December 28, 2023 • 42 mins
Covino & Rich are filling in for the great DP Show & continue their Old-School topic of the week! Sports nerds vs. regular nerds! Callers from across the country weigh-in on the biggest nerd of all-time. Plus, the guys debate whether or not Patrick Mahomes is still the top player in the NFL & if the Chiefs can flip a switch!
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Speaker 3 (01:55):
We do this every Thursday on our show when fifty
hits on the clock, we throw it back on the Thursday,
and today's Joe Manganello, Joe Manga blah blah blah, Joe Manganello,
Magic Mike's birthday. He's forty seven, turns forty seven today
And for the past few weeks. We've been debating here
on the show what's worse a sports nerd or an
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actual nerd?
Speaker 4 (02:16):
And you know, he fits in both categories because he's
a huge Pittsburgh sports fan, lives and dies, stealers and
all things Pittsburgh sports. Well, at the same time, he's
like a Dungeons and Dragons guy. But it goes down
to the radar because he's also Magic Mike. So I
guess if you're Magic Mike and you look like that
and the ladies love you, you're allowed to also like
Dungeons and Dragons.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
I guess, so abs cancels out all your nerdy interests.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I guess, so right, I guess. So. Yeah, he's a
cool dude. He really is.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
He's a man's man, absolutely, But it poses the question,
you know, on a throwback Thursday because Rich says there's
one answer.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Yeah, because we were talking about sports nerds and actual nerds,
because Danny g had just taken his kids to Disney
for the first time and said, the nerds that are
hanging around like the Star Wars attractions, Danny just quickly
tell the little anecdote you told me off the EDG
during the break.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Yeah, So Rise of the Resistance. By the way, I
like Star Wars, but everything in moderation.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
Right.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Rise of the Resistance is an amazing ride. I don't
know how many years it took them to put that together.
Everything to scale amazing. But we get inside and at
the beginning of the ride, they tell you where the
Resistance where the base is located, and they say, no,
matter what, don't tell enemy forces where the base is.
And this guy is with a couple of buddies in
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front of us, and they have matching Star Wars jackets on.
He turns and looks at his friends and he said,
if this was real life, I wouldn't tell him even
if they tortured me.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Oh he was dead. I swear he was dead.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Serious reason Dad nerd and in like ten years now,
I feel like it's in ten years where nerd is
the new cool.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
So we live in the upside down.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
And also the custom two hundred dollars lightsabers. I mean
people go all out there and they have the sleeves
like the protective cases for these lightsabers. And my wife
went up to a park attendant and said, where's the
nearest bathroom, and the character the Star Wars character said,
I don't work here.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
I'm just a nerd. I don't work here. I'm just
dressed like this.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
The guy said, So you know, listen, you can say
two hundred dollars or a lightsaber is weird.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
You could also say two hundred dollars for a jersey
is weird? Right, an official jersey.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Someone might say you were in a jersey with another
man's name on it for a couple hundred bucks.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
So listen this. Do we think we're in the game?
Though I don't think we're in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I think some people do think they're But anyway, there
are sports herds or regular herds. But the question we
posed this morning when we were having our coffee getting
ready for the show, we said, is there a number
one nerd of all time?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
And I said ultimate nerd?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Yeah, And I said, there's a clear number one, and
I don't think it could be contested. So that's where
I say to you, Fox Sports Radio Nation, change my mind.
Eight seven seven nine nine on Fox by far, the
number one nerd in the history of TV, movie, sports,
anything has to be the one and only.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Did I do that your I'd say you rich are
close second. Steve mother E f and Erkle. There is
no one even close.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
He's by far the most famous nerd in the history
of entertainment, all right now, the same way you might say,
I went to debate because the dude owned like a
decade of network TV.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
On TG if you said.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
You said your sister used to have an Erkele doll,
that you would pull a string and then it would.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Be me, guess what rich more than just my sister, Like,
millions of people had that dolls. So that's why it's
it's a hard one to debate. But we could throw
some other honorable mentions or or potential winners out there.
I'm thinking, give you know, the same way you'd probably say,
are Pal Henry Winkler.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
The fons is synonymous with cool.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
If you wore to say, name the coolest character ever,
you might say not my generation, But the answer is Fonsie.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
The fons Yeah, Arthur fonz I.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Think the answer by far. If you said biggest nerd,
no one comes close to Steve Rkle. Jalia White, a
character much like Fonzie that wasn't designed to be the
star of the show but ended up becoming the star
of the show.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Now nerd to me is also very synonymous with the eighties,
and Family Matters is the nineties, so I'm feeling my
answer may have a little more weight to it, okay,
because again it's very eighties. And by the way, I
looked this up recently, I think the first sign of
nerd was used in a.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Doctor Seuss book look it up.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
First time was ever published an American history nerd was
one of his weird characters, so he gets credit for,
I think, even coming up with the word or publishing it.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
But if eighties is so synonymous with nerds, nerds, you know, and.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Revenge of the Nerds, my answer immediately goes to maybe
Anthony Michael Hall or would you say he's a geek
because he his character was labeled geek in sixteen Candles.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
He was the geek.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
He was the nerd, So I'm gonna throw him out
there too as honorable mention because he played the nerd
in several John Hughes movies and was also supposed to
be the nerd Ducky and Pretty in Pink, which went
to John Crier. So I'm thinking quintessential eighties nerd was
Anthony Michael Hall.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Well, when you Google nerd believe it or not. Pretty quick,
Steve Erkele comes up, iconic character clad in suspenders, arguably
unfashionable glasses, high water jeans.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Are you describing Steve Erkle?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Ravil, Reddenbacker, nazal ly antics, everything about Steve Rkele like
you could throw the allergies in there.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Like did I knew that? Like everything about Ercle was
a nerd? You know?
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Someone hit us up on Twitter at Covin on Rich
Someone said, you know, because the show was popular, and
as Kavino pointed out, nerds, so it became cool in
the two thousands. Yeah, Jim Parson Sheldon from Big Bang
Theory might be on this list.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
The entire cast of that show. Yeah except Kelly. Yeah,
Kelly Cuoco was like the one non nerd of that show.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
So who comes to mind?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox, we're trying to
declare a winner of sorts on the throwback And by
the way, we're also gonna talk this hour about who
is the current greatest player in the NFL right now?
Is it still Patrick Mahomes Because that was the answer
for a long time, So stick around for.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
That, herd. What about uh, Carlton. Oh, oh, that's a
good one. Spot, That's a really good one. Carlton. It's
not unusual. He's a nerd. Nerd dance right, oh man,
I mean his whole wardrobe. Think about it. He was.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
He was a young black dude in la who lived
in a rich neighborhood. And yeah, I mean, think of it.
The whole dynamic was Will was cool and Carlton was
wearing sweater vests, and he tried to make Carlton cool.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
For the whole murder of cornball, as Rob Parker would say.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Cornball a cornball maybe that Uh.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
And by the way, you're right, Doctor Seuss coined the
term nerd sixty years ago.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
I just happened to see that recently. And speaking of
recent again, I'm in New Jersey visiting the fam and
my parents had on Grease last night because my daughter
wanted to watch Grease.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Just throwing it out there, because no one would say it.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Eugene, Eugene, he's because that's a you know, that's a
very famous play. If you were casted as Eugene, you know,
you were the nerd of the play. You sarcasted as
the nerd. So he was like the quintessential high school nerd.
I'm just doing it out there, and I'm not saying
he's the answer. I'm just saying he's that guy.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Yo cove I was the answering the studio line. So
I don't know if you guys mentioned him, but I
think of Lewis Skulnick, Oh Revenge of the Nerds. Yeah,
growing up, he was the leader of the nerds.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
He's the leader of their nerds. Point dexter, point dexter.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
That's like, you know what, They're all great names, all
great nerds.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
But do any of them really rival Steve Erkele.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
I hate to like agree with rich, but he makes
a really strong case.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
He had every quality. I mean, Steve Rkle quintessential nerd.
But there are honorable mentions. Uh, you brought up John
Cryer as ducky, but what about two and a half Men, Like,
think about it. Charlie Sheen was like the playboy womanizer,
like cool guy, and John Cryer was his his nerdy bro.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
I got one based on what you just said that
no one's gonna say, so I'll just say it.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Skippy from Family Times he was a nerd, right.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
He was obsessed with Mallet, Dwight from the Office, Dwight.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
But do they any of them rival Like Erkle was
the font. Remember you brought up the fons as the
definition of cool. The Fawns was also a side character
that became the main character, much like Erkele. But Erkle
did it on the flip.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Side of that. He made the nerd the main.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Character of that show. He was supposed to be an
ancillary character.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Now we we we did point that out.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Now when you talk about Nerds Camino, we say Erkle's
top of the heap. I mean, he's He's the He's
the Michael Jordan of Nerds.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
He's Mount Rushmore man. He might be undebatable.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
You know, in typical fashion, everyone loves to do their
Mount Rushmore of everything. Meanwhile, none of us have ever
been to Mount Rushmore, but everyone loves to do their
Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
So you have Erkele. There three others. I think Dwight
from the.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Office, like Spot said, just based on the haircut alone
and the vibe of Dwight, Dwight's on Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
With Erkele, you might put Carlton up there. And I'm
trying to think of this. Sheldon and Sheldon is that it.
It's generational, man.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
I think a lot of younger guys would say, Sheldon
from Big Bang Theory, the whole show was about nerds. Spot,
But then you're leaving off Skulnick, So then you're not
You're you're sort of isolating like eighties.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Dudes who grew up with Revenge of the Nerds.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Hold on, I'm thinking of when I'm picturing like eighties
nineties nerds in my head. Spot Cavino's a couple of
years older than us, so he always loves to say, yeah,
I was out getting moody when you guys were watching tgif.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
I mean it's true.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Sure, I'm sitting at home watching Family Matters, Full House
and step by Step.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Spot, wasn't that susannsum Son, Yeah, the son was a
huge names his son on Step by Step, That little
he was a little deep I forget his name. All
the kid from Twilight's on the movie.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Yeah, yeah, maybe not popular enough, but he did come
to mind for me. I'm like, yeah, because the whole
point was, how could it be such a nerd when
his mom was like, you know, the hot Suzanne Summers.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
All right eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. Who
else could even rival the goat? Look, there's lots of
There's lots of goats, right, some are undebatable. Erkle might
be in that Gretzky sort of echelon of nerds.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Hard to debate.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Other sports shows might debate, Uh, you know Jordan Lebron
and you know your typical a Lei and Tyson and
Gretzky and Jerry Rice or Randy Moss. No, no, no,
here on comno, Rich, who's the nerd goat?
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Who's the girl?
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Yeah, the goat of the nerds, because again, is Joe
mangan You could make a.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Case that he is because he still pulls premium.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Tale as the as the kids say, Rich, Joe Manganello
is a sports nerd.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
He is a Dungeons and Dragons guy. It's his birthday,
that's why we bring this up.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
And he's he's just too handsome to fall into the
category when your magic Mike and your ex wife is
Sophia Vagara and you already have a beautiful new way. Now,
Manganello is too cool to He's like a hot chick
that says, I'm really just the nerd. Yeah, Joe Manganello
being into dungeons and Dragons is like a hot chick
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that puts on glasses and pigtails.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
And she's like, I'm a nerd, and you're like, you're
not a nerd. You're just a hot chick to put
her hair in a you know.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Up exactly, throw on some glasses. It's like that's that movie.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
She's all that.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
And Freddy Prince Junior takes off the girls of Glasses
and he's like, see.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Rachel Lee Cook, Mike in North Carolina will start with you.
Covino and Rich filling it for Dan Patrick. Figure mix
it up a little bit today. Best nerd who comes
to mind?
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Yeah, I mean, come on, Screech, leave off Screech.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Yeah. It's like Rich's favorite show.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
The late great Dustin Diamond, who you know he squabbled
with that cast in his final days.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
But yeah, Screech was a great nerd. Screech was packing heat.
Though a lot of people don't know that. He ain't
a porn or something. Rest in peace.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
But you know what, Rich, he may be the solid
number two and sometimes the solid number two, it's better
than number one.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Stop it no.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
But if you're saying, ercles to go, I think I
screeched out right up there if we're if you really
want to go the I rolling route of a Mount Rushmore,
which I brought up, so yeah, I think screeches on that,
Nick Kope, What do you got buddy?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Well?
Speaker 7 (15:47):
I was thinking, do we need some female representation on
this Mount Rushmore?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Because?
Speaker 7 (15:52):
Uh so for me, my favorite cartoon as a kid
Scooby Doo.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
What about Velma Velma? Oh good one? And on that?
You know, is that your number one choice if you
had to with a cartoon?
Speaker 5 (16:04):
Oh hey, hey, Nick? On that note, how about Lisa Simpson?
Oh legendary?
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Uh huh, she was a nerd too, you're right about that?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Uh again, back to the phone calls, I'm gonna throw
one out there and be in between because no one's
gonna say it. But if you were a big MTV
kid like I was growing up, and you loved Van
Halen and eighties rock like that, the Hot for Teacher
video was as famous as it got and they depicted
like all the cool kids in school who turned into
Van Halen. And then there was Waldough sit down, Waldo, Waldo.
(16:39):
Waldo was the nerd and he was just nervous to
be in school.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
He was the guy I thought you were gonna say
the VJ Kennedy. No, yeah, yeah, yeah, Kennedy was a nerd.
You're right? What about uh?
Speaker 4 (16:49):
What's your face? From New Girl? Zoey Deschanel wasn't her
whole character? She was a nerd jess on that show
New Girl?
Speaker 2 (16:57):
What about the uh?
Speaker 4 (16:58):
She who, by the way, turned into a pretty curvy,
good looking young woman the daughter on Modern.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Family Ariel Winters.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Actually, she played the nerd on the show and then
you know, grew up and now she's uh.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
And in that in that vein to Panga Boy meets Girl,
she was a nerd. She was all into academics.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Rich Fox Sports Radio Nation.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
I consider him to be one of my heroes and
one of the baddest, most suckers around and ever in
the world of comedy, true true badass.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
But would you consider pee Wee Herman a nerd? The
late great Peewee? You know what? I think? He just
stole a callers answer. You know what, you know the phone.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Let's go to Lisa and Floria, Lisa your own coven
on rich In for Dan Patrick, what's out?
Speaker 6 (17:48):
Lisa to totally did steal my thunder?
Speaker 8 (17:51):
I'm har of the Soma era.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
But Herman started it all.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
You know you're talking to U my co host Steve
Cavino here, biggest pee Wee Herman fan. I know, rest
in peace, pee Wee. But yeah, he was. He was legend.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
But what was great about Pee Wee Herman is like
he was kind of cool. He just dressed like a nerd, right,
Like he just but he thought he was cool. He
was funny, and he thought he was a ladies man.
He was this in Dottie.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Remember, She's like, come on, pee Wee, let's just go
out on the day. And he's like what, he didn't
have time for that.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
He was in his zone. Yeah, by the way, how
did Pee Wee Herman not have time for Dottie? He
was doing magic tricks. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Let's let's take one more phone call now, we'll take
the rest when we come back. James and Wisconsin.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
What's up? James, Yo, James, hang on here, we got
a full board. Hang on, hang on, you know where
we go?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
There we go, James, James, Hey, guys, thanks for checking
the goll real quick.
Speaker 6 (18:44):
I kind of got soul on the peewee. But I
got a couple more for you. I got this guy's
kind of a whack job and got a lot of trouble.
But I got Jared from Subway and then the sports guy.
I got Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
You know Kirk Cousins. Kirk Cousins a great nerd.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Yeah, Jared for Subway disqualified because he's a creep and
in prison. But when he was the spokesman, before you
realize what a piece of garbage he was, he was
a nerd.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Yeah, he was a nerd that one.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
You see what a nerd he is in Quarterback on Netflix,
like a lovable nerd. Would you say Eli Manning is
a big time sports nerd? At least I thought Eli's
in the category of googoon. What about Dobb's a huge nerd.
Dobbs is an he's the past. Yeah, Dobbs and the nerds.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
A scientifical nerd. I haven't hit on one.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Very unexpected there in specific categories of like they're athletic nerds.
Speaker 7 (19:40):
This guy, this guy, his love of dungeons and dragons,
which I also love, is very extremely well documented. Vin
Diesel Vin diesels like loves dungeons and dragons and family.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
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Spots on the videos at Covino and Rich, We're CNR
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Speaker 2 (21:33):
We're still gonna talk some sports here, I hope.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
So we still got to talk about the Chiefs and
even though they're struggling, is Patrick mahonmee still the best
player in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
That's lot to get.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Great questions, So you know, I want to get to
that quick, so let's go rapid fire.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
But I would say, in tribute to Joe Manganello's birthday,
he's the ultimate nerd. He's sort of a crossover nerd
because he's like a sports nerd and an actual nerd.
But who's the ultimate nerd? I think what we've discovered
here Rich is really interesting. Steve Erkele is the Jordan,
the Ali, the Gretzky, the all time goat of nerds.
(22:13):
Family Matters ran from eighty nine to ninety eight. Jim
Parsons made a valiant attempt, but no one's out nerd.
It's Steve Rkele, Pee Wee Herman's there, Carlton's there.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
I mean they did screech dirty.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
The dude wore a clown outfit and a beanie, so
he's on that list too.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Is there as well?
Speaker 4 (22:31):
But you know what I was looking at what was
going on today, I'm like, oh, who celebrates a birthday?
And I saw manganello and I'm thinking, poor guy grew
up with a bunch of combination Christmas birthday gifts, like
Danny G who celebrated a birthday yesterday.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Hey, it's your birthday and Christmas.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
But Erkele was the ultimate nerd, I mean the ultimate
Carlton again, he was more of a cornball, you know.
I think if you're handsome and you're good at sports
is sort of cancels out your nerdy qualities a little bit,
which makes Erkele on that upper echelon. Because have you
seen the story of Pacers, Miles Turner, Danny G. You
(23:08):
probably have seen this, Like in his obsession with Star
Wars and legos.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
Oh yeah, remember he walked into Star Wars night recently
dressed as Han Solo, and he had a very attractive
prince Princess Lea with him.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
So when you're rolling with attractive Princess Lea's and you're
in the NBA, even though you really are a nerd
and you're spending your spare time.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
With legos, it sort of cancels it out of Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Like, like you said before the break, if you're an
attractive woman and you're like, I'm a nerd, it's like, no,
if you're freaking hot, you're not a nerd. I don't
care what you Oh you like, oh you like you know,
nerd like Harry Potter, but you know.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
You're a hawker that likes nerdy stuff. You're not a nerd.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
Right.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
By the way, one of my biggest pet peeves when
a good looking girl's like, oh my god, I'm such
a nerd.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
I'm like, stop it, stop it. Steve Merkle's a nerd.
You're not a nerd.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Rapid fire through the phones will start with Joey and Tampa.
You're on with Covenon rich In for DP. We're gonna
talk some chiefs in a second ball. Let's go through
the phone calls. Hey, Joey.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Hey, I shot right, but I was about to say,
I was gonna say screeched, but I.
Speaker 6 (24:14):
Was gonna say minkis from boy Beach World two.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Yeah, I think that was the equation minkus. You know
how like nowadays, I feel like every sitcom or show
on Netflix or Hulu needs like the funny, sassy gay dude.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Back in the day, I think it was the nerd.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Shows today don't have a nerd for the most part,
because the nerds sut of mainstream.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Well props to Julia White because what we're learning here
is that no one did it better than him.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
He's the king, uh Jake, And I well, what's up, Jake?
Speaker 7 (24:41):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (24:42):
What about Back to the Future with George McFly's a
great one.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Catch your damn hands, you know that.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
I mean, George McFly is part of a legendary trilogy,
not just one movie, right does that's got to compete
with family Matters? George was George McFly might be one
of the best answers. How did I not think of that?
Speaker 2 (25:09):
And his name's Big Fly McFly god such a great.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
And by the way, the counter he had the counter
of one of the best bullies ever Biff, so I
get his nerd. Oh, that's a good one. Brian in Arkansas,
Kevin on Retch, what's a buddy?
Speaker 6 (25:25):
Pre dating all of this, and I think he was
the original nerd.
Speaker 7 (25:29):
How about Jerry Lewis?
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Jerry was Jerry Lewis and the nerd or just a
peculiar fellow, sort of like odd.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
He played well, he played the nutty professor.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
It's kind of nerdy, very I mean, very nerdy before
a bottle glasses like he you know, had the buck
teeth a lot of his characters.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
I wanted to add an underrated TV nerd one of
the reasons I love my wife one of the many reasons.
You know that, what's the one TV show that you
go to sleep with it on in the background? For us,
it's King of Queen. When she told me that, I'm like,
that's the one I have on in the background too.
Spence Patton Oswalt, it's a really good nerdy.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Patton Oswalt's a good nerd for sure. And he also
played a sports nerd in the movie. Yeah, that's right.
Can I get a real life nerd? Mentioned Zuckerberg the
biggest nerd of them all? I mean, so is Bezos.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
They're all nerds, billions of billions of dollars.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Look at a picture, doesn't doesn't take the way of
the fact that.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
No offense to the balding guys out there. But look
at the photos of a balding Jeff Bezos when Amazon
was on its come up, and he's in his off
swell little office. He's got the like George Costanza haircut.
It's like, I'm Jeff Bezos.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Now.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
The dude's on yachts and he looks like a villain
in Austin Powers movie.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Be Powerful, and you've made your billions. It cancels out
the nerdiness a little bit. I don't know.
Speaker 7 (26:52):
Elon Musk sometimes will pose with like flint lock pistols
and he's got that god awful bomber jacket with the
fur around. It is just, oh my god, awful, awful,
so hard money. He had like a plastic pistol from
like a cyberpunk game.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Money.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
Money could try to disguise the nerd, but sometimes you
can't shed it.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
You can't.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
William in Virgin You'll take two more William and Wade.
I think we just talked. No, Mike, we'll go to
William what's up William?
Speaker 6 (27:17):
Hey, guys, I would I think it's from the early nineties,
but it was a kid in play and I think
I think it was class act and kid plays the
nerd guy and then they switched personalities or they switch
names and try to go with that and thendgress. Yes, yeah,
(27:38):
yeah for a female that movie, she's all that where
she's the huge nerd and then they try to give
her the makeover.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
That's the funniest example ever because Rachel Lee Cook was
smoking hot.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
They took off her glasses and let her hair down.
Come on, uh, thank you, will Mike and Michigan. All right,
let's go away. We'll go to wait in Indiana. Wade,
what's up, buddy?
Speaker 2 (27:58):
What's up? Wade?
Speaker 6 (28:00):
I got a U A deep cut? Uh pre Erkle
head of the class ingen.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Oh yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Yeah, absolutely remember that. That's a good one. The thing is,
it's a great honorable mention. But he does not rival Erkle.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Like.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
That's what we really established here, is man, that dude
was the goat of nerds and rich I'm also thinking
like you're again, because when you think of nerds, you
think of like the eighties, your eighties baseball cards, any
nerdy ones come to mind. I'm like, you know, even
though he's a badass in the big leagues, like Kent Takolvy,
always looked like a big nerd.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Oh I was grown up.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
I always thought, I mean, I know he was a
great player, but I always thought there was no one nerdier.
My dad would always make the reference to look at
that guy, looks like Kurt Rambis.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Yeah, you guys a big nerd. You know, he was
a scrappy guy. Yeah, but he looked like a nerd dude.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
If my dad and I were playing some basketball to
park or something and some nerdy guy was shooting hoops,
my dad be like, who is that guy?
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Who? Guy? Who was he?
Speaker 4 (28:57):
Kurt Rambus, Kurt Rampas is a great it's sports nerd
sports nerds. But if we if we will, we'll wrap
up Mike in Michigan and then I think we could
put together a four. What's up, Mike?
Speaker 6 (29:09):
Hey, I got one last one here, Fellas. He's old school,
so your so bad thing worked? What about Barney fight Show.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
That's a good one.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
But he was so smooth as mister that it almost
cancels out. He was he was in there though, all right,
So if we had to pick four, you'd go erkle screech, Carlton, Carlton.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
I feel like there was one other that someone named,
oh and Revenge of the I know.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
I think we have to top five then George McFly. Dude,
McFly is timeless and he like grew out of it
once he punched Biff. His life changed.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
So I think rkle screech, Carlton, erkele screech, Carlton McFly
change our mind at Covino and Rich Now I do
want to talk to some Kansas City chief because I
don't know, it's almost like it's almost a situation of
I'm not gonna not believe in them until they lose.
(30:10):
Like it's you know, every year, Cavino, you and I
joke about how playoffs come around, and.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
We could talk all year, all year.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Yet come crunch time, sometimes the same few superstars rise
to the occasion, and I would not be shocked. I
don't care if they're nine and six and stumble into
the playoffs at ten and seven or eleven and six,
it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
There's still the Chiefs. There's still the Chiefs. So it's
a two part.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Question, and he's still Mahomes, but he's a frustrated Mahomes.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
This level of from You're right about that. We have
never seen a six lost Mahomes. You know, We've never
seen also a on the road in the playoffs Mahomes.
He's never played a road playoff game.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
You've never seen a Mahomes who doesn't seem to trust
his team the way he a few years.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
By the way, if you are new to Coveno and Rich,
Mahomes will be on our show next Tuesday afternoon. It's
going to be can't miss radio.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
We always do. Frustrated Mahomes is the best Mahomes some
NFL trivia on Tuesday for some prizes. So join us.
So here's your two part question.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
We'll take your feedback and it's part A the question
Part one Part A either.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
One have you.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
Have you decided that Mahomes regardless of the struggles. If
not Mahomes, who would you say is the best player
in the NFL?
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Right now? That's part easy answer, I really do save it.
Part one of the question is if not Mahomes, because
I still feel I don't care about the receivers and
the struggles and everything going on If you were to
ask me right now who's the best player in the national.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
I have my answer, And we're also gonna talk some Chiefs,
and I want to know where everyone feels like this
ends up for them. Do you trust Andy Reid, Mahomes
and Kelsey and the core of that team enough that
company off time, maybe experience, maybe stepping it up when
it matters, like what is the fate of the twenty
(32:06):
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Speaker 2 (32:08):
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Speaker 2 (34:18):
We talked some Russell Wilson, Sean Payton? Was it? Was
it done before it even started?
Speaker 4 (34:23):
Like like like we said, you go into a new workplace,
people want their own people did Did Chumpayne ever really
want Russell Wilson? There's so many layers there. We talked
about a bunch of it. You missed that on the podcast.
But before we wrapped the show with some Kansas City chiefs,
could we know I saw a meme that I can't
get out of my head? Did you see this one
(34:44):
as well? That Jason Kelsey looks like the snowman from
the Rudolph claymation.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
No, now, I can't get my head. Our buddy Spot
looks like Yukon Cornelias.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
You do, Spot, but Spot look at the side by
side of Jason Kelsey because he got lea little eyes.
Look at Jason Kelsey next to the Snowman from Rudolph
and it's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Hey, maybe we do doppelgangers tomorrow. We have three hours
to fill for Dan Patrick. But right now, you know,
we established on it back Thursday that Erkele is the goat,
the answer when it comes to nerds. Yeah, and in sports,
especially in the NBA. You hear more in the NBA,
I think than anywhere else about who's the best player
on the court right now, And it's always like, well,
(35:32):
Lebron or then Giannis. It was quite Leonard for a minute.
It always like Teeters on who's the best guy at
the moment. And in football, for the past few years,
it's been Mahomes. He's the face of the NFL. He's
the guy, he's the best player on the field, and
you know, not to take anything away from him, but
he struggled, in fact, everybody struggled this year. Shout out
(35:53):
to our is.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
I'm saying Sat I was gonna say, shout out to
our listener, Ed who tweeted in the question as well.
He was like, you guy should talk about who's the
best now if not Mahomes.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Yeah, So the question based on that is, is Mahomes
still the best player on the field. It's not necessarily
an MVP conversation. It's like, is he still the best
guy out there? Or has someone stepped into this this
moment and now they're the best. And I think the
answer is clear. I'm not saying Mahomes is done by
any memes, but I think it's safe to say that
(36:26):
Lamar Jackson is by far the best player on the
field right now.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
You know it's uh.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
You brought up other sports, the NBA, It's it always
seems like it's like, oh, is it Jokich?
Speaker 2 (36:38):
Is it? Oh?
Speaker 4 (36:38):
There was a minute you're right where it's like Kawhi.
Then it was like, well, Kevin Durant's the best. Well,
then then it was Lebron And it's always a debate.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
In baseball, it was my trout for many years, then
it became show, hey, right, he's the best guy out there.
And football, it's been Mahomes for a decent amount of
time now, but I think that it's up for the grabs.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
I don't think it is. I'll tell you that I'd
still Mahomes. You could say Lamar Jackson and listen to
my team.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Maybe McCaffrey, My.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
McCaffrey is because when you think of quarterbacks, they've all slumped.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
You really can't say the same for mccafrey.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
But there's something something said about I don't want to
fall into the trap of like MVP needs to be quarterback.
And I know we're not talking MVP, but McCaffrey's great.
He just brings so much to a team.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
But I think McCaffrey and Tyreek Kill both need to
be in the conversy.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
Yeah, like if you're gonna be like if you're talking
about like guys that just bring it. Tyreek Hill, Christian McCaffrey. Yeah,
these are some of the faces of the NFL. But
no matter Lamar Jackson he whipped my team. I'm a
Niners fan, so of course I saw what he's capable of.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
That's how I look at it. Rich the face of
the NFL. I essentially I.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
Think, no matter what, Listen, Aaron Rodgers won a Super
Bowl with a ten win Packers team. Joe Montana won
a Super Bowl with a ten win Niners team. You
don't need to win. You don't need to go in
the current seventeen game schedule. You don't need to go
third teen and four or fourteen and three to be
the guy Mahomes could sneak in the playoffs at ten
and seven, eleven and six and win the Super Bowl.
(38:09):
I will never count out Patrick Mahomes. Now, yes, there'll
be obstacles. First time he's ever gonna have to play
road playoff games, the first time he has no real
wide receiver, one that he trust other than Travis Kelcey
at the tight end position.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
It looks like he's lumbering a little bit. Yeah, as
we were discussing earlier, I.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
Just think there's something to be said about. Yes, it's
not the same.
Speaker 5 (38:30):
Yeah, he sheds tacklers, but it just looks like he's
been running with heavy legs.
Speaker 4 (38:35):
I think that it's almost like a well as Rick
Flair one said, to be the man, you gotta beat
the man.
Speaker 5 (38:42):
So what has changed your mind? If Lamar hoisted up
the Lombardi?
Speaker 4 (38:47):
You know, if Lamar hoisted up the Lombardy, it would
I would say, you know, in this moment, maybe Lamar
is the number one guy.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
But okay, I'm in.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
The in the Cam Newton thought process of the game, dude,
Mahomes has been a two athleticism and and just what
their physical capabilities.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
Are Mahomes is still number one to me.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
Really still, I'm thinking maybe I thought Mahomes always played
with that magic like he had that flair obviously, yeah,
but he played with the magic where luck was always
on his side. When it comes to skill and athleticism
and and what you're seeing on the field, I think
Lamar Jackson has the edge there.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
Well, do you know what we're gonna be.
Speaker 4 (39:23):
We're gonna see a lot come this postseason, right because
Lamar has always been characteristically bounced early from the playoffs,
doesn't really hasn't stepped it up in those big games
since twenty eighteen, right.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
Or has been hurt or has been you know, banged up.
Speaker 4 (39:35):
So to me, the answer is Patrick Mahomes, undoubt the
best until the best on the field.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Yeah, It's it's like can't I mean, it's not you
can't debate it. I'm with you on you can't care.
It's hard.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
As I guess said Rick Flair, to be the man,
you got to meet the man. And three of the
last four Super Bowls included the Kansas City Chiefs, a
win over My Niners where him entire kill had magic
in the fourth quarter which broke my heart. He lost
to Tom Brady when they were the favorite team. Tom
Brady just had some magic that they were gronk. So
two super Bowls, then that year where the Bengals got
(40:13):
the better of him in a game that it looked
like the Chief should have won, the Rams win the
Super Bowl, and then last year they beat the Eagle.
So three of the last four Super Bowls featured Mahomes.
He won two of them. So when Lamar Jackson has
hasn't even got past the divisional round, you can't tell
me anyone's the face of the NFL or number one
other than Patrick Mahomes. If you were starting a team
(40:33):
today and I said you could have one guy on
your team who's not taking Patrick Mahomes, that's your answer.
If I said one guy Lamar Jackson was a free agent,
no one bit.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
No, no.
Speaker 5 (40:45):
You know what's changed a little bit though, is and
I respect him even though he's a rival. I never
I looked at him as very competitive. Now I look
at him as kind of poudy.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
Well that's what happened.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
Win Winners lose a little bit sometimes they my baby
antics and social media runs with that.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
So your thoughts would love your feedback at.
Speaker 4 (41:07):
Covin on Rich, If not Mahomes, who is the quote
face of the NFL. Who's the number one guy? Is
it Lamar Jackson? Has he done enough? I mean again,
I think that if you were to ask anyone start
a franchise today, you get first pick. I think everyone
would say anyone. I could pick anyone. Yeah, Mahome, Patrick Mahomes.
I will start my team with Mahomes. Are you start
(41:31):
your team with anyone else? I don't think so. Let
me throw one more name out there, by the way.
Not not in that conversation. The nerd one Sean hit
us up and he goes, how did you guys leave
out Chris Sabo's goggles As a kid.
Speaker 3 (41:42):
I was thinking about that, but he made goggles cool
for a lot of nerdy little.
Speaker 2 (41:46):
Kids like me. I wore the goggle.
Speaker 3 (41:47):
Yeah, and every kid with classes little league was Sabo
in the eighties.
Speaker 4 (41:51):
A right, Well, hey, we'll see you guys tomorrow. And
again for DP, thanks for hanging coviing on Rich.
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And for the past few weeks. We've been debating here
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And you know, he fits in both categories because he's
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all things Pittsburgh sports. Well, at the same time, he's
like a Dungeons and Dragons guy. But it goes down
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Speaker 2 (02:40):
I guess, so right, I guess. So. Yeah, he's a
cool dude. He really is.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
He's a man's man, absolutely, But it poses the question,
you know, on a throwback Thursday because Rich says there's
one answer.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Yeah, because we were talking about sports nerds and actual nerds,
because Danny g had just taken his kids to Disney
for the first time and said, the nerds that are
hanging around like the Star Wars attractions, Danny just quickly
tell the little anecdote you told me off the EDG
during the break.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Yeah, So Rise of the Resistance. By the way, I
like Star Wars, but everything in moderation.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
Right.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Rise of the Resistance is an amazing ride. I don't
know how many years it took them to put that together.
Everything to scale amazing. But we get inside and at
the beginning of the ride, they tell you where the
Resistance where the base is located, and they say, no,
matter what, don't tell enemy forces where the base is.
And this guy is with a couple of buddies in
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front of us, and they have matching Star Wars jackets on.
He turns and looks at his friends and he said,
if this was real life, I wouldn't tell him even
if they tortured me.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Oh he was dead. I swear he was dead.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Serious reason Dad nerd and in like ten years now,
I feel like it's in ten years where nerd is
the new cool.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
So we live in the upside down.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
And also the custom two hundred dollars lightsabers. I mean
people go all out there and they have the sleeves
like the protective cases for these lightsabers. And my wife
went up to a park attendant and said, where's the
nearest bathroom, and the character the Star Wars character said,
I don't work here.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
I'm just a nerd. I don't work here. I'm just
dressed like this.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
The guy said, So you know, listen, you can say
two hundred dollars or a lightsaber is weird.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
You could also say two hundred dollars for a jersey
is weird? Right, an official jersey.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Someone might say you were in a jersey with another
man's name on it for a couple hundred bucks.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
So listen this. Do we think we're in the game?
Though I don't think we're in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I think some people do think they're But anyway, there
are sports herds or regular herds. But the question we
posed this morning when we were having our coffee getting
ready for the show, we said, is there a number
one nerd of all time?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
And I said ultimate nerd?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Yeah, And I said, there's a clear number one, and
I don't think it could be contested. So that's where
I say to you, Fox Sports Radio Nation, change my mind.
Eight seven seven nine nine on Fox by far, the
number one nerd in the history of TV, movie, sports,
anything has to be the one and only.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Did I do that your I'd say you rich are
close second. Steve mother E f and Erkle. There is
no one even close.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
He's by far the most famous nerd in the history
of entertainment, all right now, the same way you might say,
I went to debate because the dude owned like a
decade of network TV.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
On TG if you said.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
You said your sister used to have an Erkele doll,
that you would pull a string and then it would.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Be me, guess what rich more than just my sister, Like,
millions of people had that dolls. So that's why it's
it's a hard one to debate. But we could throw
some other honorable mentions or or potential winners out there.
I'm thinking, give you know, the same way you'd probably say,
are Pal Henry Winkler.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
The fons is synonymous with cool.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
If you wore to say, name the coolest character ever,
you might say not my generation, But the answer is Fonsie.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
The fons Yeah, Arthur fonz I.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Think the answer by far. If you said biggest nerd,
no one comes close to Steve Rkle. Jalia White, a
character much like Fonzie that wasn't designed to be the
star of the show but ended up becoming the star
of the show.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Now nerd to me is also very synonymous with the eighties,
and Family Matters is the nineties, so I'm feeling my
answer may have a little more weight to it, okay,
because again it's very eighties. And by the way, I
looked this up recently, I think the first sign of
nerd was used in a.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Doctor Seuss book look it up.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
First time was ever published an American history nerd was
one of his weird characters, so he gets credit for,
I think, even coming up with the word or publishing it.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
But if eighties is so synonymous with nerds, nerds, you know, and.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Revenge of the Nerds, my answer immediately goes to maybe
Anthony Michael Hall or would you say he's a geek
because he his character was labeled geek in sixteen Candles.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
He was the geek.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
He was the nerd, So I'm gonna throw him out
there too as honorable mention because he played the nerd
in several John Hughes movies and was also supposed to
be the nerd Ducky and Pretty in Pink, which went
to John Crier. So I'm thinking quintessential eighties nerd was
Anthony Michael Hall.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Well, when you Google nerd believe it or not. Pretty quick,
Steve Erkele comes up, iconic character clad in suspenders, arguably
unfashionable glasses, high water jeans.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Are you describing Steve Erkle?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Ravil, Reddenbacker, nazal ly antics, everything about Steve Rkele like
you could throw the allergies in there.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Like did I knew that? Like everything about Ercle was
a nerd? You know?
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Someone hit us up on Twitter at Covin on Rich
Someone said, you know, because the show was popular, and
as Kavino pointed out, nerds, so it became cool in
the two thousands. Yeah, Jim Parson Sheldon from Big Bang
Theory might be on this list.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
The entire cast of that show. Yeah except Kelly. Yeah,
Kelly Cuoco was like the one non nerd of that show.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
So who comes to mind?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox, we're trying to
declare a winner of sorts on the throwback And by
the way, we're also gonna talk this hour about who
is the current greatest player in the NFL right now?
Is it still Patrick Mahomes Because that was the answer
for a long time, So stick around for.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
That, herd. What about uh, Carlton. Oh, oh, that's a
good one. Spot, That's a really good one. Carlton. It's
not unusual. He's a nerd. Nerd dance right, oh man,
I mean his whole wardrobe. Think about it. He was.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
He was a young black dude in la who lived
in a rich neighborhood. And yeah, I mean, think of it.
The whole dynamic was Will was cool and Carlton was
wearing sweater vests, and he tried to make Carlton cool.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
For the whole murder of cornball, as Rob Parker would say.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Cornball a cornball maybe that Uh.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
And by the way, you're right, Doctor Seuss coined the
term nerd sixty years ago.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
I just happened to see that recently. And speaking of
recent again, I'm in New Jersey visiting the fam and
my parents had on Grease last night because my daughter
wanted to watch Grease.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Just throwing it out there, because no one would say it.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Eugene, Eugene, he's because that's a you know, that's a
very famous play. If you were casted as Eugene, you know,
you were the nerd of the play. You sarcasted as
the nerd. So he was like the quintessential high school nerd.
I'm just doing it out there, and I'm not saying
he's the answer. I'm just saying he's that guy.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Yo cove I was the answering the studio line. So
I don't know if you guys mentioned him, but I
think of Lewis Skulnick, Oh Revenge of the Nerds. Yeah,
growing up, he was the leader of the nerds.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
He's the leader of their nerds. Point dexter, point dexter.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
That's like, you know what, They're all great names, all
great nerds.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
But do any of them really rival Steve Erkele.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
I hate to like agree with rich, but he makes
a really strong case.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
He had every quality. I mean, Steve Rkle quintessential nerd.
But there are honorable mentions. Uh, you brought up John
Cryer as ducky, but what about two and a half Men, Like,
think about it. Charlie Sheen was like the playboy womanizer,
like cool guy, and John Cryer was his his nerdy bro.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
I got one based on what you just said that
no one's gonna say, so I'll just say it.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Skippy from Family Times he was a nerd, right.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
He was obsessed with Mallet, Dwight from the Office, Dwight.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
But do they any of them rival Like Erkle was
the font. Remember you brought up the fons as the
definition of cool. The Fawns was also a side character
that became the main character, much like Erkele. But Erkle
did it on the flip.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Side of that. He made the nerd the main.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Character of that show. He was supposed to be an
ancillary character.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Now we we we did point that out.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Now when you talk about Nerds Camino, we say Erkle's
top of the heap. I mean, he's He's the He's
the Michael Jordan of Nerds.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
He's Mount Rushmore man. He might be undebatable.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
You know, in typical fashion, everyone loves to do their
Mount Rushmore of everything. Meanwhile, none of us have ever
been to Mount Rushmore, but everyone loves to do their
Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
So you have Erkele. There three others. I think Dwight
from the.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Office, like Spot said, just based on the haircut alone
and the vibe of Dwight, Dwight's on Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
With Erkele, you might put Carlton up there. And I'm
trying to think of this. Sheldon and Sheldon is that it.
It's generational, man.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
I think a lot of younger guys would say, Sheldon
from Big Bang Theory, the whole show was about nerds. Spot,
But then you're leaving off Skulnick, So then you're not
You're you're sort of isolating like eighties.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Dudes who grew up with Revenge of the Nerds.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Hold on, I'm thinking of when I'm picturing like eighties
nineties nerds in my head. Spot Cavino's a couple of
years older than us, so he always loves to say, yeah,
I was out getting moody when you guys were watching tgif.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
I mean it's true.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Sure, I'm sitting at home watching Family Matters, Full House
and step by Step.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Spot, wasn't that susannsum Son, Yeah, the son was a
huge names his son on Step by Step, That little
he was a little deep I forget his name. All
the kid from Twilight's on the movie.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Yeah, yeah, maybe not popular enough, but he did come
to mind for me. I'm like, yeah, because the whole
point was, how could it be such a nerd when
his mom was like, you know, the hot Suzanne Summers.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
All right eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. Who
else could even rival the goat? Look, there's lots of
There's lots of goats, right, some are undebatable. Erkle might
be in that Gretzky sort of echelon of nerds.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Hard to debate.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Other sports shows might debate, Uh, you know Jordan Lebron
and you know your typical a Lei and Tyson and
Gretzky and Jerry Rice or Randy Moss. No, no, no,
here on comno, Rich, who's the nerd goat?
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Who's the girl?
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Yeah, the goat of the nerds, because again, is Joe
mangan You could make a.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Case that he is because he still pulls premium.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Tale as the as the kids say, Rich, Joe Manganello
is a sports nerd.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
He is a Dungeons and Dragons guy. It's his birthday,
that's why we bring this up.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
And he's he's just too handsome to fall into the
category when your magic Mike and your ex wife is
Sophia Vagara and you already have a beautiful new way. Now,
Manganello is too cool to He's like a hot chick
that says, I'm really just the nerd. Yeah, Joe Manganello
being into dungeons and Dragons is like a hot chick
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that puts on glasses and pigtails.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
And she's like, I'm a nerd, and you're like, you're
not a nerd. You're just a hot chick to put
her hair in a you know.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Up exactly, throw on some glasses. It's like that's that movie.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
She's all that.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
And Freddy Prince Junior takes off the girls of Glasses
and he's like, see.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Rachel Lee Cook, Mike in North Carolina will start with you.
Covino and Rich filling it for Dan Patrick. Figure mix
it up a little bit today. Best nerd who comes
to mind?
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Yeah, I mean, come on, Screech, leave off Screech.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Yeah. It's like Rich's favorite show.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
The late great Dustin Diamond, who you know he squabbled
with that cast in his final days.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
But yeah, Screech was a great nerd. Screech was packing heat.
Though a lot of people don't know that. He ain't
a porn or something. Rest in peace.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
But you know what, Rich, he may be the solid
number two and sometimes the solid number two, it's better
than number one.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Stop it no.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
But if you're saying, ercles to go, I think I
screeched out right up there if we're if you really
want to go the I rolling route of a Mount Rushmore,
which I brought up, so yeah, I think screeches on that,
Nick Kope, What do you got buddy?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Well?
Speaker 7 (15:47):
I was thinking, do we need some female representation on
this Mount Rushmore?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Because?
Speaker 7 (15:52):
Uh so for me, my favorite cartoon as a kid
Scooby Doo.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
What about Velma Velma? Oh good one? And on that?
You know, is that your number one choice if you
had to with a cartoon?
Speaker 5 (16:04):
Oh hey, hey, Nick? On that note, how about Lisa Simpson?
Oh legendary?
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Uh huh, she was a nerd too, you're right about that?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Uh again, back to the phone calls, I'm gonna throw
one out there and be in between because no one's
gonna say it. But if you were a big MTV
kid like I was growing up, and you loved Van
Halen and eighties rock like that, the Hot for Teacher
video was as famous as it got and they depicted
like all the cool kids in school who turned into
Van Halen. And then there was Waldough sit down, Waldo, Waldo.
(16:39):
Waldo was the nerd and he was just nervous to
be in school.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
He was the guy I thought you were gonna say
the VJ Kennedy. No, yeah, yeah, yeah, Kennedy was a nerd.
You're right? What about uh?
Speaker 4 (16:49):
What's your face? From New Girl? Zoey Deschanel wasn't her
whole character? She was a nerd jess on that show
New Girl?
Speaker 2 (16:57):
What about the uh?
Speaker 4 (16:58):
She who, by the way, turned into a pretty curvy,
good looking young woman the daughter on Modern.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Family Ariel Winters.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Actually, she played the nerd on the show and then
you know, grew up and now she's uh.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
And in that in that vein to Panga Boy meets Girl,
she was a nerd. She was all into academics.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Rich Fox Sports Radio Nation.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
I consider him to be one of my heroes and
one of the baddest, most suckers around and ever in
the world of comedy, true true badass.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
But would you consider pee Wee Herman a nerd? The
late great Peewee? You know what? I think? He just
stole a callers answer. You know what, you know the phone.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Let's go to Lisa and Floria, Lisa your own coven
on rich In for Dan Patrick, what's out?
Speaker 6 (17:48):
Lisa to totally did steal my thunder?
Speaker 8 (17:51):
I'm har of the Soma era.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
But Herman started it all.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
You know you're talking to U my co host Steve
Cavino here, biggest pee Wee Herman fan. I know, rest
in peace, pee Wee. But yeah, he was. He was legend.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
But what was great about Pee Wee Herman is like
he was kind of cool. He just dressed like a nerd, right,
Like he just but he thought he was cool. He
was funny, and he thought he was a ladies man.
He was this in Dottie.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Remember, She's like, come on, pee Wee, let's just go
out on the day. And he's like what, he didn't
have time for that.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
He was in his zone. Yeah, by the way, how
did Pee Wee Herman not have time for Dottie? He
was doing magic tricks. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Let's let's take one more phone call now, we'll take
the rest when we come back. James and Wisconsin.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
What's up? James, Yo, James, hang on here, we got
a full board. Hang on, hang on, you know where
we go?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
There we go, James, James, Hey, guys, thanks for checking
the goll real quick.
Speaker 6 (18:44):
I kind of got soul on the peewee. But I
got a couple more for you. I got this guy's
kind of a whack job and got a lot of trouble.
But I got Jared from Subway and then the sports guy.
I got Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
You know Kirk Cousins. Kirk Cousins a great nerd.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Yeah, Jared for Subway disqualified because he's a creep and
in prison. But when he was the spokesman, before you
realize what a piece of garbage he was, he was
a nerd.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Yeah, he was a nerd that one.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
You see what a nerd he is in Quarterback on Netflix,
like a lovable nerd. Would you say Eli Manning is
a big time sports nerd? At least I thought Eli's
in the category of googoon. What about Dobb's a huge nerd.
Dobbs is an he's the past. Yeah, Dobbs and the nerds.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
A scientifical nerd. I haven't hit on one.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Very unexpected there in specific categories of like they're athletic nerds.
Speaker 7 (19:40):
This guy, this guy, his love of dungeons and dragons,
which I also love, is very extremely well documented. Vin
Diesel Vin diesels like loves dungeons and dragons and family.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
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Speaker 3 (21:14):
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Mercedes Benz Studios, talking nerds on a throwback Thursday.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
We're still gonna talk some sports here, I hope.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
So we still got to talk about the Chiefs and
even though they're struggling, is Patrick mahonmee still the best
player in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
That's lot to get.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Great questions, So you know, I want to get to
that quick, so let's go rapid fire.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
But I would say, in tribute to Joe Manganello's birthday,
he's the ultimate nerd. He's sort of a crossover nerd
because he's like a sports nerd and an actual nerd.
But who's the ultimate nerd? I think what we've discovered
here Rich is really interesting. Steve Erkele is the Jordan,
the Ali, the Gretzky, the all time goat of nerds.
(22:13):
Family Matters ran from eighty nine to ninety eight. Jim
Parsons made a valiant attempt, but no one's out nerd.
It's Steve Rkele, Pee Wee Herman's there, Carlton's there.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
I mean they did screech dirty.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
The dude wore a clown outfit and a beanie, so
he's on that list too.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Is there as well?
Speaker 4 (22:31):
But you know what I was looking at what was
going on today, I'm like, oh, who celebrates a birthday?
And I saw manganello and I'm thinking, poor guy grew
up with a bunch of combination Christmas birthday gifts, like
Danny G who celebrated a birthday yesterday.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Hey, it's your birthday and Christmas.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
But Erkele was the ultimate nerd, I mean the ultimate
Carlton again, he was more of a cornball, you know.
I think if you're handsome and you're good at sports
is sort of cancels out your nerdy qualities a little bit,
which makes Erkele on that upper echelon. Because have you
seen the story of Pacers, Miles Turner, Danny G. You
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probably have seen this, Like in his obsession with Star
Wars and legos.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
Oh yeah, remember he walked into Star Wars night recently
dressed as Han Solo, and he had a very attractive
prince Princess Lea with him.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
So when you're rolling with attractive Princess Lea's and you're
in the NBA, even though you really are a nerd
and you're spending your spare time.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
With legos, it sort of cancels it out of Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Like, like you said before the break, if you're an
attractive woman and you're like, I'm a nerd, it's like, no,
if you're freaking hot, you're not a nerd. I don't
care what you Oh you like, oh you like you know,
nerd like Harry Potter, but you know.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
You're a hawker that likes nerdy stuff. You're not a nerd.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
Right.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
By the way, one of my biggest pet peeves when
a good looking girl's like, oh my god, I'm such
a nerd.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
I'm like, stop it, stop it. Steve Merkle's a nerd.
You're not a nerd.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Rapid fire through the phones will start with Joey and Tampa.
You're on with Covenon rich In for DP. We're gonna
talk some chiefs in a second ball. Let's go through
the phone calls. Hey, Joey.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Hey, I shot right, but I was about to say,
I was gonna say screeched, but I.
Speaker 6 (24:14):
Was gonna say minkis from boy Beach World two.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Yeah, I think that was the equation minkus. You know
how like nowadays, I feel like every sitcom or show
on Netflix or Hulu needs like the funny, sassy gay dude.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Back in the day, I think it was the nerd.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Shows today don't have a nerd for the most part,
because the nerds sut of mainstream.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Well props to Julia White because what we're learning here
is that no one did it better than him.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
He's the king, uh Jake, And I well, what's up, Jake?
Speaker 7 (24:41):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (24:42):
What about Back to the Future with George McFly's a
great one.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Catch your damn hands, you know that.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
I mean, George McFly is part of a legendary trilogy,
not just one movie, right does that's got to compete
with family Matters? George was George McFly might be one
of the best answers. How did I not think of that?
Speaker 2 (25:09):
And his name's Big Fly McFly god such a great.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
And by the way, the counter he had the counter
of one of the best bullies ever Biff, so I
get his nerd. Oh, that's a good one. Brian in Arkansas,
Kevin on Retch, what's a buddy?
Speaker 6 (25:25):
Pre dating all of this, and I think he was
the original nerd.
Speaker 7 (25:29):
How about Jerry Lewis?
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Jerry was Jerry Lewis and the nerd or just a
peculiar fellow, sort of like odd.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
He played well, he played the nutty professor.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
It's kind of nerdy, very I mean, very nerdy before
a bottle glasses like he you know, had the buck
teeth a lot of his characters.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
I wanted to add an underrated TV nerd one of
the reasons I love my wife one of the many reasons.
You know that, what's the one TV show that you
go to sleep with it on in the background? For us,
it's King of Queen. When she told me that, I'm like,
that's the one I have on in the background too.
Spence Patton Oswalt, it's a really good nerdy.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Patton Oswalt's a good nerd for sure. And he also
played a sports nerd in the movie. Yeah, that's right.
Can I get a real life nerd? Mentioned Zuckerberg the
biggest nerd of them all? I mean, so is Bezos.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
They're all nerds, billions of billions of dollars.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Look at a picture, doesn't doesn't take the way of
the fact that.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
No offense to the balding guys out there. But look
at the photos of a balding Jeff Bezos when Amazon
was on its come up, and he's in his off
swell little office. He's got the like George Costanza haircut.
It's like, I'm Jeff Bezos.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Now.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
The dude's on yachts and he looks like a villain
in Austin Powers movie.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Be Powerful, and you've made your billions. It cancels out
the nerdiness a little bit. I don't know.
Speaker 7 (26:52):
Elon Musk sometimes will pose with like flint lock pistols
and he's got that god awful bomber jacket with the
fur around. It is just, oh my god, awful, awful,
so hard money. He had like a plastic pistol from
like a cyberpunk game.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Money.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
Money could try to disguise the nerd, but sometimes you
can't shed it.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
You can't.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
William in Virgin You'll take two more William and Wade.
I think we just talked. No, Mike, we'll go to
William what's up William?
Speaker 6 (27:17):
Hey, guys, I would I think it's from the early nineties,
but it was a kid in play and I think
I think it was class act and kid plays the
nerd guy and then they switched personalities or they switch
names and try to go with that and thendgress. Yes, yeah,
(27:38):
yeah for a female that movie, she's all that where
she's the huge nerd and then they try to give
her the makeover.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
That's the funniest example ever because Rachel Lee Cook was
smoking hot.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
They took off her glasses and let her hair down.
Come on, uh, thank you, will Mike and Michigan. All right,
let's go away. We'll go to wait in Indiana. Wade,
what's up, buddy?
Speaker 2 (27:58):
What's up? Wade?
Speaker 6 (28:00):
I got a U A deep cut? Uh pre Erkle
head of the class ingen.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Oh yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Yeah, absolutely remember that. That's a good one. The thing is,
it's a great honorable mention. But he does not rival Erkle.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Like.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
That's what we really established here, is man, that dude
was the goat of nerds and rich I'm also thinking
like you're again, because when you think of nerds, you
think of like the eighties, your eighties baseball cards, any
nerdy ones come to mind. I'm like, you know, even
though he's a badass in the big leagues, like Kent Takolvy,
always looked like a big nerd.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Oh I was grown up.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
I always thought, I mean, I know he was a
great player, but I always thought there was no one nerdier.
My dad would always make the reference to look at
that guy, looks like Kurt Rambis.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Yeah, you guys a big nerd. You know, he was
a scrappy guy. Yeah, but he looked like a nerd dude.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
If my dad and I were playing some basketball to
park or something and some nerdy guy was shooting hoops,
my dad be like, who is that guy?
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Who? Guy? Who was he?
Speaker 4 (28:57):
Kurt Rambus, Kurt Rampas is a great it's sports nerd
sports nerds. But if we if we will, we'll wrap
up Mike in Michigan and then I think we could
put together a four. What's up, Mike?
Speaker 6 (29:09):
Hey, I got one last one here, Fellas. He's old school,
so your so bad thing worked? What about Barney fight Show.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
That's a good one.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
But he was so smooth as mister that it almost
cancels out. He was he was in there though, all right,
So if we had to pick four, you'd go erkle screech, Carlton, Carlton.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
I feel like there was one other that someone named,
oh and Revenge of the I know.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
I think we have to top five then George McFly. Dude,
McFly is timeless and he like grew out of it
once he punched Biff. His life changed.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
So I think rkle screech, Carlton, erkele screech, Carlton McFly
change our mind at Covino and Rich Now I do
want to talk to some Kansas City chief because I
don't know, it's almost like it's almost a situation of
I'm not gonna not believe in them until they lose.
(30:10):
Like it's you know, every year, Cavino, you and I
joke about how playoffs come around, and.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
We could talk all year, all year.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Yet come crunch time, sometimes the same few superstars rise
to the occasion, and I would not be shocked. I
don't care if they're nine and six and stumble into
the playoffs at ten and seven or eleven and six,
it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
There's still the Chiefs. There's still the Chiefs. So it's
a two part.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Question, and he's still Mahomes, but he's a frustrated Mahomes.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
This level of from You're right about that. We have
never seen a six lost Mahomes. You know, We've never
seen also a on the road in the playoffs Mahomes.
He's never played a road playoff game.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
You've never seen a Mahomes who doesn't seem to trust
his team the way he a few years.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
By the way, if you are new to Coveno and Rich,
Mahomes will be on our show next Tuesday afternoon. It's
going to be can't miss radio.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
We always do. Frustrated Mahomes is the best Mahomes some
NFL trivia on Tuesday for some prizes. So join us.
So here's your two part question.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
We'll take your feedback and it's part A the question
Part one Part A either.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
One have you.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
Have you decided that Mahomes regardless of the struggles. If
not Mahomes, who would you say is the best player
in the NFL?
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Right now? That's part easy answer, I really do save it.
Part one of the question is if not Mahomes, because
I still feel I don't care about the receivers and
the struggles and everything going on If you were to
ask me right now who's the best player in the national.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
I have my answer, And we're also gonna talk some Chiefs,
and I want to know where everyone feels like this
ends up for them. Do you trust Andy Reid, Mahomes
and Kelsey and the core of that team enough that
company off time, maybe experience, maybe stepping it up when
it matters, like what is the fate of the twenty
(32:06):
twenty three Kansas City Chiefs?
Speaker 2 (32:08):
That and your feedback.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
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Speaker 3 (33:57):
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Dan Patrick hatric, which means we'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Yeah. Nothing makes me happier than I'm still looking up stuff.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
The whole interaction with Deebo, Samuel, and Cam Newton If
you missed that earlier in the show, Danny will post
the podcast. A lot of fun, a lot of fun
back and forth between Cam and Debo.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
We talked some Russell Wilson, Sean Payton? Was it? Was
it done before it even started?
Speaker 4 (34:23):
Like like like we said, you go into a new workplace,
people want their own people did Did Chumpayne ever really
want Russell Wilson? There's so many layers there. We talked
about a bunch of it. You missed that on the podcast.
But before we wrapped the show with some Kansas City chiefs,
could we know I saw a meme that I can't
get out of my head? Did you see this one
(34:44):
as well? That Jason Kelsey looks like the snowman from
the Rudolph claymation.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
No, now, I can't get my head. Our buddy Spot
looks like Yukon Cornelias.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
You do, Spot, but Spot look at the side by
side of Jason Kelsey because he got lea little eyes.
Look at Jason Kelsey next to the Snowman from Rudolph
and it's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Hey, maybe we do doppelgangers tomorrow. We have three hours
to fill for Dan Patrick. But right now, you know,
we established on it back Thursday that Erkele is the goat,
the answer when it comes to nerds. Yeah, and in sports,
especially in the NBA. You hear more in the NBA,
I think than anywhere else about who's the best player
on the court right now, And it's always like, well,
(35:32):
Lebron or then Giannis. It was quite Leonard for a minute.
It always like Teeters on who's the best guy at
the moment. And in football, for the past few years,
it's been Mahomes. He's the face of the NFL. He's
the guy, he's the best player on the field, and
you know, not to take anything away from him, but
he struggled, in fact, everybody struggled this year. Shout out
(35:53):
to our is.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
I'm saying Sat I was gonna say, shout out to
our listener, Ed who tweeted in the question as well.
He was like, you guy should talk about who's the
best now if not Mahomes.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Yeah, So the question based on that is, is Mahomes
still the best player on the field. It's not necessarily
an MVP conversation. It's like, is he still the best
guy out there? Or has someone stepped into this this
moment and now they're the best. And I think the
answer is clear. I'm not saying Mahomes is done by
any memes, but I think it's safe to say that
(36:26):
Lamar Jackson is by far the best player on the
field right now.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
You know it's uh.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
You brought up other sports, the NBA, It's it always
seems like it's like, oh, is it Jokich?
Speaker 2 (36:38):
Is it? Oh?
Speaker 4 (36:38):
There was a minute you're right where it's like Kawhi.
Then it was like, well, Kevin Durant's the best. Well,
then then it was Lebron And it's always a debate.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
In baseball, it was my trout for many years, then
it became show, hey, right, he's the best guy out there.
And football, it's been Mahomes for a decent amount of
time now, but I think that it's up for the grabs.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
I don't think it is. I'll tell you that I'd
still Mahomes. You could say Lamar Jackson and listen to
my team.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Maybe McCaffrey, My.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
McCaffrey is because when you think of quarterbacks, they've all slumped.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
You really can't say the same for mccafrey.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
But there's something something said about I don't want to
fall into the trap of like MVP needs to be quarterback.
And I know we're not talking MVP, but McCaffrey's great.
He just brings so much to a team.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
But I think McCaffrey and Tyreek Kill both need to
be in the conversy.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
Yeah, like if you're gonna be like if you're talking
about like guys that just bring it. Tyreek Hill, Christian McCaffrey. Yeah,
these are some of the faces of the NFL. But
no matter Lamar Jackson he whipped my team. I'm a
Niners fan, so of course I saw what he's capable of.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
That's how I look at it. Rich the face of
the NFL. I essentially I.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
Think, no matter what, Listen, Aaron Rodgers won a Super
Bowl with a ten win Packers team. Joe Montana won
a Super Bowl with a ten win Niners team. You
don't need to win. You don't need to go in
the current seventeen game schedule. You don't need to go
third teen and four or fourteen and three to be
the guy Mahomes could sneak in the playoffs at ten
and seven, eleven and six and win the Super Bowl.
(38:09):
I will never count out Patrick Mahomes. Now, yes, there'll
be obstacles. First time he's ever gonna have to play
road playoff games, the first time he has no real
wide receiver, one that he trust other than Travis Kelcey
at the tight end position.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
It looks like he's lumbering a little bit. Yeah, as
we were discussing earlier, I.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
Just think there's something to be said about. Yes, it's
not the same.
Speaker 5 (38:30):
Yeah, he sheds tacklers, but it just looks like he's
been running with heavy legs.
Speaker 4 (38:35):
I think that it's almost like a well as Rick
Flair one said, to be the man, you gotta beat
the man.
Speaker 5 (38:42):
So what has changed your mind? If Lamar hoisted up
the Lombardi?
Speaker 4 (38:47):
You know, if Lamar hoisted up the Lombardy, it would
I would say, you know, in this moment, maybe Lamar
is the number one guy.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
But okay, I'm in.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
The in the Cam Newton thought process of the game, dude,
Mahomes has been a two athleticism and and just what
their physical capabilities.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
Are Mahomes is still number one to me.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
Really still, I'm thinking maybe I thought Mahomes always played
with that magic like he had that flair obviously, yeah,
but he played with the magic where luck was always
on his side. When it comes to skill and athleticism
and and what you're seeing on the field, I think
Lamar Jackson has the edge there.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
Well, do you know what we're gonna be.
Speaker 4 (39:23):
We're gonna see a lot come this postseason, right because
Lamar has always been characteristically bounced early from the playoffs,
doesn't really hasn't stepped it up in those big games
since twenty eighteen, right.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
Or has been hurt or has been you know, banged up.
Speaker 4 (39:35):
So to me, the answer is Patrick Mahomes, undoubt the
best until the best on the field.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Yeah, It's it's like can't I mean, it's not you
can't debate it. I'm with you on you can't care.
It's hard.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
As I guess said Rick Flair, to be the man,
you got to meet the man. And three of the
last four Super Bowls included the Kansas City Chiefs, a
win over My Niners where him entire kill had magic
in the fourth quarter which broke my heart. He lost
to Tom Brady when they were the favorite team. Tom
Brady just had some magic that they were gronk. So
two super Bowls, then that year where the Bengals got
(40:13):
the better of him in a game that it looked
like the Chief should have won, the Rams win the
Super Bowl, and then last year they beat the Eagle.
So three of the last four Super Bowls featured Mahomes.
He won two of them. So when Lamar Jackson has
hasn't even got past the divisional round, you can't tell
me anyone's the face of the NFL or number one
other than Patrick Mahomes. If you were starting a team
(40:33):
today and I said you could have one guy on
your team who's not taking Patrick Mahomes, that's your answer.
If I said one guy Lamar Jackson was a free agent,
no one bit.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
No, no.
Speaker 5 (40:45):
You know what's changed a little bit though, is and
I respect him even though he's a rival. I never
I looked at him as very competitive. Now I look
at him as kind of poudy.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
Well that's what happened.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
Win Winners lose a little bit sometimes they my baby
antics and social media runs with that.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
So your thoughts would love your feedback at.
Speaker 4 (41:07):
Covin on Rich, If not Mahomes, who is the quote
face of the NFL. Who's the number one guy? Is
it Lamar Jackson? Has he done enough? I mean again,
I think that if you were to ask anyone start
a franchise today, you get first pick. I think everyone
would say anyone. I could pick anyone. Yeah, Mahome, Patrick Mahomes.
I will start my team with Mahomes. Are you start
(41:31):
your team with anyone else? I don't think so. Let
me throw one more name out there, by the way.
Not not in that conversation. The nerd one Sean hit
us up and he goes, how did you guys leave
out Chris Sabo's goggles As a kid.
Speaker 3 (41:42):
I was thinking about that, but he made goggles cool
for a lot of nerdy little.
Speaker 2 (41:46):
Kids like me. I wore the goggle.
Speaker 3 (41:47):
Yeah, and every kid with classes little league was Sabo
in the eighties.
Speaker 4 (41:51):
A right, Well, hey, we'll see you guys tomorrow. And
again for DP, thanks for hanging coviing on Rich.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
We'll see you then. Areriba there, chie baby, see you
in the Promised Land. Have one goodbye, guys,
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