The Best Of Covino & Rich

C&R talk J.J. Spaun, Joey Chestnut, Shohei Ohtani & Vegas! Does Ohtani's big return to the mound trump Game 5 of the NBA Finals? Troy Aikman has thoughts about why refs HAVE to get calls right in 2025. There's a no-hitter in the College World Series & Shaq got denied by SGA! They welcome in the man of the hour, Joey Chestnut! He talks with the guys about his big return to Nathan's on the 4th of July & more! Plus, 'LAST ONE STANDING' goes to OT!

 

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
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with a live broadcast on Friday from Vegas at the Circa.
So if we're not gonna see you there, you'll hear
it here on Fox Sports Radio. But look out for us.
Everyone's invited. We have like a whole big section. It's
gonna be our biggest Cavino on Rich crowd yet. So
we'd love to see you there. Let's do it. Let's
make it happen.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Danny G. You excited about.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
Oh man, Yeah, I'm looking forward to this weekend. I
heard Spotty has room for about five hundred more listeners.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Oh yeah, yeah, no, actually yeah, it's like a good problem.
Spot YEA.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Our video guy who's running the whole thing, he's like, God,
it's like too many RSVPs. I'm like, there's no such thing.
It's too many RSVPs to a big event. Those are
first world radio problems and less like the Yankees trying
to figure out where are we gonna fit Gean Carlos
Stanton with all these other big bats that we have
to get in the lineup somehow. These are great problems.
And if you have great problems, enjoy that lead into it.

(01:12):
It'll work itself out, much like the Mets starting pitching,
where it's like, how are we gonna fit these guys in?
Though or soon will get hurt, someone starts stinking like
Gabe Lincoln. There all balances out.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
That's right now.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
On today's show, we will talk some Jean Carlo, but
more show hey, because he also makes his return tonight. Yep,
that's the big story. Is it the biggest story? I
think it might be. Plus Joey Chestnut another guy making
a return, talk about.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
The biggest story. He's gonna join us live on the show.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
We got the hot dog eating champ himself, the announcer
was made today his big return. Why do you think
I said swing swing in the beginning of the show. Oh,
you're talking about his hot dog. Okay, I'm just so
excited about Joey chestnutt well, he returns to the Nathan's
Hot Dog Eating Contest fourth of July, so we'll get
a fun little Honestly, it is big news. Check in
hasn't been the same with Adam that it's like peanut

(02:01):
butter and jelly. You need Joey Chestnut to complete the festivities,
and we'll talk about it. Plus last one's standing the
game that's sweeping the nation. We'll do some trivia here
on the show, give away some prizes, but might as
well get into it right off the bat, as they say,
pun intended show hay style. I'm gonna roll with your show. Hey,
but you brought up joe Chestnut and we're gonna have

(02:22):
them on in about an hour. So I have to
ask this being that you did did give shout outs
and props to Kitlyn Clark. Welcome to the Clark side.
I mean that's what Sam's T shirt says.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Oh my god, that is a cool shirt.

Speaker 4 (02:34):
Thank you, second time wearing it, I.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Just the first time. I probably just know you're a
Star Wars nerd. It isn't that same enough?

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Vain?

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Well, you just like Clark bars. What's the more miserable
Clark Griswold.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
What's more miserable the WNBA without Kitlyn Clark or Hot
Dog Eating without Joey Chestnut. It's sort of comparable, right,
I mean, like you're talking about taking the face of
it cereal with no milk? Yeah, I mean, is there
some water? I can't think of a third comparable? And
without the Burger hot though, you getting contests when you

(03:07):
take chest out out of it or the WNBA. You
saw what happened with the ratings and ticket sales when
she was gone. For Rosane without Roseanne.

Speaker 5 (03:16):
Was stupid asshell continued for years the Saint Roseanne without
Roseanne Connor's get out of my face. So wait, is
there a show that oh uh, The Office without Steve Carell?

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Right, yeah, Two and a half Men without Charlie Sheen.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
I'm gonna have to go WNBA because it went from
everybody talking about it, everybody tuned in. It's really making
a push. Cam Newton's saying it's bigger than baseball. Are
gonna be like, yeah, okay if you revolve it around
one person, because when she's not playing, no one's really
talking about it the same way. It wasn't the same
banter and as soon as she came back, lighting it

(03:53):
up circus shots by the way, and everyone once again, man,
she's really different.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
Well yeah, but there were still a few other players
people were following that. I saw clips of No she
was out with without without chest Up being at Nathan's.
We didn't even tune in at all. Yeah, I can't
tell you who. We didn't even know who won without him.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
So that's a good question, Nathan's without Chestnut or WNBA
without Kaitlyn Clark. You know, yes, some NBA players, Because
we're gonna talk about the NBA Finals Game five tonight,
there's people saying without Woes, there's like, I mean, no
offense to shams. But isn't there aren't there people that
are saying it's just not the same with the breaking
news new woesh bombs. I just put a lot more

(04:35):
credibility into the w NBA than I do into hot
dog eating.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
But it is an American pastime.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
And Danny g does make a good point, it really
was nothing without Joey Chestnut.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
Like it was completely off our radar.

Speaker 4 (04:49):
Name in Berti Letti, the defending champion twenty twenty four, his.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
Name is even Nathan and we never even will. Oh,
that's cool.

Speaker 4 (04:56):
I'm sorry, no, no, no, that no, I just I don't
know his name is Patrick. I don't know, said Nathan,
because I was thinking of Nathan's Patrick Bertle Leddy.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
I'm sorry, but he ate fifty eight. You know what,
I'm gonna write that down.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
I'm gonna the Red Sox hat I'm gonna I'm gonna
ask Joey Chess and if he's more important than Caitlyn Clark.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
When we're at that, though, you more well.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
I heard the Red Sox traded Devers for Bertle Leddy's
all right, so.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
We'll get to Joey Chestnut.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
We're gonna get to NBA Finals Game five tonight, and
I'm sure Elias at the Sports Bureau probably has some
stat about whoever wins Game five wins such and such
percentage of the NBA Finals. So we'll break down a
little bit of what we're gonna watch tonight.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
But are you watching that tonight or is there a.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
Bigger story trumping dramping the NBA Finals Game five? Well,
it's Show Hay's return, Show Hay, Oh Tony. I think
everything takes a back seat to Show Hey tonight. It's
his first pitching appearance since August twenty third, twenty twenty three.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
Please don't get hurt. Please don't get it.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
And that's the risk you're taking. But life's a risk
are now and I don't know if it's worth it.
But you heard Dan Byer's updates. They're saying one to
two winnings. I don't know if there is a pitch
count in mind, but one to two winnings. I'm sure
everyone's closely gonna watch, and everyone's gonna be closely watching
on TV as well. You know, I think that everybody's
tuning into this because you want to see if he

(06:18):
brings the juice, what he's about his first game pitching
as a Dodger.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
All of a sudden, it's the hottest ticket to get.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
So we got that announcement, I mean yesterday, right, wasn't
he yesterday?

Speaker 2 (06:28):
You're like, damn sure he's gonna pitch just like that.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
We've been seeing him warm up obviously since. But I
think even an NBA Game five, where it's all tied
up and you got young superstars playing big takes a
back seat to Shohio Tani. That's how massive he is,
and that's how great he is for baseball. I would
have told you there's no way in the world a
baseball story in June would be more on a lot

(06:53):
of people's radar than the NBA Finals Game five, when
it's tied up to a piece. Yeah, people are also
supposed to be excited that Jean Carlos Stanton's coming back
after all the albow problems. His first game in over
seventy games. He's missed the entire season, and you remember
the postseason he had last year?

Speaker 2 (07:12):
He played big? Doesn't your girlfriend like him too?

Speaker 1 (07:15):
I mean, I think all women like him. Is the
best butt in baseball. I think your wife probably likes
him too, she just doesn't tell you. But he's the
oldest thirty five year old in baseball, four hundred and
twenty nine home runs, he had twenty seven dongs last year,
and he played big in the postseason. He makes his
return to the already stacked Yankees lineup, and honestly, aside
from me, no one gives a diddly squat. And I

(07:38):
get it because Shohio Tani makes his return against the Padres.
So ask yourself this about show. Hey, there's too many questions.
I'm gonna give you five. Number one, is it bigger
than the NBA Finals? Game five is a crucial Game
five in the NBA, taking a backseat to the return

(07:59):
of the biggest starm baseball returning to the mound and
a you know, relatively meaningless we'll take your temperature tonight.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
We'll see all the highlights.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
You'll see social media, you'll see what's trending, and it's
gonna be showhy because of his worldwide dominance and how
people love the guy, and how big he is for
baseball and for the Dodgers, and to see him become
the two way player that everyone was pumped for him
to be, and how pump we were to see as
a Dodger. It all starts tonight. Remember he won with
the Dodgers. He played his ass off last year, but

(08:28):
we never seen him on the mound as a Dodger yet.
So think of the greatness he brought as a hitter
to the Dodgers. Can he bring that same greatness as
a picture that ridiculous MVP greatness, World Series champion greatness,
That's what I mean.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
So like, all right, let's see what he has now.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
So it absolutely takes precedence over a Game five which
sounds ridiculous, but that's just my prediction, that's my feeling,
because I mean, we've already had a competitive series so
far as tied at two, and I mean, I don't
think everyone's that pumped about it.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
We are. It's been a great series.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
This is where stars are born, this is where legacies
begin and dynasties begin.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
I get it. I've never claimed to be.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
A diehard NBA fan, so I'll tell you straight up, honest,
I'm way more excited to see show Hey take the
mound tonight. I was a little fired down that it's
like a two inning maximum, but that's expected. Yeah, I mean,
but I thought maybe they'd give him depending on how
he pitched.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
A pitch count as opposed to innings.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
I'm pretty sure you can still check out both. But
if you ask me what I'm genuinely more excited about,
I'd be lying. If I'm a man, NBA Game five,
I'll watch, but I am intrigued to see what Sho
Heo Tani does tonight as a Dodger on the mound
against a division rival.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
Like I know, it's June, but it's exciting.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
Daddy g Yeah, I can't wait for it, although I
am nervous because you saw him hit those couple home
runs against the Giants the other day and he's in
his own Yeah, you do not want the flow to
be interrupted as far as his bat goes or or
his legs stolen.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
Basis, my list of questions is applicable to you and
a dog, So follow me here.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
When it comes to show hal TONI tonight returning first
time pitching for the Doyers. Is it because he wants it?
Is it because the fans want it? Is it because
the Dodgers want to get quote their money's worth?

Speaker 2 (10:17):
I think they've already got their money. Is it because
the Dodge answer be.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
He wants because the fans want him. If you're a
real Dodgers fan, yeah, there's intrigue there and you're rooting
for him, but you want him to be healthy and safe.
You want no injuries, no risks. You don't want to
mess with something that's already working. So I think the
real fan, the real Dodgers fan, it's not for them,
the casual fan or the baseball fan, I should say,

(10:43):
like me, I think we're intrigued because the hell yeah,
let's see it. But this is all because he wants
to be that guy, because he.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
Can be that guy.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
And then the next question is with the Dodgers currently
being one of the best teams in baseball, do they
need it?

Speaker 2 (10:58):
And then the final question.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
Is is it all those combined and just overall good
for baseball?

Speaker 2 (11:04):
And that answer is obviously yes.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
Well, right now they do need it because they are
so injured in the starting picture slash bullpen category that
you know, to have an Otani out there is only
good right now. But in the long term, you just
hope that none of these ugly injuries wear their heads
ever again, because he's had not one, but two surgeries

(11:26):
on that elbow, So you just you just pray that
there's not going to be anything bad that comes from this.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
This goes back to one of our famous examples here,
and it's the question, yeah, you guys, remember when Farah
Fawcett died. The answer is probably no because it was
overshadowed by when Michael Jackson passed away. Michael Jackson gets
all the attention, all the headlines, and even though hey,

(11:52):
we miss Farah Fawce and she was a legend and
all that, Yeah, Michael Jackson took precedent over everything, right,
so he takes he takes the headline, and unfortunately Farah
Fawcett takes the back seat to this story.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
Show Hey is the biggest story of the night.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
Everything else, Jean Carlos Stanton, game fire, the NBA Finals,
everything else that happens between now and then, takes a
back seat to that.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
That's how big it is.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
And again not just in oil, the baseball and here
in America world wide.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
That's the difference. He's that much of a megastar.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
And that answers your question again, Rich about the Dodgers
want what they pay for. They've already gotten their money's yeah,
no doubt it. Back last year, I just wonder is
there anyone that's like, man, we paid him seventy mil
to pitch and hit. Is that even a sentiment? Or
is like no, no, no, we have sho Toddy. Had they
not won the World Series, you might hear some of that.
But baby, I think that put it to bed. He's

(12:49):
proven to be the star everybody wanted him to be.
The guy is he's a He's a freak. He really
is a freaking nature and that's why everyone's tuned in
and everyone's excited.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
See, hey, he.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
Might get rocked. We just want to see, like, yo,
is he dominant or is he a little sus right now?
Is he gonna get rocked by the Padres? You don't
keep in mind, you don't think the Padres have something
to say about this. You don't think that they're getting
together and they're like, yo, man, we've played today, we win.
Today's say you're a big baseball fan, I am dannyus

(13:23):
match just hit us up in Minnesota at Covino Rechi goes.
You guys are because you guys are nuts to think,
oh tany pitching. Trump's the NBA Finals?

Speaker 2 (13:30):
It does? It does? I think it does.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
I don't think there's any question. I understand the magnitude
of a finals versus a regular season game. I think
it's up for debate. I mean, yeah, there's NBA fans
that are like, he's serious. You know, I will say
that it was like a win or go home sort
of game. Then yeah, now we're talking. This is a
game five, crucial game. It's a crucial Game five. But

(13:53):
it's not Hey, someone's winning tonight.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
It's not game seven. Yeah, it's not a Game seven.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
Cove he gave the Farah Fawcet Michael Jackson analogy, and
that's just life, right, Like whatever's going on in your world.
You don't need to be a celebrity, a mega superstar
in sports are entertainment, but your news is only as
big as what else is going on in everyone's world. Like,
for instance, you could say if someone unfortunately passes away

(14:21):
on the same day as a bigger celebrity, they're not
going to get the headline. I always call it the
office drunk at the office party scenario. If you're drunk
at the at the company like holiday party. If someone's
more drunk and they're like humping random strangers and they're
like ah, doing toast and falling off a tables, no
one will remember that you were a drunk fool at

(14:42):
the party, because that's the drunkest fool. And I think
that sometimes you're just comparing yourself to what's the biggest story.
I guess right when we were on a plane with
OJ Simpson, which is a true story, we were on
a plane with OJ Simpson and we said, Man, if
this plane goes down because of karma, we're like a
We're blurb.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
It's like O. J.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
Simpson dies from karma in a plane crash and radio
and then they would have misspelled you like and also
Steve Corvino, right, and Conveno and Rick and we're also
on the flight. No one cares at that point, you know.
So again I think again, this is our prediction. We're

(15:22):
we're not guaranteeing it. This is our prediction. We'll see
how the public feels about it tonight. That's the fun
of it. Are you going to see more coverage and headlines?
I mean, everybody's algorithms different, but are you going to
see more coverage and excitement for show hey back.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
Or a game five? Check social media and I'll tell
you why.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
Because ESPN all of a sudden hates baseball, and they
you know, I wonder why they lick the sweat off
the basketball shoes of the NBA probably hate the fact
that ratings are growing everywhere and their contract is up.
They're done with baseball, so bad timing for them. That's like,
that's like when you break up with a girl and
then she gets real hot afterward.

Speaker 2 (15:59):
I broke up with the girl once, since you got
huge boobs after we broke off.

Speaker 1 (16:02):
Remember base has huge boobs now ESPN's like, ah, man, uh, this.

Speaker 3 (16:08):
May change with a game winning shot tonight, hang out
one more time.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
Well, that's that's also the fun of our that's also
the fun of our conversation, Danny J. I was gonna say, face,
if basketball has like a nail fight overtime game, that
could be cool.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
But over the weekend.

Speaker 3 (16:22):
Over, over the weekend, I saw more clips and I
got hit up with more text messages about that. Lance Stevenson,
Dwight Howard fight me too in the Big Three. Then
I did Game four in the NBA Finals.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
People like drama show man. That was That was a
really cool moment. Again it was it was an ugly scene,
but when you see Dwaye Howard and Lance Stevenson going
at it into the stands wrestling, people love that. People
love that. So yeah, I saw the same thing. What
are people going to be buzzing about? That's really what

(16:52):
we're asking you. And what do you care most about? Well,
remember we're not Dodgers fans. Hey, little tortilla boy Danny
is And I said that respectfully because I'm comparing you
to as you love to call her, the little tortilla girl,
hardshell or soft shell, why not both. I look at
it this way. It's a Monday, which would normally be
like a Monday. Now you got Monday Fun Day. Yeah,

(17:15):
you got Show Hey Pitching and Game five. So if
anything you can't bitch, you can play. You got two
cool things to watch tonight. And I got a Newdie
magazine when I woke up in the mail today. That's
Newdie magazine there. Yeah, so Monday Fun Day.

Speaker 6 (17:28):
There.

Speaker 1 (17:28):
He is Javier sam on the Ones and twos. Danny
Ga som steal Fly, the fiest of them all, the smoothest,
most buttery voice in all the land's on the phones.
I'll give you, but you're coffee in a salad for
lunch tomorrow if you could tell me who sings this song.

(17:48):
I'm not playing your goofy game just because you know
it's big timers.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
Thank you, Danny G. You don't get a salad, though,
I'll get your coffee.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
I ask questions that you know the answer to and
act like you're smart about it.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
That Alex Tripbeck career of that Less and Peace. Yeah,
exactly who are you? Alex Trebek?

Speaker 1 (18:04):
Alex Trebek, His job was to make it look like
he alunk.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
Yeah, Alex Tremig.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
Rich Davis loves to like only. Next time I know
something that I know he won't know, I'll offer him
a salad and a coffee to see if he does
salad and coffee. It doesn't go well together. You're right
when I said, it's a good trip to the bathroom.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
All right, So I try to get flushed out before
our big party.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
I know the song, but I didn't know the performer.
Thank you, guys for hanging out with Covino and Rich
Partying in Vegas this week. Live broadcast on Friday from CIRCA,
so tune in. You gotta time out your announcements. It
happens in life all the time. You don't want to
announce your wedding right when your brother announced his birth
of his son.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
You gotta time out your announcements. Jean Carlos Stanton's return
is being trump by Shoe Hayes return. Shoe Hayes return
is trumping Joey Chestnuts returned, or is it? We'll find
out when he stops by. We're saying that Show Hey
trumps everything. Everything takes a back seat to Show Hey,
including Game five tonight NBA Finals I feel bad. Sometimes

(19:14):
there will be a celebrity wrapped up in a scandal
that isn't really that juicy, but nothing else is going on,
and you know, and you know that they're praying, like please,
something happened, like there was there was other recently where
we're like, wow, that's getting a lot of attention. And
Kevino and I said to each other, Oh, you know,
they're praying for something crazy to happen. And then something did.

(19:37):
I don't have you remember? Want to talk about it?
I think, right, yeah it was, yeah, exactly, Yeah, I
know exactly what we're talking about, but I'm not saying it.
Let's go to the phones at eight seven, seven ninety
nine on Fox. Let's talk to Alex in Phoenix. Does
show hey take precedence over anything else going on tonight

(19:58):
or are we just finding it to show hey hype?

Speaker 2 (20:00):
The finals are still the finals? What are your thoughts?

Speaker 7 (20:03):
I mean, it's a technicality, but he probably won't pitch
the whole game.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
So they said one two wings.

Speaker 7 (20:09):
Yeah, I mean one of two winnings. I think for
that they will peak there. But I mean Tyre's Halliburn's
done a hell of a job, Like every team is
one on the opposing team's court, so I think it's
fifty to fifty. I mean, I do want to give
you guys credit, though I didn't have this on my
Bengo card to Pablo Francisco and Billy Madison reference in
the same sentence before you guys went to break. Oh yeah,
that was pretty good.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
We're big Pablo fans, we are. And that's no joking.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
You think we did give a Pablo Francisco called me
the little tortilla boy.

Speaker 2 (20:34):
Yeah, little tortilla boy.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
And we made a Billy reference Billy Madison Nudy Magazine.
They reference, that's the show, Alex. You got you get us? Yeah,
you do get us. Thank you, Alex. Thanks buddy boy. Now,
enjoy your Monday night, because again I said, we're just
all the winners here, right, because you could say, what's
more important, how about the fact that on Monday night
in June you had the return of show Hey end
Game five on the same night. Congrats to you. Enjoy

(20:57):
your Monday. Now, there was a story about Troy Aikman. Oh,
I know, he's the White jay Z.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
That story.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
I can't get that out of my head. I know
every time I see his face. I think then it
is like when whoever thought of that? Where they put
Jay Z and Troy Aikman side by side and you're like, yo,
he's the white jay Z.

Speaker 2 (21:17):
It is uncanny, It's weird.

Speaker 1 (21:19):
It's like you ever see David Shwimmer with Nick Cage's
face on it, and it looks like even more like
David Swimmer. I have, actually, yeah, legendary Dallas Cowboys quarterback
Troy Aikman says the NFL owes it to the fans
who gamble on football to make sure the refs make
the right calls. Quote, there's a lot of money that's

(21:42):
changing hands with all these calls. I think we owe
it to the fans that we get it right. And
I think we're at a point in time where we
can we can get it more right. According to Troy Aikman,
so we ask you, does he have a point? And
I think he has a of course stellar point. Incub
his style. I think he makes a great point. And

(22:07):
as Mike, who runs this place even said, and I
hate agreeing with Mike, but he's right, that guy, I mean, Mike, Yeah,
it's as simple as if we're at the point in
time where we have the technology to see the right
call at home. How in the world could you justify
not getting it right on the field.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
There is ahead on.

Speaker 1 (22:27):
Planet Earth more infuriating than when you're sitting at home
and they show a camera angle. It's like, oh, the
ball across the plane and they don't rule that on
the field. Remember we learned last year that the network
had some camera angles that New York didn't have. I'm
not dreaming this. This did happen last year. Remember we

(22:47):
we found out that wait, wait you tell me the
replay center doesn't have the camera angles that I believe
Amazon had for a Thursday night game.

Speaker 2 (22:54):
Damn buy a right? Yeah? Yeah.

Speaker 8 (22:56):
And this is honestly, guys, why I love coaches Challenge
is so much because put it on them. Put it
on the coaches for wasting a silly challenge. Otherwise games
would take forever. I get that it's infuriating when you're
seeing an angle that we haven't seen. And I felt
like there was I don't know if it was like
a goaltending call or some call maybe in a Lakers

(23:18):
series where Lebron was saying like, yeah, how did they
get that camera angle or whatever it was, But there
seems to be camera angles everywhere, But when it comes
to missed calls, it's actually why I like the challenges
because it puts the onus, not on the officiating, on
the coaches to be able to correct something that could
be so egregious.

Speaker 1 (23:35):
To your point, I think getting it right is like
just the basic fundamentals, like, I get it.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
We like the human element, right, you love element.

Speaker 1 (23:45):
The sporting has changed that because if they're going to
lean into gambling as a source of income and everyone's
on board and everyone's in on the action, and we
know that was a bad call, it only looks corrupt
from their standpoint by not using the technology available to
get it right. It's like, well, if you got so
many people who have money on this, how could you

(24:07):
not You don't want to slow down the games, and
I get that, But there was a play the other night,
and again I'm sorry if I'm referencing a Mets game,
because that's what I was watching. There was a ball
that went off the bat foul tip and in the booth,
Gary keithan Ron saw it, fans saw it, the replay
showed it, but it's a non reviewable call.

Speaker 2 (24:25):
And then you got to ask yourself, well, why not
if all of us watches and money on something stupid
like that.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
All of us were watching and we're like, yeah, you
saw the trajectory of the ball change because it hit
slightly off the bat. If we all saw it, how
on the field can they be like no the ball?

Speaker 2 (24:43):
Well, games could take five hours though. That's why I
do like the limit on the challenge.

Speaker 8 (24:48):
And that's the point that I bring up as well,
is it's not as much about the missed call, it's
about the coaching having the ability. And I understand how
you're saying, like some calls aren't reviewable like that gets frustrated.
That's why I thought the face mask penalty, which I've
been an advocate of years. Of course you can see it,
and it actually was finally brought up this year as
possibly being something that they would review. Then it ended
up not happening with the owners this offseason. But something

(25:11):
like that doesn't need an official to go to the
sideline and look at something, or an umpire to sit
there and hear what's happening. He can get the message
from New Jersey or New York or wherever it is
and then just say penalty and move on.

Speaker 1 (25:23):
But nothing makes me happier Dan when you are watching
a football game and they make that quick adjustment on
the fly because oh, you know, hey we saw we.

Speaker 2 (25:33):
Quickly saw something.

Speaker 1 (25:34):
We changed it with no need to stop down the
game for minutes at a time, no need to go
to a replay. Hey we saw it, we got it wrong,
we got it right. Now, let's move on with the game.
I also think the main point that Akeman makes the
best point is that we owe it to the fans.
If you're relying on the fans to support these sponsors,

(25:54):
and the sponsors are gambling websites, which has been, you know,
a major so of income for so many sports talk
radio shows and leagues, then you got to get it
right for the fans because they're seeing it and it's
an injustice to them. We're seeing it from home, so
the technology is there, it only makes sense to get

(26:14):
it right for the fans. So I completely agree with
Troy Iigmann and who cares about the human element. It's
not about the win or the loss anymore. It's about
the millions of dollars that people are making, and the
millions of dollars that fans are now spending to get
it right.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
I always found the funny when pride got in the way.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
It's weird that this is what's this is what's causing
the change to happen.

Speaker 2 (26:35):
Money, Yeah, gambling, Yeah, me exactly.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
I always found the funny when there was like a
weird pride in an official or someone knowing they got
it wrong but they stuck by their guns. That to
me is like because even if you're playing Rex Sports
or you know, your kids playing Little League or you know,
pal basketball, you ever see like a referee or someone
get the call wrong, but everyone that everyone else there

(27:01):
saw it like, oh he tagged him, and you're like, nah,
he missed him by a good two feet if everyone
if even the other team's like yeah, Blue, it was
you know he missed.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
Them, no doubt.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
Like really, your pride is that strong that I am
bigger than the game.

Speaker 2 (27:20):
It's so weird to me.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
But hey, Troy Aikman's got something there by saying get
it right, let's do you must have been mad. I
know I'm calling I'm calling out a random play. But
earlier in the year, your dude Frankenstein himself number ninety nine,
Aaron Judge hit a home run, but they're like foul
ball and upon replay it was so fair. I mean,
it happened this weekend. You saw a double ejection from

(27:44):
Aaron Boone. Aaron Boone was ejected and DJ Lemayhew rejected
for the first time in his career because there was
a ball that appeared to be fair and it was
just too close to overturn. But you know they at
least reviewed it. Yeah, but he complained about it. He
got tossed. So look, get it right, is the point.
And I see no shame and no crime in that,

(28:06):
especially when you have all this money on the line
nowadays and with all the.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
Robots we have.

Speaker 1 (28:10):
All Right, hey, let's take your feedback, but first let's
go to Dan Bayer.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
He's got an update. Dan buy what's going on.

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(28:40):
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Speaker 2 (30:13):
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Speaker 1 (30:13):
So welcome back to the show Gram program. In about
ten minutes, we welcome the guy who makes his triumphant return.
Not show he Tani now Jean Carlos Stanton, Joey Chestnut,
the superstar, the Goat. He'll be here to tell us
how it happened, what to expect and more. But wrapping

(30:36):
up this, Troy Aikman thought of, we owe it to
the fans to get the calls right. With all the
money trading hands and all the gambling going on.

Speaker 2 (30:45):
You see this all the time.

Speaker 1 (30:46):
When money it sponsors and powerful people get involved all
of a sudden, that's when things change. Yeah, it doesn't
matter why the change was made, as long as it's
made right. I think people are are also like, man,
we had the technology and the ability to get it
right for a minute now, but because because of gambling,

(31:09):
now we're gonna like.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
Try to enforce this.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
And again this is just speculation from Troy Aikman. But yeah,
who cares if we get it as long as we
get it right. I think that we all just want
it to be right without wasting time, like the enbuyer.
Is there a call that or a play in any
sport that you wish was reviewable, but you know that
it would be a slippery slope. I remember pass interference
Danny g where we realized, oh man, you could almost

(31:33):
sort of call pass in aference on any play. I
feel like you can't challenge holding. I almost feel like
if you also challenged face mask, it has to be
it has to be a greatious like God.

Speaker 2 (31:44):
I think of like if you grab someone's mask for
a half a second, Like, is it really within a reason.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
There's still human element involved because the initial weill in
baseball for example, right, if if it's the evidence is
not good enough to overturn, then you stick with your
original call. Well, it just matters on what they called
then how it pans out, and there's there is there
enough evidence to overturn overturn it.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
Right, So there's still a human element involved.

Speaker 3 (32:08):
Yeah, And speaking of money being involved, chet he texted us.
He said, if a cashier gives you the wrong change
You don't say that's the human element. You say it's
a mistake and you want it to be corrected.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
Yeah, especially when it's your money on the line. Right,
What if they give you too much change, Well, that's different,
and that's fine. You know, you just look over your shoulders,
make sure no one saw, and you walk away.

Speaker 2 (32:32):
All right.

Speaker 1 (32:32):
So I'm on teen Troy Aikman as far as getting
it right in the NFL and all sports.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
In fact, I'm.

Speaker 1 (32:38):
Just looking at the All Star balloting so far for baseball,
your boy Paul Goldschmidt, leading first baseman. I mean, dudes
having a season, having a season. He's a Hall of Famer.
You look at his numbers, you're like, damn. And to
prove my point earlier and Dan Byer then the update
said leading vote getter Aaron Judge. He really is, he

(32:59):
really is, you know. I mean, he had a bad weekend,
but he's another circus freak. Anything he hits, he just thrice.
So enjoy your show, hey, return tonight. Enjoy your NBA
Game five now tonight. You know they always say whoever
wins Game five when it's tied to two ends up,
you know, most likely winning the whole thing. Do you
think that's the case, Danny, or do you see this

(33:20):
is just every day it's like back and forth.

Speaker 2 (33:22):
This has felt like a seven game series from the start. Okay,
see it's.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
Almost double digit favorites at home game five. This sentiment
is all long, they should have been the team. So
if they win big tonight, I do wonder Ken Ken
Indiana go back for a game six and then that's
been the pattern all long, right, So on that Oka

(33:47):
se tip, I just want to let people know that.
Over the weekend, aside from all those sports we were
watching and of course had to train your Dragon, which
was number one, I watched this show called Power Moves
with Shaquille O'Neal on Netflix, and Shaq is now the
president of Reebok, which he helped build. He helped build that

(34:09):
brand with Allen Iverson, who's now the VP, and one
of Shaq's priority moves was to get SGA to sign
with Reebok. And you see the whole thing play out
where SGA re signs with Converse but sort of blows
off Shack a little bit respectfully.

Speaker 3 (34:24):
But yeah, it felt like they didn't have enough money, right,
they didn't have enough money.

Speaker 1 (34:28):
So they pivot in a start going after G League
players like think Peate and other guys like that. But
if you want to see behind the scenes, that's got
to be really cool because his mind was set like
SGA before he was MVP. SGA is the guy to
take this brand where it used to be with me.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
Cool.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
But I don't think the average band thinks about those
awkward situations. Meaning can know if you are a star
player picture it almost like a you know, on the Bachelor.
And I'm making the lamest analogy, but it makes total sense.
You don't need to because you see Shack go right
up to SG. He's like, hey, man, I mean we

(35:06):
need to talk business after the game.

Speaker 2 (35:08):
We need to talk some.

Speaker 1 (35:09):
Business, and you know it's an honor, but he still
has to sort of reject him politely and he starts
ghosting Shack a little bit.

Speaker 2 (35:15):
That's the vibe I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (35:17):
It's sort of like dating, like free agency and that
stuff like that is dating.

Speaker 2 (35:20):
Where you have to let someone down.

Speaker 1 (35:22):
And I can'ly imagine if you're a free agent and
you've met with five teams and they're all so confident.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
Like he's gonna come here.

Speaker 1 (35:28):
You have to tell those four teams like, I'm sorry,
You're just not the one. Yes, and SGA had to
tell that to Shack to Shack Yeah and uh again.
Really worth to watch. It's a fun watch. It's called
Power Moves on Netflix. When you're done with all the
great games tonight nice while we are joined by Joey Chestnut,
legendary hot dog eater next hang type, he announced his

(35:50):
major return.

Speaker 2 (35:53):
To the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating contest. Joey Chestnut. Everybody there,
he is our guy. What's up, Joey?

Speaker 10 (35:59):
Good to see you guys.

Speaker 2 (35:59):
Yeah, good to see you always man.

Speaker 1 (36:01):
Hell yeah. So huge announcement, and that's why we brought
you here. He's back sixteen times Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Champion,
going for seventeen. He holds an eight year winning streat
from seven to fourteen. He holds the record with seventy
six hot dogs and what ten minutes? I look at
all the championship belts behind you, Joey. First of all,

(36:22):
I got to ask, well, first of all, get to
see you. Second of all, how easy was this to
get done? Because we talked last year. It didn't end
up the way we won.

Speaker 11 (36:29):
It absolutely didn't end the way we wanted to or expected.
But it's it's been a little bit of work.

Speaker 10 (36:37):
But it's Yeah, we took some communicating and.

Speaker 11 (36:41):
Last year communication broke down and we all kind of
good things don't happen when you're not talking.

Speaker 10 (36:46):
So this year I think I saw you right around
in Super Bowl. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (36:50):
Yeah, it's man.

Speaker 11 (36:52):
It's like almost immediately after that we started really talking.

Speaker 10 (36:56):
And it just.

Speaker 11 (36:57):
Took a while to get for them to be comfortable
with the things that I that were bothering last year
and for me to you know, if we had to meet.

Speaker 1 (37:06):
In the middle, what was the hurdle, man, what was
the issue that you guys had to overcome there?

Speaker 11 (37:11):
There was there was that issue with the with the
plant plant based food, so they we were making a
deal where, you know what, I can still do meatless
Mondays and and promote another brand. But I'm I'm gonna
be I've always been dude. Nathan's hot dogs are one
percent the only hot dogs I was promoting, So there's

(37:34):
not gonna be any confusion. I'm not gonna work with
I never wanted to eat plant based hot dogs on
the fourth of July.

Speaker 10 (37:40):
So there's we just clarified some things and we Uh, yeah,
I'm gonna I'm back.

Speaker 1 (37:46):
Well the competition. Yeah, he's so back. The competition needs you.
Last year, Patrick bertle Edie won in your absence. Is
he any threat this year? I think he had about
fifty eight last year. Any threat to you and your
view on him?

Speaker 10 (38:01):
Oh, he's a good guy from Chicago.

Speaker 11 (38:04):
I've known him since. Man, he's just turned forty on
forty one, so we've known each other for years. But uh,
my biggest competitor is some crazy guy. Uh, and he's uh,
it's me. If I get in my own head make mistakes,
it's uh. But if I if I'm doing everything right,
I can, I'm going to annihilate everybody.

Speaker 2 (38:25):
Man, it's gonna be.

Speaker 10 (38:26):
It's gonna be.

Speaker 1 (38:27):
Yeah, it's gonna He's a good guy, but you're gonna
annihilate beutiful chaos by the ways.

Speaker 2 (38:31):
He You got to imagine is Patrick mad that you're
coming back?

Speaker 11 (38:35):
No, we're competitive eers We if we're getting on a
big stage, we want to compete against the best.

Speaker 2 (38:41):
Uh.

Speaker 10 (38:41):
And so he he felt like he did win. He
earned that win.

Speaker 11 (38:46):
He got a personal best last year. But he wants
he wants to compete against me, and uh, he's not
mad at all.

Speaker 10 (38:54):
We're we're going to be pushing each other hard.

Speaker 1 (38:57):
Joey Chestnut here on Covino on Rich Fox Sports. Ready, Joey,
You're allowed to brag if it's true. So let me
ask you. Are you more important to hot dog eating
than Caitlyn Clark is to the w n b A,
because when when big stars aren't part of it, it
seems to like you saw the w n b A
ratings attendance when she was out for a few weeks.

Speaker 2 (39:18):
Joey Chestnut, what do you think Kaitlyn Clark?

Speaker 10 (39:21):
Have you have you met her? She is amazing? Dude,
I'm I'm yeah, I'm nothing very to her.

Speaker 11 (39:28):
She she really is amazing. And then I'm not bigger
than hot dogs. People were still eating hot dogs on
fourth of July. I was eating hot dogs last year
even though I was in a Coney Island, But uh, you.

Speaker 10 (39:38):
Know this is this is Nathan's hot dogs for the
July I'm I'm happy to be.

Speaker 2 (39:43):
Back, Joey.

Speaker 1 (39:44):
Where do you Where do you meet Kaitlyn Clark? How
does that happen? Like a conference of the goats? Like,
what's going on? Where do you.

Speaker 11 (39:49):
Interact at a Mileingue baseball game in Indiana, and she
was she was there too, and the people from the
stadium and said, hey, she's in the sweet next you.
You want to go say hi, like she's she's absolutely,
she's she's the best.

Speaker 1 (40:01):
I like the other story better. It's you, Caitlin. You're
in the room, Michael Jordan, Mike Tyson, all the goats
take it out, just hanging out as a goat conference.
I like that story. What's a bigger comeback again? The
headline I'm back? I think I heard Jordan's say that, right, Yeah,
I believe. But Joey Chestnut has also said he's back.
So what's the bigger comeback or headline? Tonight? Your comeback,

(40:24):
Shoe Hayes comeback Stanton or NBA Game five?

Speaker 2 (40:28):
Because you're all over the news.

Speaker 11 (40:29):
Today, you know what tonight, I'm going for the comeback.
I want I want the Pacers to get to win tonight.
That would be pretty awesome. Uh, this is this was
bound to happen. I'm just happy we did it. And
now I just gotta eat some hot dogs.

Speaker 1 (40:44):
Yeah, Joey, I'm not even bs and you is there
is there a party of that feels like in a
country where everyone's at odds politically, everyone argues, is there
something about you being back that everyone could be like?

Speaker 2 (40:54):
That's awesome?

Speaker 1 (40:55):
Like do you realize that there is probably a part
of that that everyone's sort of pumped about.

Speaker 2 (40:59):
It sounds ridiculous, but I feel that it's weird.

Speaker 10 (41:03):
Yeah, I know hot dogs. I don't know politics, but
it definitely feels like.

Speaker 11 (41:10):
The people who followed me are from every corner of
the of America and I'm very happy.

Speaker 2 (41:15):
Well, yeah, there's nothing more everybody. Yeah, and you're the
face of it.

Speaker 1 (41:19):
And to back Rich's point last year, not to take
anything away from what Patrick did last year, but it
just wasn't the same. There was a void there and
it didn't unite people the way it normally does. I
didn't hear much of a buzz about it other than
did you hear who won? Because Joey wasn't there? And
I say that respectfully. So I think it does bring
some fun excitement where the country needs it to be honest.

Speaker 11 (41:43):
Yeah, Pat, I think if there's something on TV and
it's a sport, people want to see the best in
the world. And Pat's awesome, But on the fourth of
July celebrating America. We want to see somebody to go
for a record, and I'm I'm going to be doing it.

Speaker 1 (42:00):
I have a listener question from Mercer in Pittsburgh, says,
the first time Joey Chestnut got to Coney Island, he
ate thirty two hot dogs?

Speaker 2 (42:07):
Is that a fact? So you went from thirty two
to what seventy six?

Speaker 10 (42:11):
Yeah, that's an absolute fact. That year.

Speaker 11 (42:14):
I remember my first practice that year, I only did
sixteen in practice. So it's just slowly building my tolerance
and just making my body get comfortable being uncomfortable, and
that's the way I push it.

Speaker 1 (42:28):
He says, as an aspiring eater who ate seventeen and
a half in his first try, I'd like to know
how exciting it is to get the call to be
able to compete the first time, and how it compares
to being asked to come back again.

Speaker 10 (42:41):
Oh, it's amazing. It's uh.

Speaker 2 (42:44):
You know.

Speaker 11 (42:44):
The first time I went to Coney Island, I was
I was literally a table ender that we call them
the table enders, the people who have the lowest qualifiers, And.

Speaker 10 (42:53):
I was so nervous I went there. I was wearing
Levi's I.

Speaker 11 (43:00):
Didn't give it that much thought at the time, but
now it's uh, it's it's a it's an amazing stage
on the fourth of July.

Speaker 2 (43:07):
So a table ender is like the weak link of
the table? Is that what that is? Kind of? I mean,
you made it, but you're sort of the weakest guy.

Speaker 1 (43:14):
So that would be me when we're out to dinner
and I order a steak well done, right, rich Yeah, Yeah,
it's like a debate with the people that don't have
a chance are always like the ends.

Speaker 2 (43:22):
You know. It's sort of like.

Speaker 10 (43:24):
That, either the table enders or we call it the
kitty table.

Speaker 1 (43:28):
Yeah right, kids, right, I gotta ask Joey Chestnut hanging
out on Kavino Richie's back fourth in July. Nothing more
American than hot dogs with Joey Chestnut, remember weeks.

Speaker 2 (43:37):
It's a big story Today. I saw one of.

Speaker 1 (43:39):
Our one of our pals on the Dan Patrick Show,
one of the behind the scenes guys, did that nine
to nine to nine challenge at a ball game?

Speaker 2 (43:46):
Is that amateur?

Speaker 1 (43:47):
Do you think that's awesome that people are trying to
do nine hot dogs, nine beers in nine innings?

Speaker 2 (43:52):
What what's your take on that?

Speaker 10 (43:53):
It's amazing I've been doing it.

Speaker 11 (43:55):
I came close to doing a twenty twenty seven, twenty
seven and nine, but got it. Yeah, nine is a
it's I think most real adults can do them and
do it. Yeah, it's definitely do especially these days. They'll
serve the beers and cans. It's not even full pints,
so it's definitely doable.

Speaker 1 (44:15):
Now, before we get your prediction, Joey Chestnut, we've heard
the rumors or maybe it's scientific fact. I don't know
that you lose so at thirty minutes of life for
every hot dog.

Speaker 2 (44:24):
Have you ever thought about that? Is there any truth
to that?

Speaker 1 (44:27):
Because you've been eating, you've been taking back a lot
for years now.

Speaker 10 (44:31):
It wasn't thirty minutes.

Speaker 11 (44:33):
I think somebody said it was like maybe two minutes,
and so if you calculate, I've ran the numbers, may
and maybe it's like five years I've taken off, you.

Speaker 2 (44:40):
Know, but for the glory, not a long time, all right?

Speaker 1 (44:44):
Hey, I like it, Hey, Joey, as people get ready
for the fourth in a couple of weeks, is throwing
hot dogs on the barbecue on the grill the best way?
Or you a boiled hot dog guy? If you had
to pick your preference.

Speaker 10 (44:56):
Is this a joke?

Speaker 2 (44:57):
Really? I mean I got asked the great, come.

Speaker 10 (44:59):
On, dude, boiled hot dogs they're almost criminal. It's uh.
And you know so for a long long time ago, I.

Speaker 11 (45:06):
Was I was given in Costco a hard time about
there are hot dogs and say, actually, we don't boil
and we steam them, so it boiling is even worse
than steaming. It's it's uh, but yeah, it's uh dude.

Speaker 10 (45:18):
Yeah, you got to be on a grill, either flat
top or griddle or grill. It's a dude, you gotta
get it has.

Speaker 11 (45:26):
To get that direct heat to get the fat and
the juices flowing.

Speaker 1 (45:30):
And it's a that's the way, Joey, when you're not
competitively eating, what is the proper way to have a dog?
On the fourth? What do you put on a ketchup mustard?
Relish onions? Like what's those New York City red onions?
Like what does Joey Chestnut do if he's wanting to
eat a hot dog for actual enjoyment?

Speaker 11 (45:45):
Oh my god, I'm not married to one topping Uh,
so I get to go where my heart desires. But
mostly if raw onions and mustard had a good deli mustard.

Speaker 10 (45:57):
That's that's an easy go to. But I'll I'll mess around.
I love it a good chili cheese dog.

Speaker 11 (46:02):
I was somewhere I had a good Chicago dog recently,
so it was just put everything on there.

Speaker 2 (46:08):
What's your thoughts on the what's your thoughts on the
corn dog? I don't think we ever had. Did you
like a corn dog or no?

Speaker 10 (46:13):
Well, corn dog, it's trouble.

Speaker 11 (46:15):
I've had some experiences where you bite into a corn
dog and it's like hot.

Speaker 10 (46:18):
It ruins my mouth for like two days. So it's
sometimes it's.

Speaker 11 (46:23):
A it's very I've never burnt my mouth on a
hot dog. But a corn dog can be troubled in
the deep fryar.

Speaker 2 (46:28):
It's like a hot pocket.

Speaker 1 (46:30):
It could it could deceive you like a hot pocket
in college.

Speaker 10 (46:33):
Right, Yeah, it could be the magma inside there.

Speaker 1 (46:35):
Hey, what's the aftermath like, I'm not talking bathroom antics,
I'm talking recovery. What's it like the day after a
major competition like this, Because you're putting your body through
a lot, there's a lot of pressure. This is your
big return. How long does it take for your body
to get back to normal after this?

Speaker 11 (46:51):
It's it takes two days to start feeling good, and
it can the day after. It can be really bad
if I got dehydrated. It's the weather in Cony on
Cony Island, fourth of July. It's it's sometimes oppressive eating humidity.
So those are the times where I go in and
knowing that it's going to take longer to recover.

Speaker 1 (47:09):
When you say bad though, like you bed, it's like
a day in bed, you're just laying there.

Speaker 11 (47:14):
I'm lethargic. Yeah, I'm I'm more bloated. I'm trying to
take in more liquids and it's just I'm getting more bloated.
Even though it's a yeah, it's just hard. It's harder
on the body when when when I'm at all dehydrated.

Speaker 10 (47:27):
So but I learned my body a lot better.

Speaker 11 (47:29):
But it's if once I get get moving, I start sweating,
smell like a hot dog. It's the meat sweat start
coming and I uh, it takes. It takes a good
two days. You feel close to normal.

Speaker 1 (47:41):
And speaking of your body and recovery, do you have
ring rust. I know you missed the year, but you
never stop competing. I know that's your lifestyle. I know
it's what you do and you eat all sorts of
things competitively. But I love that your ring rust comparing
him to a fighter. Are you ready, man, it is
the body ready? Are you ready? And what's your prediction?
How do you see this? Panting out?

Speaker 2 (48:00):
Fourth July week when you.

Speaker 11 (48:02):
Said ring Russ, My My Brett and the Gears returning,
I was like, where is he going with?

Speaker 2 (48:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (48:10):
This is uh. I've been really lucky.

Speaker 11 (48:13):
I did a couple of contests already this year. I
made a new world record with Bolooney and Uh in Knoxville, Tennessee.
So I'm not annihilated my old record. So I'm my
body's ready. I'm uh, I feel good. It's gonna be Uh,
just gotta yeah, Like I said, just eat some hot dogs.

Speaker 10 (48:29):
Find my happy place.

Speaker 2 (48:30):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (48:30):
I may have eaten more Blooney than Jony and then
Joey at my grandmother's house in the eighties.

Speaker 2 (48:34):
Yeah, blown sandwiches every day.

Speaker 1 (48:37):
Joey continued success. I'm glad you're back. We're happy that
you're back. And UH always appreciate you giving Coveni on
Rich some time. Brother, appreciate you man.

Speaker 10 (48:45):
Oh great talking to you guys again.

Speaker 2 (48:46):
Thank you Joey Chestnut big return.

Speaker 1 (48:49):
It's not shoe Hey Tani. When you think about what
brings Americans in America together, it's Joey Chestnut.

Speaker 2 (48:55):
Fourth of July.

Speaker 1 (48:56):
My prediction Patrick Bertole never heard of him, but Joey
Chestnut's back.

Speaker 2 (49:02):
Give me this.

Speaker 1 (49:03):
What's what's you're not over under? What's your point? What
your dog spread? Whoa if you're what your what's your
dog spread? How many does he beat? Second place by? Well, Joey.
Joey's record is seventy six. Patrick won last year with
fifty eight. I think both guys improve. I think Joey
breaks his own record. You heard the guy, He says,

(49:24):
the only one I'm competing with is myself. They're not
looking over to see what the competition's doing. They're trying
to beat their own personal records and do the best
that they can. So my prediction is pain and Joey
breaks it by one dog seventy seven to Bertiletti's sixty.
I think Blett really pushes he gets sixty this year.

(49:46):
Joey beats him by seventeen. I think Chessnup brings it,
but he's not going for his own record. I think
he's going to ease his way back in, but wude,
he's trying to.

Speaker 2 (49:53):
Make a statement. Bro, this is his big comeback.

Speaker 1 (49:55):
I'm gonna compare it to Tonight's the NBA Game five
O Casey is favored by nine and a half, So
I'm gonna set the hot dog spread at nine and
a half. Does Joey Chestnut beat second place by ten
dogs in two weeks? You just said hot dogs. I'm
saying yes, Yeah, he said hot dogs. Brandy, Yes your
dog spread?

Speaker 3 (50:13):
Yeah, I'm you know, I'm kind of with Rich. I
feel like he's gonna have to ease his way back in.
I don't think he'll beat his personal record until the
next fourth of July.

Speaker 1 (50:22):
Okay, like you know, one year off. Yeah, little, he's
not the same. But you know what, Rich, it's like
Michael Jordan coming back. I got to ask you this,
it's a lot like Michael Jordan's come back. We're having
fun with her because Joey's a great guy and it
really is something so American. Fourth of July, Joey Chestnut
Nathan oh on the Islands. Like when he wasn't doing it,
it did feel sort of whack like anthy It did,

(50:44):
But boiled hot dogs?

Speaker 2 (50:46):
Are you kidding me? I agree you would choose a
boiled hot dog over a grilled hot dog.

Speaker 1 (50:51):
Hey ask clown, I like to throw him on the grill.
But how many times have you made hot dogs? Or
your kids and your mom or someone throwing a bug?

Speaker 2 (50:58):
That would you? Like? Uh, do you boiled Russell's mouth?
Russells sprout, No, I do not, That's what I mean.

Speaker 1 (51:04):
But Danny g you tell me as a kid you
didn't have boiled hot dogs, and then we all did.

Speaker 2 (51:08):
But does you broke? You broke at the grill every time? Sure?

Speaker 3 (51:12):
No, Sure was different than a family grill because that's
when you were like, this is what hot dogs are
supposed to be like. And the Dodger Dog famously at
Dodger Stadium, one of the reasons why it went downhill
a little bit is they started boiling some of them
rather than grilling all of them.

Speaker 1 (51:26):
Can you know what about when you go to New
York City you got a great hot dog, Like Rob
Parker would say, you get that the red onions on
the hot dog and that's a boiled New York City
hot dog?

Speaker 2 (51:36):
What up? Sam? All right? Get this? Guys?

Speaker 4 (51:38):
So Next year is America's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary,
seventeen seventy six to twenty twenty six. His record is
what seventy six hot dogs? Yeah, it'll be the fourth
of July, the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of America
next year, what if he breaks that record of seventy
six on America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday.

Speaker 1 (51:56):
So maybe he won't break his own record, he can
still win it without breaking purposefully to bring the heat
next time.

Speaker 4 (52:01):
I'm seeing a lot of synergy here. I'm saying a
lot of things sinking up.

Speaker 2 (52:05):
I feel you. Now is time, Last one standing?

Speaker 6 (52:13):
You have five seconds to battle for your sports trivia love.
Put your electronic devices down and pick your sports knowledge cn.

Speaker 2 (52:29):
Ours Last one standing, Last one standing?

Speaker 3 (52:33):
All right, I have four categories ready to go, and
if needed a tie breaker. Each contestant gets five seconds
to stay alive in the round. If you run out
of time or you answer incorrectly, Iowa Sam will escort
you out with his big bad buzzer. You do not
want to hear that, not the buzz We keep battling
until you are the last one standing. If you win,
two of the rounds. You're the top dog. Here are

(52:54):
the contestant, Seven time winner Steve Cavino.

Speaker 2 (52:56):
Right over there. All right, let's go for eight to
his right, ten time winner Rich Davis, you.

Speaker 1 (53:01):
Will forever be stuck at the Tom Brady seven for
favors boils.

Speaker 3 (53:05):
As hot Dogs in for twenty nine time winner Dan
Buyer is the great Steve to say.

Speaker 12 (53:10):
Steve, thang you good by.

Speaker 2 (53:14):
And how much out? Guy? Steve has a pretty brilliant
sports mind.

Speaker 12 (53:17):
So I know I'm gonna come zero time winter eternally excited.

Speaker 3 (53:21):
Better come with it today. All right, let's go to
the studio lines. He's playing for one of our stainless
steel see in our swiggy water bottles.

Speaker 2 (53:28):
Steve and Orlando.

Speaker 13 (53:29):
Steve, Steve Wow to Steve's playing three three.

Speaker 10 (53:34):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (53:34):
Steve's a popular name again because of Minecraft. Right, Steve's
Steve and Orlando. What you do for a living?

Speaker 2 (53:41):
There?

Speaker 7 (53:42):
I actually do food inspections?

Speaker 2 (53:45):
Oh all right? They still exist, very important for the
hot dogs.

Speaker 1 (53:50):
One of my favorite, one of my favorite Curby Enthusiasm
episodes is when Larry saw.

Speaker 2 (53:54):
The owner change the inspection rating.

Speaker 3 (53:57):
Yes it's good ones, all right, by the way is
the fact check in so much a lot of pressure
on him.

Speaker 2 (54:03):
Stress.

Speaker 3 (54:03):
When I say your name, the clock is gonna begin.
Here's the first category, bigger Wood, the biggest. Would you
have five seconds to name a player who leads the
MLB in home runs in twenty twenty five, we will
take the top twenty All right, MLB player leads the
majors right now in home runs? Coveno, You're gonna be
up first as soon as the timer starts.

Speaker 2 (54:24):
Now, cal Raley, cal Raley number one, number one, Rich,
I mean, let's get the easy ones out the way.

Speaker 13 (54:30):
Aarone tied for number one with twenty six to seger
uh Otani, Oh shohey Otani number three with time, thank
you twenty five, Steve and Orlando Evert.

Speaker 2 (54:45):
Let's see yep number fifteen with fifteen.

Speaker 1 (54:49):
Nice Covenu, polar Bear, Pete Alonso Pistol, Pete number nine
with seventeen. Rich, I'll go fred Wardo Freeman, fred Wardo
Friedman not Freddy doesn't have fifteen now.

Speaker 2 (55:08):
Early, Geez, Kyle Tucker, Kyle Tucker not on the list,
Steve and Orlando bet Mookie not on the list. And
I give one Schwart.

Speaker 13 (55:24):
For Yore with twenty two. Let's see your solder strum
from the ace y Orbin Carrol has twenty yeah, Crow
arms eighteen pc A.

Speaker 2 (55:38):
I mean that's the that's one I hate the most.
Taylor war at eighteen yeah.

Speaker 1 (55:43):
I'll tell you what. The chances of Steve winning have
just increased. But lind Door is not the door is
now he's at the bottom. He's at about fifty fourteen.
Danny j I was gonna say, p c A, who's
tearing up for the Cubs. You know when fans all
like to talk about when the player got away the
Mets let him go for like a bag of peanuts,
and you know when you always watch that player, your
team gave up for nothing.

Speaker 12 (56:04):
Oh yeah, the Perca trade not as bad as the
SGA trade.

Speaker 2 (56:08):
Yes, those are volt equally terrible. I think to.

Speaker 3 (56:11):
Say, let me give four number one picks for Bain.
All right, second category here, what's your five year plan
not to die? You have five seconds to name an
MLB team who has the most wins over the past
five years. MLB team with the most wins over the
past five years will take the top sixteen. Steve and Orlando,

(56:31):
You're gonna be up first as soon as the clock
starts right now.

Speaker 13 (56:36):
Dodgers, Dodgers number one, who know to Seger?

Speaker 2 (56:41):
Yankees? Yankees? Number five four forty two, double talk Davis.

Speaker 1 (56:47):
The White Sox kidding, kidding, kidding, the Philadelphia Phillies, that's
your final answer.

Speaker 2 (56:53):
Number seven with four four Tovino, let's go with the Braves.
The Braves Number three with four forty eight Steve and
Orlando Houston. Uh, that's true. Number two four forty nine,
good one. Sager.

Speaker 12 (57:10):
Did anyone say Atlanta? Yes, said sorry, Tampa Bay.

Speaker 13 (57:13):
Sampa Bay raised Number four with four four four four
four four good poll.

Speaker 2 (57:18):
Rich, let me go the Brewers always in the mix.
Brewers are in the mix. Number six with four thirty four.

Speaker 13 (57:25):
Coveno Blue Jays, Moo Jay's number eleven four sixteen Steven
Orlando San Fran sam Fran Giants nine with four seventeen
good one. Saga Padres Padres number eight nineteen Rich.

Speaker 2 (57:46):
Three two four you said Padres.

Speaker 1 (57:52):
Mets, All right, I mean I said I had, I
just wrote down He's snucket in four thirteen, number twelve. Olkright,
we'll give it to him, Covino said, Phillies, Right, Yeah, Twins.

Speaker 2 (58:02):
Twins number fifteen three ninety two, Steve and Orlando, Saint Louis.
Oh yeah, Cardinals fourteen four or four.

Speaker 12 (58:12):
I haven't heard Cubs yet. Can't take Cubs.

Speaker 2 (58:14):
Cubs. Yeah, you can't say Cubs, but not on those
you can't say it.

Speaker 1 (58:21):
Richm three two Now Cleveland Guardians, Indians.

Speaker 13 (58:27):
Guardians were YEAP thirteen four ten two left on the list.
The Orioles Orioles not on the list, Steve and Orlando. Yeah,
there were two left. So we had the Mariners with
four sixteen and number ten and rounding out the bottom
of the list.

Speaker 2 (58:43):
Yeah, right where we're done, right, I think so? Not
being Steve. Oh no, there's two left.

Speaker 1 (58:47):
There was too lot, but I had Mariners written down,
so give me the other one.

Speaker 2 (58:51):
No, what do you mean Steve is still in the game. Yeah, oh,
I'm so sorry, I thought because I heard the music playing.
Fuck user error. We don't blame it on me. You
guys are getting out the answers, right, there's one more left.
Do you want a battle for it? I'll give it all.
I didn't give it away. Yeah, he didn't say it.
I didn't say it. Well, that sucks. I have Mariners. Dad,

(59:13):
Come on, I don't know the next one. Who's up?
Steven Orlando Mariner.

Speaker 5 (59:23):
Out.

Speaker 2 (59:24):
I'll guess for the hell of it, last five years, Yes, yes,
come on, give me a Laron at least just.

Speaker 3 (59:35):
Uh like I know, I was gonna say, twenty seconds
a bust the red Socks. Actually, yes, time ran out, though,
we're gonna give that to Steve and Orlando, So I apologize.

Speaker 2 (59:52):
I heard the music.

Speaker 3 (59:53):
It's not by Paul Right, Covino and Steven Orlando on
the board. We go to the guest though, We go, Yeah,
you guys all did great in that categ Let's move on,
all right. Third category, talk about out. Third category is
called have arm will run. You have five seconds to
name a QB who leads the NFL in career rushing yards.
NFL QB who leads the league in career rushing yards

(01:00:15):
will take the top.

Speaker 2 (01:00:16):
Twenty eight current all the time.

Speaker 3 (01:00:18):
Time also all right, So Covino, you're gonna be up
first as soon as the timer starts right now.

Speaker 2 (01:00:24):
Michael Vick, Michael Vick number two sixty one oh nine.
Rich Lamar Jackson Maar Jackson number one sixty one seventy
three to Seger, Randall Cunningham, Randall Cunningham, number five forty nine,
twenty eight, Steven Orlando, I'm home, Patrick Mahomes nonetheless yet

(01:00:46):
Covino three two one, Kyler Murky Kyler murv fifteen thirty
thirteen at the buzzer, Rich Steve, Steve Young's good one.

Speaker 13 (01:01:01):
Number six forty two thirty full to Sager, Josh Allen,
Josh Allen number seven forty one forty.

Speaker 2 (01:01:08):
Two, boom back to Covino. Wow, I know he's on
a list, but I'm going with anyway. I am because
he used to want to lie.

Speaker 13 (01:01:15):
John l Wick, John La on the list, number twelve,
running times all right cool Rich, Steve McNair.

Speaker 2 (01:01:24):
Steve McNair, Yes, number nine thirty five ninety.

Speaker 12 (01:01:28):
How about just someone who's been around forever, like Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 13 (01:01:31):
Aaron Rodgers is on the list number ten thirty five
seventy three. Coveno three, Baker Mayfield, Baker Mayfield not of.

Speaker 2 (01:01:42):
The list between Rich and Di Sager, Rich Russell Wilson.
Russell Wilson is number four fifty four sixty two Seger,
Wow them out, Tony Romo, Tony Romo not a Rich
is the last one standing in that round. Jalen Hurts

(01:02:04):
on the list. Jalen Hurts uh is on the list
at thirteen. Cam Newton number three, fifty six, thirty one.
That's a good one. Yeah you got number five. Yeah,
I think we got I think you got the top five,
so you're good.

Speaker 3 (01:02:17):
Three way ties. We head to the fourth category. Covino,
Steven Orlando, Rich all on the board. Fourth category is
called pick me up. You have five seconds to name
a player who leads MLB in all time RBI. Okay,
all time RBI. Steven Orlando, You're gonna be up first
as soon as the clock starts right now.

Speaker 6 (01:02:36):
Go.

Speaker 13 (01:02:39):
Waide, vond Wade, Bogs, none of else. Thank Airen Henker,
number one, Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:02:48):
Rich uh.

Speaker 2 (01:02:51):
RBI, huh, I'm gonna go. Frank Thomas is on. Frank
Thomas is right at the bottom of the list. Okay,
seventeen oh four.

Speaker 1 (01:02:58):
Okay, I just want to get a gauge on top twenty,
top twenty five. I mean, Babruth has to be on
the bay. Ruth is on the list the number three
with twenty two to fourteen.

Speaker 2 (01:03:06):
Back to Desager Bonds. Bonds is there five nineteen nineteen
ninety six.

Speaker 1 (01:03:11):
Yeah, Rich, I'm glad I did Frank Thomas because now
I know where we are at. Aaron Alex Rodriguez a run.

Speaker 2 (01:03:18):
On number four twenty eighty six. Covino, Ken Griffy Jr.
Ken Griffy Junior is on the list at number sixteen
with eighteen thirty six Sager.

Speaker 12 (01:03:28):
Willie Mays. Haven't heard Willie Ray.

Speaker 2 (01:03:30):
Mays is the number eleven nineteen oh three Rich, Joe DiMaggio.
Joe DiMaggio not on the list. Oh, man, I'm gonna
be so mad if the one that I'm saying is
on the list. Covino, Mark McGuire, Mark McGuire, uh not
on the list?

Speaker 11 (01:03:45):
What?

Speaker 2 (01:03:45):
Oh that means the Sager gets that right? So is
Manny Ramirez on this line? Manny Ramirez is on the
list at number nineteen.

Speaker 3 (01:03:54):
We have a four way tie, which means we're gonna
come back after the update and have overtime, which is gonna.

Speaker 2 (01:04:00):
Be our Yeah, yeah, our tie break. We love overtime.

Speaker 3 (01:04:05):
The only one you missed in the top five is Pooltholes. Ah,
I hate that, Yeah, Steve Steven Orlando hang on for US.

Speaker 12 (01:04:12):
Okay, and each team gets a possession and overtime, I'll.

Speaker 3 (01:04:15):
Get all right, guys, it's a four way tie and
last one standing today Steve and Orlando.

Speaker 2 (01:04:24):
Let's get him back on the line. Steve, Yeah, three, Steve,
all right?

Speaker 3 (01:04:29):
Tie break the way this works, no multiple choice, it's
whoever comes closest. Just buzz in with your name to
go first, and I'll give you guys a few seconds
to think about this little math involved in your heads.
In twenty two seasons, how many total touchdowns did Tom
Brady throw? Regular season and postseason? Twenty two seasons? Total

(01:04:51):
tds thrown by Tom Brady?

Speaker 1 (01:04:53):
Okay, I'm using it by calculator. I'm not looking it up,
just so you know, calculator. Alright, hold on, miss Steve
is gonna now? Yep, Steve in Orlando, you can go first.
What's your guests?

Speaker 6 (01:05:02):
Eighty seven?

Speaker 2 (01:05:04):
I'm sorry? What in twenty two seasons? Yeah, twenty two
seasons total touchdowns counting playoffs?

Speaker 10 (01:05:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:05:12):
How many touchdowns in twenty two years? Not twenty two games?
Twenty two? Ye?

Speaker 2 (01:05:16):
Oh, my bad, my bad. Eighty eight? Then how about this,
Steve and Orlando. You wait, We'll let you guess in
a second.

Speaker 3 (01:05:24):
Who who really wants to go say five twenty two
for to sayger okay, who wants to go next?

Speaker 2 (01:05:30):
I Am going to say seven hundred and fifty nine.

Speaker 3 (01:05:34):
Okay, Covino eight oh six, eight oh six okay, and
now Steven Orlando.

Speaker 7 (01:05:45):
Eight forty three.

Speaker 3 (01:05:47):
The actual retail number is seven hundred and thirty seven touchdowns.
Rich is the closest seven fifty nine.

Speaker 2 (01:05:56):
Pretty close. Yeah, not a bad guess. Wait a minute,
but every what he went over? Do I win both showcases?
It's just whoever comes closest. Great job by all you
guys battle.

Speaker 3 (01:06:08):
And uh double talk Davis. The question is since it
went to ot, do you still want to send your
your swiggy to Steve and Orlando?

Speaker 2 (01:06:15):
Of course I do.

Speaker 1 (01:06:16):
Steve, we'll send you the swiggy and we'll throw a
cooozy because you're a nice.

Speaker 7 (01:06:19):
Guy, right, all right, appreciate you guys man.

Speaker 1 (01:06:22):
You great battle, and of all the Steve's battling, the
one Rich the one Dick wins.

Speaker 2 (01:06:31):
So congrats to Dicky Davis with the Davis Steve wow
and uh.

Speaker 1 (01:06:38):
Great playing with you, Steve to say, you're great to
see him man, and you you know, for people new
to Coveno and Rich, we were on the air quite
often with Steve de Saga on our weekend show, so
it's great to see him here hanging out with us today.

Speaker 2 (01:06:51):
So it's like an ex girlfriend.

Speaker 1 (01:06:52):
We haven't seen it, Hey, Steve, do you think about
it with snow breakup? Aside from that, it's just like,
you know, he just moved. He moved to another town.
He was our a junior high girlfriend that just left town.