, play two. I would say Karate Camp and then
Funhouse the pinball.

Speaker 1 (47:49):
Game be again very good in Bite Stop Judge White, Dude,
I used to love me some pretty good wife. Trust
we got you man, Adam and Bakersfield. What's up, Adam,
Pato and Rich?

Speaker 13 (48:05):
Hey, how's it going?

Speaker 1 (48:06):
So?

Speaker 13 (48:06):
I got a few You mentioned Dragons Player that was
classic ten yard fight. Spent a lot of quarters on
that Zaxon, which had like the three D graphics, had
a forty five degree angle, which was really cool.

Speaker 9 (48:20):
At the time.

Speaker 13 (48:21):
But I got to go back to probably nineteen eighty
two walking into the dimly lit arcade at the Valley
Plaza in Bakersfield, California. Crazy Climber and this is an
obscure game with two handles, and you're like a little
guy trying to climb up the skyscraper while they're throwing
pots at your head and King Kong at the top

(48:43):
with the wires. You guys, remember, I'm.

Speaker 2 (48:45):
Looking at it right now.

Speaker 1 (48:46):
I'm not sure I remember it, but yeah, looks it
looks like a you know, a classic game. I'm not
sure I remember that, but dude, you hit the nail
on the head. I was just talking about Home movies
that I've been looking through. Everything was so dimly lit
in the eighties man, and then and before that, I'm
sure there was.

Speaker 2 (49:01):
Some sketch things. Every home video is like, Yo, did
someone have the lights on or what?

Speaker 1 (49:07):
In contrary, I feel like anything from the nineties is
over lit. Probably we're too many neon lights. Yeah, we're
leaning into it because we lived through the dim dark ages. Yeah,
we overcompensated. It was like, yeah, it's all dim in
the eighties all I mean, we're ninety fluorescent lights now.
By the way, the reason we're talking about is today
marks the forty fifth anniversary pac Man made its debut

(49:29):
in video game fing j didn't hop on.

Speaker 2 (49:33):
Let's go to Dan and Casey. What's up Dan?

Speaker 4 (49:36):
Hey, you guys, I'm a good man.

Speaker 2 (49:38):
Have some good burn ends. What do we like? Jack Stacks?
And what was the other place?

Speaker 1 (49:43):
Man? Can't the other one?

Speaker 2 (49:45):
Oklahoma? Joe's Yeah, that's another good one.

Speaker 9 (49:48):
That's good.

Speaker 12 (49:49):
They're all good here.

Speaker 2 (49:50):
Yeah, I let me some burn INDs. What's up man?

Speaker 15 (49:52):
I used to work at Bowling Alley Extra money in
the arcade back in the day. It was con true,
and I don't want to be like I was saying, and.

Speaker 9 (50:03):
Give everything away. But the end of my time there
was double Dragon and second Double.

Speaker 2 (50:09):
Dragon was a big one. Double Dragon, Yeah, Dragon and Contra.
Every game.

Speaker 5 (50:15):
He called out, I was say, yes, yes, great, every
game he mentioned I loved.

Speaker 2 (50:21):
I agree, and you know I would say I dumped
it though. That's a good one. Yeah, No, I didn't
the Contra code. Do we all still remember that? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (50:30):
Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, be a
select start for two players.

Speaker 2 (50:33):
Let's go. What was the what was the Tyson code?

Speaker 1 (50:35):
Smarty Pants double O seven three seven three five nine
sixty three.

Speaker 2 (50:39):
That's to get to Mike d Man.

Speaker 5 (50:41):
You must have got all the girls I got. So
how does your brain remember that? You know, there's this
valuable information that Green can't hold because it's holding those codes.

Speaker 1 (50:48):
I'm a special boy, Sam, that's why. Yeah, and he
knows that. But the last book he read was Where
the Wild Things Are? Yeah, alright, Hoff, you're on in Maine.

Speaker 2 (50:55):
What's up? What up? Hoff?

Speaker 12 (50:57):
Hey, guys, this is an awesome topic.

Speaker 2 (50:59):
Thanks man.

Speaker 12 (51:00):
So I'm gonna go way back.

Speaker 4 (51:02):
We actually had an activision arcade right near where I grew.

Speaker 1 (51:07):
Up, and spy Hunter back in the day a line
across oyal slick dude smoke screens.

Speaker 11 (51:17):
D sports game was Our Tribals.

Speaker 1 (51:25):
Of course, I love that that was. That was a
bowling game, bowling alley game for me. That's where the basketballayers.
The dude had a mohawk, right and you just loud.
Our Rivals was a good one. I used to love
to play that game. And for the record, if you
keeping score at home, I was saying, was right. Mutant
Mutant League football was when I played a lot at
the Arcade too. I just forgot the name of it.

(51:47):
A great call, man, I appreciate. I feel like we
got all the good answers, even though the phones are
all lit. Could anyone name their greatest video game disappointment?

Speaker 2 (51:59):
Like, what game we like? This stinks because you just
weren't good at it, Danergy. For me, I was a
big wrestling fan as a kid.

Speaker 1 (52:06):
Hul Kogan, Macho Man, Andre the Giant, The first like
w w F wrestling game on Nintendo stunk. There was
one called Tag Team Wrestling for Nintendo was stunk. I
was a big Arcade matt Mania fan. At the Arcade.

Speaker 3 (52:19):
I remember everyone, all the kids at school talking about
that game. Paper Boy and I'm like, oh, I can't
wait to try this.

Speaker 2 (52:25):
And then I was like, I didn't like it.

Speaker 3 (52:30):
Doom. I took my butt to the Star Wars stand
up arcade game. Remember that one you had to drop
the missile at the perfect time?

Speaker 2 (52:41):
What about the Do I remember all of them? Typical age?
I love Trono one.

Speaker 1 (52:46):
Tron looked really cool. I always like was intimidated by it,
scared of that game. Wasn't there some type of a
short docu series or documentary about the et video game
and how they're all buried somewhere? Yeah, New Mexico is
notoriously known to be the worst Atari game ever, and
it sort of like ended the whole phase and they
ended up over manufacturing them and they buried them in

(53:08):
a in a what would you even call it?

Speaker 2 (53:11):
So you mean in you know, a million years?

Speaker 1 (53:13):
When when when civilization's gone, some new civilizations, because.

Speaker 2 (53:18):
They're gonna be like e TV, you know, who's kind
of forgotten.

Speaker 1 (53:22):
Like like I was saying, before Super Marios everything, I
thought pac Man would be right because pac Man was
the the iconic character.

Speaker 2 (53:33):
Froger was pretty big too. Back then.

Speaker 1 (53:36):
Froger was huge. Yeah, a big, big game. I would
say the faces of video games. If you were to
talk about generations like you know, you could you could
do the faces of quarterbacks in the NFL or you know,
NBA stars through the generations.

Speaker 2 (53:49):
I would say that like a Mount Rushma.

Speaker 1 (53:50):
I would say, like pac Man, Super Mario Sonic, and
then it just became more like first person like call
of duty and like those type of things.

Speaker 2 (53:57):
But as far as who's that fourth, that's a good one.
I don't know who the fourth is.

Speaker 8 (54:01):
But to your point about Froger, I felt like Froger
was like pac Man was one, and Froger and Donkey
Kong were like the silver and Bronze.

Speaker 2 (54:10):
Yeah, you know, like of that era.

Speaker 8 (54:12):
Just I mean, obviously Super Mario bigger than those two,
but I felt like Frogger and Donkey Kong were the
I agree, you know to man.

Speaker 1 (54:19):
And that was the first time we were introduced to
Mario and Donkey Kong.

Speaker 2 (54:23):
I was gonna say, maybe for.

Speaker 1 (54:25):
Lack of someone else, pac Man, Mario Sonic, maybe unless
you can think of something else.

Speaker 2 (54:30):
Donkey Kong also appeared in the Mario Brothers movie.

Speaker 1 (54:33):
If you saw that with your kids, fantastic, like Donkey
Kong's part of that Mario world now, So I don't know,
it's an interesting one because're right, it's got to be
pac Man, Mario and Sonic. Those are like the the
faces of of different brands and everything. Dan Byern, I'm

(54:55):
sure you remember Danny G. You'll probably remember Iowa Sam.
You were busy playing earthwor in Jim or or whatever.
You're playing Marble, Marble Madness or whatever. You're like the
worm gym. But when Double Dribble, by the way he came,
he has no partner. It's just I thought it was
like someone an Earthworm Gym when swirm Rich messed it up.

(55:17):
But do you guys remember seeing for the first time
the epitome of awesome graphics when Double Dribble Double Drill,
when it went into the.

Speaker 2 (55:26):
Slam dunk mode, you were like, it was almost.

Speaker 1 (55:29):
Like the tech Bobul. It was almost similar to the
tech Bobil High five, but it was even cooler because
it was like completely changed. The slam dunk went in
and you would miss, you would break the slam dunk
and the graphics at that time. When you see him now,
it's laughable. You see with your kids, like kids, this
was what was considered amazing, which.

Speaker 2 (55:51):
Is I love.

Speaker 1 (55:52):
The graphic of Tom Brady from a couple of years
ago is like, this is how long Tom Brady's been
playing and it was his first football video game, and
then it was like, you know, Madden twenty three or whatever,
the Nobel Dribble dribble. So let's wrap it up with
your phone calls little crossfire, which means why say your name,
say what's up?

Speaker 2 (56:12):
And make it snappy? All right? What's your game? L
pass o'manny? What's up? Man?

Speaker 4 (56:18):
Carkid was dig Doug.

Speaker 13 (56:20):
Nintendo Does at Home was two of them, Batman and
teenage Mutan, Ninka Turtle where he.

Speaker 12 (56:24):
Was all four Turtle.

Speaker 2 (56:26):
That was cool. Ninja Turtles was Chris and Columbus. What's
up man?

Speaker 11 (56:30):
All right? Love watch Man. You had mentioned the robot
football game. I believe it was called Cyberball and you
could upgrade your quarterback door very fast. But he would
smoke s.

Speaker 1 (56:43):
I'm looking that up now because I do remember playing
a lot of these games and the previous caller that said,
oh yeah, yes, you know what. Now I'm confused if
I played cyber Ball or mutant League Football. They're like
the same game. But the call, I said, dig Doug.
It made me think of Cubert and how big Hubert
was at one point.

Speaker 2 (57:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (57:01):
But you know, if I had that one wish Danny
g to go back in time, it wouldn't be my answer.

Speaker 2 (57:07):
It would still be punching.

Speaker 1 (57:08):
It'd have to be like an iconic mouth dropping moment
of no Way Ray in Northern CALLI Hey Ray, Hey guys,
I just got.

Speaker 12 (57:17):
To shout you out.

Speaker 9 (57:17):
Rich.

Speaker 11 (57:18):
You dated the girl from the Threat Farm documentary.

Speaker 2 (57:21):
I did a lot of girls, man, Yeah, I.

Speaker 9 (57:23):
Mean I didn't work, dude.

Speaker 10 (57:26):
My game was the Simpson.

Speaker 1 (57:27):
Arcade game was Yeah, you know, I was saying, a
lot of people are rob Indiana, what's up?

Speaker 2 (57:36):
Whoops? Oh, by the way, I show you dated Jamel Hill.
That's pretty wild.

Speaker 16 (57:41):
Being the kind of the milestone. I'm fifty six. I
remember the launch of ball video games, but I remember
Pong being really the first thing that stood out. And
then the Atari twenty six hundred comes out, the clicko,
the in television, and you start getting you know, space evators,
asteroids and missile command I remember I went to a party,
a birthday party at a pizza place, and they said

(58:02):
there's gonna be games there, so I think at Bozo Buckets, Monopoly,
I never heard of the video game. I walk in
this back room and I see, you know, a pinball
machine and these things that I never saw before. This
was before pac Man, but Space Invaders was the one
that really kind of changed and seigue the whole games.
You know, we don't think about it much anymore, but
when pac Man came out, that was that was the

(58:22):
game changer of all time. Everything started to go with that.
But before that, I'd had to put Pong in Space
Evaders on that Mount Rushmore, followed by pac Man and
then everything you just move forward.

Speaker 1 (58:32):
Yeah, Space Evaders was definitely a huge game. Phoenix was
very similar to that. My first Atari game though, jaw
dropping because to me it was like, oh my god,
I could play games at home. I was playing Atario
twenty six hundred and Commando Raid. I thought it was
like the most amazing thing I'd ever seen. Well, we
are running too late, so I just want to say,
you're allowed to name the game, and that's it.

Speaker 2 (58:53):
Name the game and that's it.

Speaker 1 (58:54):
Robin Indiana, go, let's go Pitfall, Pitfall in Vegas.

Speaker 4 (59:00):
Wh what about seven twenty first Kateboard movie.

Speaker 2 (59:04):
There you go, Matt Louisiana.

Speaker 9 (59:07):
Okay, So since I got to be quick, what was
the original name of Soda Popinski in the stand up
arcade Super punch Out?

Speaker 1 (59:15):
Oh no, man, I only know Soda Popinski. I never
got that far in the arcade. What's his name?

Speaker 9 (59:20):
That was in the that was the Cold War Russians
were the enemy. It was Vodka Trunsky.

Speaker 1 (59:25):
I have that. Yeah, good trace. Filling in for Dan
Patrick tomorrow. So wake up with us and real quick,
right quick. Mike Piazza stood up for Juan Soto Rich
any thoughts on that Juan Soto Met's legend. Mike Piazza

(59:47):
offers advice to Juan Soda. This is according to s
n Y, you gotta rely on your teammates to have
your back. Piazza says, getting booed in the beginning made
him better and it's a right of passage of playing
in New York. Well as of now, Soto's still pounting.
But yeah, will he come around. You have to believe
he will.

Speaker 2 (01:00:06):
He said.

Speaker 1 (01:00:07):
There's an adjustment period. He said, it's a character builder.
When Piazza first became a Met, he was booed. People
thought he was not enthused to be there. He still
wanted to be in Los Angeles with the Dodgers and
the Sunshine, and people were in the case and people
were like, yo, Piazza, boo know the difference, and it's
up being one of the faces of the franchise of
all time.

Speaker 2 (01:00:27):
And the same about Keith.

Speaker 1 (01:00:28):
Hernandez so winning the way the Mets are winning now
so far. The proof in the pudding was that in
the mid eighties, when the Mets started turning things around,
Keith reluctantly went to the Mets and everyone's like, you
just want to be here. He's been part of the
franchise for forty years. Mike Piazza came to the Mets
and led them a year later to back to back
playoff appearances and a World Series.

Speaker 2 (01:00:51):
Clearly there's a pattern.

Speaker 1 (01:00:53):
A star comes here and if he struggles, those booze
are a rite of passage. I'm Juan Soto is just fine, okay,
So we're not gonna have time to talk about mommy
Daddy makeovers and Britney Mahomes and things like that. It
was weird though that won. Sooto looked at seven straight
pitches yesterday. Though I will say that I think he's
mentally just trying to find his mojo or something. And

(01:01:14):
you know, maybe we'll talk about that on Dan Patrick's.
We have that extra hour because on over Promised today,
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Speaker 2 (01:01:35):
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Speaker 1 (01:01:37):
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Speaker 2 (01:01:46):
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Speaker 1 (01:01:46):
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Speaker 2 (01:01:50):
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Speaker 2 (01:02:09):
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Speaker 2 (01:02:32):
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