The Best Of Covino & Rich

C&R say Waffle House for the win! Rich is the Joey Chestnut of breakfast! They explain the hot girl paradox of the South. 'THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO HMM' takes you around the NFL! Niners closed for business? Saquon, your MVP? Smashburgers! Rich has a Niners delusion & now depression! He & Covino get INTO it over front-runners in fandom! Plus, 'SHOWTIME MAHOMES TRIVIA' sees Mahomes get fined, again!

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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(00:22):
Before we get into things that made you go hmmm,
week twelve, Sunday Foosball, or just any observations you made
over the weekend, there's forty nine ers observations giants say
Kwon Barkley Eagles has a lot to get to today,
plus show Time of Homes Trivia, a very special Monday
edition Monday Fun Day, giving away prizes later today. But
don't but don't downplay our first thought. Yeah, Calvin Farrell.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
We're gonna take over this get down, take over this
down kidding.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
Yeah, Oh, we're gonna make a mother proud mind it.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
If this dude doesn't win an award for Penguin Award
shouldn't exist. I even think Kristin Miliotti, who plays Sophia
on the show, if you don't know what we're talking about.
On HBO Max, I've been hearing people talk about it.
I finally jumped on board Penguin. Danny g you were
right weeks ago when you recommended it.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
It's fantastic. Jan I mentioned that she should also win
an award. Plus the makeup department.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
It's so good, so good. It's like the soprano. It's
like Tony Soprano in Gotham City. And it all leads
into this creation of the character. The Penguin originally performed
by Burgess Meredith. We grew up with him and Danny DeVito.
Now Colin Farrell, who if you watch you would never
know in a million years that is Colin Farrell. Colin

(01:39):
Farrell's handsome with an Irish accent. They turn this Penguin
character into something that will amaze you.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Just put it that way.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
And if you're not into the DC or Marvel universe
and comic books aren't your thing, I don't get that
feel at all because that's not really what I'm into.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Just just it feels to me like a mob show.
It's so fun, it's so good.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
So between all the football and the traveling, that's what
we were watching on the plane and when I got home,
So it was an action packed weekend we made lots
of observations. One, that show is great. Two, it's been
a weird football season. Some people may be tuned out
because their team is so bad.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
I'm starting to losing.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
I'm losing a little bit. I'm gonna explain coming up.
But I got another observation. Let's start off simple and fun.
We're in Alabama. We're in Auburn, right broadcasting. And by
the way, the Graduate Hotel beautiful overlooks the stadium.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
How cool was that? And it was a great game.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
But we drove back to Georgia Atlanta for the airport
and along the way, beautiful scenery, beautiful women. We'll get
to that too, But we passed like six waffle houses. Now,
keep in mind Rich and I are from New Jersey
and New York. We live in LA. Now, we didn't
grow up with waffle house. We've seen it, we've had

(03:02):
it when we travel, but we didn't grow up with it.
So when we see it, it's like we gotta stop.
It's like fun time, novelty. It's like we got to
get some waffle house. But we enjoy it so much
because we rarely have it that we have to pose
the question, is it the premiere breakfast spot. Or is
it that we are deprived of it so we house

(03:25):
the waffles when we go there. Is it waffle House?
Is it ie Hop? Or is there another one that competes?
I mean, I'm a big breakfast guy. Is waffle House
the Detroit lions of breakfast spots and I Hops like
your forty nine ers?

Speaker 2 (03:42):
How do you view this? I think it's not.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
A matter of well, we don't go there a lot,
so of course you're gonna like it. I genuinely think
if there was a waffle house nearby, I would go
there every week. I think everything from the price point
to the taste to their grits are amazing. The waffles,
the eggs, everything about waffle House, American All Star, American
Psycho Breakfast.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
Whatever it was, Yeah, eleven Bucks. In fact, Rich googled
this as we were sitting there eating. Why are there
no waffle houses in California?

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Did you get the answer? It's simply the price point.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
They can't match the price, but they don't want to.
They don't want to jack up the prices to be
in bigger city, right if they're in LA or New York,
it's like twenty dollars or twenty five dollars breakfast. When
we're in Georgia, it's twelve bucks and you get a waffle,
your choice of egg, bacon or sausage, grits or hash browns.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
Like you get it all. You get all the fixings,
and then you get that Southern charm, you get that vibe.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
It's like you're at an old, greasy diner and if
you're rich, you get an extra big bowl of grits.
I do you do you want to tell the Fox
Sports Redy Nation what a slob you are?

Speaker 2 (04:46):
Or do you want me to tell them? I mean
you could tell them. I really, Danny G.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
I'll sum it up by saying, Danny G and I
in spot we hadn't even taken a bite, we haven't
even taken a sip of our coffee yet. And we
look over and Rich had finished his entire your plate.
No exaggeration, Sam, not even kidding. I don't know you're
a Coneheads fan. I think he hadhaled. He inhaled his
breakfast there. I've never seen anything like it. He's the

(05:11):
crazy legs. Kanti Kobayashi, You're the You're the breakfast eating
champions on the chestnut of it was insane, no exaggeration.
We hadn't even taken a bite and he was already done.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
Not kidding.

Speaker 4 (05:25):
A lot of a lot of men eat like that though.
They just eat as fast as they can. No, no, no,
because they're starving. This is a This was a whole
different level here.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
Know, is that rich when you're down south? He turned
into a rio man?

Speaker 5 (05:35):
Is that?

Speaker 1 (05:35):
It was a different level, Sam, I do eat fast,
but this was a different level of I'm embarrassed to
tell you how fast I ate this because I've been
on dates when I was a single guy. I had
to remind myself anytime I was on a date, like
eat slow, eat so because I'm the type of guy
that just wolves and scarfs down my food. And he
ordered more grits afterward, and we hadn't even like tasted anything.

(05:58):
So based on that before we talk about things that
made you go hmmm. In the world of sports in
the NFL, is waffle house really the shiz bam snappy
the shiz bam snip snapsack Or do we just get
hype because we don't.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
Really see it that often? You could argue this is
a little of that at play but I'm a big
eye Hop fan.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
I grew up International House of Pancakes. That was my church.
It was shaped like old church, remember that one of
your kids. That's where I went to worship the pancake.
You liked it so much that didn't you ask your
contractor if you can make your roof like below?

Speaker 3 (06:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (06:32):
I love sampling the syrup.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
Give me the A frame.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
Yeah, I love the I Hop. I still love I Hoop.
I love their omelets. So is waffle House really the
premiere or does Denny's Perkins eye Hop they still compete?
What are your thoughts on that? Let us know, because
you know we're nationwide. We visited our affiliate out there.
Now we know people are listening all over the place.

(06:56):
When you when you talk about those chain breakfast spots,
I think there's a clear number one, and that's waffle House.
I think if you go a little down the chain,
now you're getting to eye Hoop, and then I think
a step below that for me is.

Speaker 3 (07:09):
Like Denny's Perkins.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
I put a pull up on my ig at Steve Cavin,
I'll tell you where it's at right now.

Speaker 4 (07:15):
Out here we have norms kind of like that. Yeah,
that's I've never I've never been to a waffle house.
They're not everywhere.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
That's the that's the thing right now, fifty seven percent
saying waffle house over Iye Hop. But that's my point
Ioa Sam. I had never seen a waffle house until
my teens. I was in a baseball tournament in North
Carolina or something like that, and like waffle house, I
didn't know it was a thing. And then you realize
when you travel, man, it's such a thing. We just
don't have it. But when you experience it, then you

(07:43):
appreciate how great it is. And those waffles were slamming.
I think people that live there, though, will tell you, oh,
there's one in every town, and they don't love it
the way we are describing, but.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
They're just used to it the way we're used to
having in and outs all over the place.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
That's what I'm saying is that's just novelty for us,
because when people visit us, what's the first thing they
want to.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
Do in and out? They want to double double.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
So maybe we just hype it up because we were deprived.
I'm a big I Hop fan, but I will say
this to wrap it up from my side of things,
I love to think that everything I have is a
bad boy. See this phone roll, check out this watch.
Look at this bad boy. See my kicks they're the best. Right,
So whatever I grew up with is the coolest, right
my new glasses.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
Check out these bad boys. I mean, your self involved.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
And I grew up with I Hop, and I'm naturally
prone to think that I Hop's the best, and I'm
here to say I think waffle House is better.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
I enjoyed it. This is how you know.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
I put all calories and regrets aside and I stuffed
my face and enjoyed every bite of it. Yeah, there
are times Kavino's a little bit of like a healthy bee.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
Yeah you didn't finish your eggs or your hash brush?
Rich did?

Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yeah he finished left finish the rest of my food too.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
So my point is, I'm a kid that's that's grown
up with I Hop, so i'd most likely say I hop,
And I'm here to say I think it is waffle
House because I enjoyed every bite of that, and every
time I'm there, it just really adds the icing to
the Southern cake, Like.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
Oh man, that really made our trip.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
That's my point, Like, aside from doing a great show
and meeting some cool people and being at Graduate Hotel.
That really solidified what a great time. No offense to
Graduate Hotel or the listeners we met, or the dinner
we had, or you know, hanging My wife goes.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
Babe, I know it's a quick trip. What was your
favorite part.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
I'm like, if you want to be honest, waffle House
on the way of the airport, when you could stuff
your face like that in an unhealthy way with no
regrets at all and just like feel great about it.
That's how you know, Kevino and I share the sentiment that, well,
me a little more, I'm more prone to cheating my
diet than Kavino. Kavino's a little more uh foofie with
this stuff. Kavino will be the type of guy where

(09:57):
they'll get like a lettuce bun on his burger kind
of balance it. Yeah, I mean breakfast is basically deserved.
I don't I don't play those games. I'll just eat
more and go to the gym. Markt we established that
I'm not even sure you chewed your food.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
I have some exclusive audio of Rich at waffle House.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
Let's please.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
Seriously to me there, if you have a good burger,
good pizza, good breakfast, and you feel so satisfied you
never have regret, like, oh, man, now if you have
like a really gross burger or it's not really good
and you're like, man, I wasted like a good cheat
meal on exactly. Yeah, I don't feel that way when

(10:36):
I eat waffle house ever. So that was our experience.
So we posed a question to you Fox Sports Radio
Nation is waffle House Premiere?

Speaker 2 (10:45):
And then another.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
Observation, hold on, dB, you're a man of the You're
a man of the people.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
Oh I wonder if dB has some waffle house experience.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
I feel like I feel like Damn Bayer has spent
some late nights after a game, after a night of
party and at a waffle house.

Speaker 3 (10:59):
It correct, I've never been over.

Speaker 6 (11:03):
I love the South, but there's there's certain places that
I go in the South, specifically the CFA, the Chick
fil A, so whenever I am anywhere, because we all
love Chick fil A, but there is something different about
a Chick fil A in the state of Georgia, in
the state of Alabama, in South Carolina, in North Carolina,
it just tastes better. So I will eat at Chick

(11:26):
fil a like seven times on a trip, if that's possible.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
But I've never been to a waffle house. Waffle house
man not. It just adds to the damn Bayer date. Yeah,
I know, you know when we date Dan Byer, we're
gonna have breakfast at waffle house.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
Then we're gonna watch it. I mean, you're gonna fly
him to Atlanta for the date.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
Yeah, then a matinee of all the Rocky films because
he's never seen them, and then we're gonna top it
off with hibachi for dinner and.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
Then go bowling. Have you never been bowling?

Speaker 3 (11:50):
Or since?

Speaker 2 (11:51):
There was something I want a trophy when I was long,
but there was something else on the date. I forget it.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
Win a date with Dan and we're all gonna do it.
Ge't wait, but Rich, you paint a picture I didn't
even think of late night waffle house. That's a yeah,
that's lights breaking. I can't even imagine. That must be glorious.
Crazy stuff happens late at the waffle house. And by
the way, we're not even exaggerating. I'm not the type
of guy to bring you fat guy radio and bore

(12:16):
you with with our love of waffle house.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
I really enjoyed it this weekend.

Speaker 3 (12:21):
I really did.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
It was a company, was great, it was a lot
of fun.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
So observation waffle house observation number two. And I've said
this before and I'll say it again. If you grew
up in the South or visit the South, it's a
bunch of Carrie Underwood looking hot women with the doofiest
looking guys. Dope you guys remember remember the show True Blood,

(12:44):
of course about vampires back in the day, they were
like a guy like Hoyt or a picture like the
goofiest redneck looking up sucky. It's a bunch of goobers
with girls that look like Kerry Underwood.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
So my impression is in the.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
For our listeners on the Yeah, yeah, of course, they.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
Have a bunch of goobers too, Danny J.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
There's a bunch of goober, goofy looking dudes with hotties
that look like Carrie Underwood. And we say that because
we're envious, like Howard, these dopey guys with these beautiful women. Oh,
because I feel like where we grew up it was
the opposite. I feel where in the South you got
dudes that look like Hoyt from True Blood. With Carrie Underwood,

(13:27):
and you go to New York and you got like
a put together, handsome, successful guy and he's with some bossy,
annoying woman that looks like snooky from the Jersey Shore.

Speaker 2 (13:36):
Who's bossing them around.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
Yeah, Like it's to me the South, I'm always shocked
by Wow, she's with him, And in the Northeast, I'm
always thinking, wow.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
He's with her. Yeah, it's a well groomed guy who's
chiseled at the gym with some meatball who's telling him
what to do, and she's like, I only date in
the rules of Sixes. He has to be six feet tall,
make six figures.

Speaker 3 (14:03):
And have in his panthers. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (14:05):
Yeah, And it's the opposite. So sounds like these populations
need to like combine.

Speaker 3 (14:10):
Yeah, And.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
It makes you think I was Sam. I was Sam,
You're a cool guy. I like you. You one of
my dudes. But I was saying, one of these dopey
guys we talked. I was Sam, I promise you and
I want you to take this kindly. Don't don't think
this is a backhanded insult or compliment. Slap a guy
like you. I was Sam living in LA with all

(14:33):
these Yeah, you're surrounded by superficial expectation. These botox I
need the fancy bags and shoes that you're LA women.
And I was, Sam, you go to the South, My goodness,
this is this is where you would throw. You need
a country bumpkin who looks like carry underwood to enjoy
some waffle house.

Speaker 4 (14:51):
There's like a certain hair part they kind of have
in the South, Like the guys kind of comb their
hair off to the side.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
Hey, Sam, let's go to waffle house and get some
fixings and she will looks like a model. Yeah, that's
what you need.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
You're the type of like you're in LA and you're like,
you meet some if you met some hotty out here
in LA and you're like, oh yeah mon on Instagram.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
She'd like what they man, what's wrong with you?

Speaker 1 (15:11):
You go to the South. They embraced the hell out
of you. So observations. Yeah, and man, it was cool
to see, you know. We said, there's a lot of
dopey guys out there. There's also like strapping manly men
who clearly went to Auburn and they played ball with
Bo Jackson back.

Speaker 3 (15:29):
In the day.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
I met some guy in the elevator with us into
a pretzel like those those type of like glutes. I
met some dude in the elevator up to the restaurant,
the type of guy that would frown on us because
we don't change our own oil, Like that kind of guy.
The whole lobby and the whole vibe of the Graduate
Hotel in Auburn was pretty much a tribute to Bo Jackson.

Speaker 3 (15:48):
Was awesome. Loved it.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
Sneakers, posters, memorabilia. The coffee place in the lobby was
like Bow's beans, like it was Is that what that meant? Yeah,
like coffee beans, like Duke to explain this. And it
turned into a bar at night. It was awesome, but
it was.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
A whole mural.

Speaker 1 (16:06):
Remember the Wall of Gaylord, but it was like the
wall of Bo Jackson, just like the movie Meet the Parent.

Speaker 4 (16:11):
Yeah, it was the wall of gay Lord. It was
the wall of Bow. Where's the love for Charles Barkley?
And like Cam Newton, it was all Bo Jackson.

Speaker 3 (16:18):
It really was what a burger When we walked past it,
I saw a bunch of Charles Barkley stuff inside that.
But the Graduate man, it was a tribute to Bow.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
And they had a statue at that bar better than
the Dwayne Waite statue in the bar graduate of Bo
Jackson with the shoulder pads and the bat like the
poster we had growing up. By the way we just named,
would that be the Auburn trifecta in your mind? Bo
Barkley definitely top five, Three of the top five, Frank Thomas,

(16:48):
Frank Thomas, Frank Thomas, and no women love it too. Wow,
I'm telling you it was a great experience. Thank you Auburn,
Thanks for our affiliate down there. Thanks the wonderful ladies.
Obviously we had a great broadcast, but the observations really
lie in the good looking women and waffle house. That
was really My takeaways were men, if you're having trouble
meeting women and you're like a goofy dude, move to

(17:11):
the South and don't take for granted that you have
a waffle house near you. And again the legends, the
sports legends that have come from there, and the pride
of the of the former students of Auburn because we
saw them all there having fun. Man, it was a
great town.

Speaker 3 (17:29):
You know.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
I bonded with Danny j because he heard my order
and he said, I'll have the same exact thing. Let
me ask Dan Byer, who's never been there. Dan, we're
doing the all American breakfast. Let's talk.

Speaker 3 (17:41):
Okay, okay, And.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
It looks like an old school diner. They all look
the same. They have this old school diner.

Speaker 3 (17:45):
Look about it? All right? So, dB, eggs, how do
you take your eggs? Jeez?

Speaker 6 (17:50):
This is a good question because I usually do sunny
side up, but I'll do the last time I ordered scrambled, I.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
Scrambled, all right?

Speaker 7 (17:57):
Are right?

Speaker 3 (17:57):
Sugar?

Speaker 2 (17:58):
Are at peaches? You got your scared eggs?

Speaker 3 (18:00):
Do you want to? She said, peaches to the peaches.
Do you want to?

Speaker 2 (18:03):
What type of meat bacon, ham, or sausage?

Speaker 3 (18:06):
Is the sausage links or patties? Patties?

Speaker 6 (18:10):
Oh, I'd go sausage cosa.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
Now, dB, are you going bowl of grits or hash browns?

Speaker 3 (18:20):
Sash browns? Please?

Speaker 2 (18:21):
I went hash browns too, and looked at me funny.
I went, you got bowl of grits.

Speaker 3 (18:25):
You gotta get do grits there and.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
Then you got your big waffle. Damn Byer, we just
another fun thing we're gonna do with Dan Byert something.

Speaker 3 (18:33):
What did you so? You got grits? You went with bacon,
grits and bacon.

Speaker 8 (18:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:36):
But here's a thought too, based on all the legends
we just brought up. Imagine how many of those breakfasts
Bo Jackson, the Big Hurt and Barkley and Newton. Oh
my god, there was a sitting every time his big
hat through the door. There's no way they were avoiding that.
I think, I'm I think I'm making a plan in
my head right now, me, you and the Big Hurt.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
February, dB, February.

Speaker 1 (19:02):
There's got to be a waffle House waffle House somewhere
by New Orleans right for the Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (19:08):
There's got to be.

Speaker 6 (19:09):
If not, we can go in the Mississippi cruise over
to Alabama weekend.

Speaker 3 (19:13):
I am not that far.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
We're going waffle House with dB. It's so good super
Bowl week, it really is. And it's one of those
things like the feedback will be coming in. People take
so much pride in that when you bring it up,
like waffle house all day.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
How could you even bring I hop into the conversation.

Speaker 3 (19:28):
Which they do have locations in New Orleans.

Speaker 2 (19:31):
That would be great.

Speaker 3 (19:32):
I love that.

Speaker 2 (19:33):
Keep that in mind, think about that.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
Observations from Auburn the women versus the Northeast and waffle house.
And now get this, we broadcasted from Auburn. We ate
waffle house. We came, we saw, we conquered right. But
we got home on Saturday Saturday night, just in time
to enjoy some movies and TV and get ready for
Sunday football. So that's what we discuss next week twelve.

(20:00):
All your observations, things that made you go hmm. You
can chime in at Covino and Rich at Fox Sports Radio,
because now it's time for Dan Byer.

Speaker 3 (20:11):
What up? Dan? I?

Speaker 6 (20:13):
Before we end this Fat Guy radio talk, I do
have one question.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
You know what, though we love Fat Guy radio talk,
because now I'm hungry again.

Speaker 6 (20:22):
When you talked about the bacon, sausage choice doesn't matter
to you if it is a sausage patty or sausage
links or you a strictly straight to bacon.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
You know, I'm a ooh, that's a great question. I went,
I'm usually a goat bacon guy. And then I'll say
a little crispy on the bacon.

Speaker 3 (20:40):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (20:41):
I don't like I don't like to.

Speaker 3 (20:42):
Alter my order.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
I'm not a pain the asshole. I'm not the guy
that changes off menu.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
But if I ever do alter anything, it's can you
make the bacon a little crispy? I feel like it's
odd because most meat you would want medium, rare or rare.
For me, the exception is bacon. Where I want my bacon.
I want it As Danny said.

Speaker 3 (20:58):
I wanted to snap.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
I want my oatmeal lumpia d my bacon crispy dB.
When you asked Rich that question, he got so serious.
It looked like he was in a job interview.

Speaker 3 (21:07):
Yeah. Yeah, very funny.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
Like you're asking me, like, what do you think about
the bills?

Speaker 3 (21:12):
Forty nine ers? Actually?

Speaker 2 (21:13):
Who interesting a great time down south?

Speaker 6 (21:15):
I've just Knowniced over my last ten years have become
much more of a breakfast sausage guy, So it almost
doesn't even matter if it's Paddy or Links. But when
you get a good breakfast sausage patty, like, I just
don't think there's anything better.

Speaker 3 (21:26):
And so that's why I asked the quest.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
No, No, it's a bull choice when someone goes for the ham.

Speaker 3 (21:30):
Yes that is, yeah, breakfast ham.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
Yeah, they offered a dig at the waffle house.

Speaker 1 (21:36):
So now it's time to get into things that made
you go hmmmm.

Speaker 3 (21:43):
Things that make you go, things that make you go hmm.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
Clear the waffle House made us call yum, Yeah, let
me tell you so much.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
Yeah, NFL made us go hmm.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
This weekend I got I got to start with my
own team.

Speaker 2 (21:58):
Yum. They lost.

Speaker 3 (22:00):
That's their mojo.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
They lost it. I don't care about the forty nine
has had a backup quarterback. Windows closed. That's that's besides
the point. It's really a matter of defense. The defense
is state is stinking. It's there's no explanation. I was
talking to Brandon, one of the editors who's a big
Niners fan, as we continue our Niners bromance. We both

(22:21):
talked about how there's just no defensive urgency and are
you seeing bad leadership? Like do you look at a
guy like Debo and some of these guys like step
up and be a leader, Like where's the leadership.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
When there's so many cooks in the kitchen. It's hard
to designate a leader or a few leaders.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
There's so many stars on that team, and maybe they're
just waiting for someone else to step up. They don't
play with toughness, dude, even little things like their red
Wen said that weeks ago, where's Their explosive is their
red zone the fire. Last year their red zone offense
Cavino top five in the league. Explosive you got in
the red zone, you were pretty certain that McCaffrey debo,
someone was gonna sick score a little slanted with kid

(23:02):
all over the middle. You knew something was happening this
year towards the bottom of the league in red zone
to have a nice touchdown though, Yeah, but it's there's
you can't blame the offense at this point, you know
why other than Ayuk being done for the year when
they showed the starters you know yesterdays like McCaffrey, ust Check,
Jennings kidd all like they're all there. I know you

(23:26):
missing big Tret Williams on the line, and defensively you
have some big missing pieces.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
But that team looks as flat.

Speaker 3 (23:32):
As could be.

Speaker 1 (23:33):
And the only only little saving grace that's keeping any
Niners fan hope alive is that Seattle beat Arizona yesterday,
which means the Niners are still yet just one game
behind in that division, and they still play the Rams,
and they still play the Cardinals. It's the only the
only I guess you would say, like hope you're clinging

(23:53):
onto last place in the NFC West. There's a side
story about the NFC West too, made me say, did
you see that Puka Nakua like sort of just found
out that he played in the NFC West. Did you
see that random story? Oh, that's good to know. He
didn't even realize it. He just goes out there in balls,

(24:15):
I guess. But that made me say, hmmm, well, I
think I want to start positive and just say sometimes
a change of scenery. And I think that's what you
were getting at when you were talking about if you
have no luck here, maybe you could find a beautiful
woman in the South.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
Maybe a change of scenery could do you some good.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
Because Saquon Barkley is so good that they pranked him
after the game with a drug test, with a fake
drug test because he had two hundred and fifty five
yards two tuddies. And then he spoke so highly about
you know, playing in Philadelphia and how much has changed.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
He said that he wishes the same for Daniel Jones.

Speaker 1 (24:54):
He said, Look, it didn't work out for me in
New York, and I found a place where I fit in.
I'm thriving and I I only wish the best for
Daniel Jones moving forward that he has the same luck.
So he clearly acknowledges that it just didn't work and
now everything's working just like that dude where he's now,
he's in the MVP conversation.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
It's been weak to week. We had mentioned this.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
We went from Lamar Jackson and Josh Allenson now Saquon Barkley.
We had mentioned this in the beginning of the season,
and because she said MVP conversation, I'll make the comparison
to last year, and we predicted this.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
We said, if all goes.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
Well, Saquon Barkley could be to the Eagles what Christian
McCaffrey meant to the Niners when he was put on
a good team. When you have a great running back
and they're on a mediocre, a bad team, they'll still
look good. But when you put a guy like that
on a well rounded, balanced team, they prevail, right, And

(25:50):
Saquon Barkley is looking like just that. So it's really
cool to say, man, how much he's grown in the
past year in a different setting.

Speaker 3 (26:01):
And coved that prank you talked about. It hit home
because after the game where he had the backwards hurdle.
He was drug tested. That's insane. So they said, we'll
get him. That's funny, get him. He's gonna fall for it.

Speaker 1 (26:14):
So again, now, yeah, after that backwards hurdle he had,
and then he goes and does this two two hundred
and what fifty five yards?

Speaker 3 (26:21):
Two touchdowns.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
I mean, he's just an exceptionally great this season.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
But I think the NFC West, you know that Puka
and Nakua doesn't know he's in right what we are?
I think again, I'm eye rolling Lee speaking optimistically on
behalf of every really depressed, sad forty nine Ers fan.

Speaker 2 (26:40):
There's still only one game out, and if you look
at this.

Speaker 1 (26:42):
Week's coming schedule, if you want to schedule, watch even
this week, the Seahawks and the Cardinals both play games
where they could lose, and you're like, somehow, some way,
there's still this feeling of like, could the Niners just
get it together and do what they're supposed to do?
It really does comno when you look at this week

(27:03):
and you say, all right, well the Niners got to
go to Buffalo, good luck, But you know what, the
Cardinals have to go to Minnesota, which I don't think
they're gonna farewell in Minnesota, right, and you know who
the Seahawks play.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
The Jets.

Speaker 1 (27:16):
And I'm not saying the Jets are a good team,
but doesn't that also seem like not necessarily automatic they've
had a week off Aaron Rodgers like maybe By the way,
speaking of Aaron Rodgers, you know what made me say, hmm?
He never really got that much support.

Speaker 7 (27:32):
There was.

Speaker 1 (27:32):
The relationship with Brett Farv was always a little weird, right,
There was really no buddy chummy sort of love fest
going on. But over the weekend, Brett Favre talked about
his struggles with Parkinson's, but also said that he doesn't
think Rogers is done. He still has it. Saquon Barkley,

(27:54):
he spoke about Daniel Jones. He wished him luck, maybe
he'll find success somewhere else. Speak in a Daniel Jones
change of scenery, Sam Darnold, Well, yeah, of course, I mean,
you know you're right in life, in sports, change of
scenery could be all the difference. Daniel Jones, Danny g
do you think he'd be a good fit now that

(28:15):
your boy Minshoe's out broken collar bone?

Speaker 3 (28:17):
Man?

Speaker 1 (28:17):
That sucks, But is this an opportunity for a Daniel
Jones type.

Speaker 3 (28:22):
It's going to depend on Aidan O'Connell's healthy, herd Buyer's update. Yeah,
he's back at practice. So you know, if if they're
full tank mode, then then no, they're just going to
depend on being in the top three of the drag.

Speaker 1 (28:35):
Does a silly talk? Let me explain why silly talk?
Danny j Not to interrupt you, but I have to.

Speaker 3 (28:41):
But I must, But I must because but I don't
want to plug in Daniel Jones and then accidentally win
some games. And that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
You know, then then we're on the same page because
but there was definitely some buzz about it the second
the second minshoe went down.

Speaker 3 (28:55):
Yes, yeah, two teams mentioned immediately were Raiders because they're
obviously settled at QB and rich Is Niners because of
Perdi's injury.

Speaker 1 (29:03):
Yeah, I wrote down exactly. I just wrote down during
the break. Good team. Now, if a good team is
in the need of a quarterback, they might say, I
don't even know if Daniel Jones is what we think
is the answer. And then if you're a bad team,
do you want to plug in Daniel Jones and accidentally
win a couple and then you now you're like, oh,

(29:23):
f we ruined our draft status because Daniel Jones won
two games.

Speaker 3 (29:28):
In the last five.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
I feel like pick them up.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
Daniel Jones at this juncture is an odd choice because again,
if you're a bad team, you don't want magic in
a bottle.

Speaker 3 (29:39):
You sort of want to win three games.

Speaker 2 (29:42):
And if you're a.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
Good team, is Daniel Jones mid season without knowing your
playbook gonna be the guy to get you to the postseason?

Speaker 3 (29:49):
Rich then you'd be confused because if he did catch
lightning in a bottle, you're like, is this going to
roll over to next season? We're gonna be the Giants.

Speaker 1 (29:56):
Daniel Jones, I think he is going to desperately want
to change the narrative of his career, you know, So
you're gonna see some fire. He may fall flat, but
you're gonna see a lot of effort put in by
this guy wherever he ends up. And speaking of Malik
Neighbors spoke at on the quarterback situation over the weekend,
made me say hmm, because he sort of made it
clear that it doesn't matter who's playing quarterback that they're struggling.

(30:19):
The Giants are just terrible, and Tommy DeVito, Tommy Cutlets
went out there this weekend sort of got well, I
don't want to say sort of. He was completely embarrassed,
but really wasn't his fault.

Speaker 3 (30:29):
The team stinks.

Speaker 1 (30:30):
He can't do anything when the offensive line is offensive.
And as we saw, Baker Mayfield played up to the Jersey.

Speaker 3 (30:39):
Crowd and a lot of people are.

Speaker 5 (30:40):
Like ooh.

Speaker 3 (30:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:43):
It made me say hm at first, but then he
explained that he has a lot of respect for him.
Tommy's got swag. He did it for the fans. Showmanship
is basically what he said. So Baker Mayfield got the
best of them. But the whole little a how do
you do a? From Baker Mayfield made me say hmm.
Let's say it's up to Sean and Sacramento Shawn, what's
up man?

Speaker 3 (31:04):
Sean?

Speaker 9 (31:05):
Yeah, my graduate hotel alumni man. I really just wanted
to call in because how impressed I was A Rich
Davis man.

Speaker 5 (31:12):
I thought my guy.

Speaker 9 (31:13):
Had to be on at least three or four edible
at least a couple one hundred milligram joints to put
down that much food at waffle house. But after talking
to a couple of my friends, Man, just go see
all question, is it the most premier breakfast spot? People
that come from down south and come up here to
California that to try Ihop for Dennys are just visiting.
They tell me it is trash and they always reference

(31:34):
the amazingness of waffle House. I got to ask, man,
what do we all need to be on the lookout
for when we're in those areas? And how much better
is it than any of the crap that we have
out here in California.

Speaker 3 (31:44):
Just there's something.

Speaker 1 (31:45):
About waffle House, the all star breakfast, all star breakfast?

Speaker 3 (31:49):
Is that what it is? Yeah?

Speaker 9 (31:49):
Right?

Speaker 1 (31:49):
I felt like an all Star. I felt like I was.
You feel like Frank Thomas. Let me tell you it's
just there's something rich for the big hurt on those waffles.
It was, it's unbelievable and no edibles. Now, uh, let's
get completely fine. You could just house swaffle House.

Speaker 5 (32:05):
Now.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
Every so often, there's a trend in the food world
Fat Guy Radio again.

Speaker 2 (32:10):
Back to fat Guy Radio.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
You know, like there was a point where every restaurant
was like, oh, now we have Brussels sprouts. Because Brussels
sprouts became popular for a minute, it was like whoever
was in charge of pomegranate was like the marketer of
the year, and there was a gourmet cupcakes for a minute.

Speaker 3 (32:28):
There's always like.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
A new trend, new fad. When did the traditional cheeseburger
take a backseat to smash burgers. Does every restaurant now
say no, no, no, We're going to press it real
thin and crispy. When did the smash burger become the
number one burger? Everybody wants some I want a cheeseburger,

(32:49):
but the smash burger.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
We were smashing it up in Alabama. We had a smashburger.

Speaker 3 (32:53):
But when did that? Is it the last one?

Speaker 1 (32:54):
You say, two to five, two three, four, five years
where the smash burger is by far the most popular
burger you go to.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
A bar, any friend, I don't know. Yeah, I think
in the past few years, for sure, the past few
years at least, who do we credit that to? Danny
g Do you even know, Like who would you credit
for that burger? Was a chain? I know when that
sort of built the hype up a little bit. Now
everybody serves smash Burgers had a double over the weekend.

Speaker 1 (33:21):
I mean, you can't have a single can you that
would be pretty flimsy. I know I have I have
single smash burgers, Like, what's that? It was great, I
guess in the past few years. Oh he's looking it up.

Speaker 3 (33:34):
Yeah, I was trying to see where the smash burger originated.
It says Smashville, it says Kentucky. Oh, I'm gonna double
checked out.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
The whole idea.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
And I have buddies that do it on their home grill,
like you get that flat grill smash those burg it's
it really is. I think the preferred way to have
a cheeseburger now most places you go to smash Burger.
So rich and uh, we'll take phone calls on that
if you want. But back to the NFC West that
you're going to speak of. I wasn't joking when I
said Pooka Nakua just found out that he played in

(34:05):
the NFC West. He goes, if I'm being honest with
you guys, this is what he quoted over the weekend.
And by the way, we say this respectfully. He's a
great dude. We've had him on over promised right here
on Fox Sports Radio. He's a really nice guy. We
had him at Super Bowl was it last year.

Speaker 2 (34:19):
Yeah, he's a great guy.

Speaker 3 (34:21):
He goes.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
If I'm being honest with you, somebody told me we're
in the NFC West. So that's good to know. I
guess that's what Nicoua for real said, And it was
relayed by NFL insider Adam Schefter on Sunday. So he
just realized, you know who his competition is. And I
sort of get the mindset like they're just going out
there to ball and do their best, but you would

(34:45):
think that they know and they don't.

Speaker 3 (34:47):
Did he think it was the sixties and they were
the NFL Coastal Division.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
It made me say, hmmm, that's for sure. So that's
a real story.

Speaker 3 (34:57):
dB.

Speaker 6 (34:58):
Back to the burgers, who really wants a sick hamburger?

Speaker 7 (35:03):
Right?

Speaker 1 (35:03):
Like?

Speaker 3 (35:03):
Am I right?

Speaker 6 (35:04):
Like you're talking about the craze of the smash burger,
but it really is. Yeah, Like, but I would always like,
I'd rather have the thinner meat instead of the big thick.

Speaker 4 (35:13):
With you, but the hold on, now, the thicker patty
allows you to have it be medium rare inside.

Speaker 3 (35:18):
And juicy and juicy.

Speaker 2 (35:19):
That is true, But I Dan Byer brings up a
good point.

Speaker 3 (35:21):
Juice.

Speaker 1 (35:22):
I think it appeals to most because it's they make
them crispy and salty, and.

Speaker 3 (35:26):
Yeah, yeah, it's very there's like burnt ends around the
burger on a lot of the smash.

Speaker 4 (35:30):
Yeah, Rich you were making uh when we came over
to your house to watch a little Cowboys niners.

Speaker 3 (35:35):
Ye're making them pretty thick. And I like that.

Speaker 4 (35:37):
I said, Hey, you really just seared the outside. I
like this, it's very rare on the inside. I enjoy that.
I like Smashburger's too.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
One of my buddies, that uh, one of my softball palace.
He has a little barbecue for the team every year
and his specialties. He's like, I got the flat grill,
brings out the little you know, the little flattening path,
the little iron.

Speaker 3 (35:54):
It's it's the rage. So hey. Yeah. It was invented
sixty years ago. Gets its name from the technique used
to create it in Kentucky. A restaurant worker crushed a
meat patty on the grill with a bean can to
maximize the flavor of the meat.

Speaker 1 (36:08):
Well, let's just say, I would say, what the last
five years, Cove, you know, the smashburger is almost completely
overtaking the regular burger much like they're staying within five years,
cyber Monday will out sell black frouduyt.

Speaker 2 (36:20):
About artichokes, that became a thing too in the past,
I'd say five, ten years.

Speaker 3 (36:23):
No, no, twenty years.

Speaker 4 (36:24):
We've been eating that art choke did for decades. No,
not artist choke did. He's actually pulling the grilled art. Okay,
fair enough, but I feel like, oh, broccoli, I'm sorry,
not broccoli.

Speaker 2 (36:33):
I'm talking about grilled art to choke.

Speaker 3 (36:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
I never had choke ever.

Speaker 1 (36:38):
She had art choke dip and the you know that
became a thing in the eighties for sure, nineties. I'm
talking grilled art to choke. That's like an appetizer option
at any high end rate.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
Like Brussels sprouts, which you mentioned that became.

Speaker 1 (36:50):
We boiled the mass kids and now they could come
up real nice.

Speaker 3 (36:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
My mother never made Brussels sprouts once.

Speaker 1 (36:55):
I think she was just like, who even wants because
their little fart bombs.

Speaker 3 (36:58):
That you boiled and they were pair them with bacon.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
Nowadays, now you just take Brussels brouts, slice them in half,
sprinkle some season.

Speaker 3 (37:05):
I'm gonna put them in the.

Speaker 2 (37:08):
Delicious, all right. I can I talk.

Speaker 3 (37:11):
NFC West for a minute. I'm sorry, I'm obsessed with this.
You just look depressed when it comes to football.

Speaker 1 (37:18):
Well, Danny, I was telling you before, I meant depressed
with this, not obsessed with Yeah, I'm depressed with this.
I mean obsessed with this. I mean depressed with this.
I said to you before the show. I still watch
every week all the games, my Big game, my Big
TV game, and my split screen and my Sunday ticket.
But when your team's stinking, it's hard to feel the

(37:38):
same enthusiasm. When you know your team is headed to
the postseason, there's a bigger sense of like, oh, this
week's fun at all, but yo January once the postseason starts,
and when your team on the outside looking in, it's stink.
So I Dan, Danny G I give you so much
credit for caring so much when your Raiders stink year
off the year.

Speaker 3 (37:57):
I really do. And I that might sound like a
passer agressive ins.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
Yeah that didn't sound nice, But but what it sounds
like you are joining me because you now qualify as
a delusional Niner fan.

Speaker 3 (38:08):
What I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (38:09):
What I'm saying is that's why I think the gambling
has become such a prominent part of the sport. It's
because not everybody's teams in it all the time, and
people want to be involved and be excited, and that's
their only way. I think what I'm saying, Yeah, I
guess it is a little uh, gambling and fantasy sports
and things like that.

Speaker 3 (38:24):
I guess this is a little backhanded.

Speaker 1 (38:25):
But Danny g what I'm trying to say is I
applaud your enthusiasm for the NFL when your team is
never really in it, because that just means you love
the game so.

Speaker 3 (38:35):
Much for sure. And you have to look at the
small wins, things that are going right on your team,
even if it's a very small or short list, and
you have to look towards the draft and yeah, and
you have to look towards the things you know, like
Max Crosby and you can't be fair with and Tyree
Wilson suddenly having three sacks in a couple of games,
like small little wins like that, Rich and then watch

(38:56):
a lot of red zone so you could see some
really good football out of other teams.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
Yeah, it's not fair weather.

Speaker 3 (39:02):
It is.

Speaker 1 (39:02):
It is if you're not as if you're not tuning
in the same way because your team stinks.

Speaker 2 (39:07):
Disagree? What do you mean it's the definition if.

Speaker 3 (39:10):
You're telling my team, that's the definition.

Speaker 1 (39:11):
If the forty nine is losing thirty eight ten yes
to the Packers. I went in my backyard a sort
of me. You only care when your team is winning
and doing good. That's called fair weather fair Weather fan.
What do you mean you're describing that?

Speaker 2 (39:23):
Then, I'm the biggest Fairweather fan there ever was.

Speaker 1 (39:25):
Yes, we know that because unless you have action on
the game, you're gambling on it. You don't care as
much about the matchups of the game. If your team
is dominating, then you care. Yeah, by stinks. It's like
your Mets.

Speaker 2 (39:37):
Did he not quit on the Mets and all of
a sudden he's back in when they're good? That's fair
weathered fandom. What do you mean you're describing? You know
who's not when you're not fair weathered. I think you're
an idiot.

Speaker 1 (39:47):
Okay, but at least say I'm a fair Weather fan
and I own it, because otherwise you're an idiot.

Speaker 3 (39:51):
But rich you're still paying attention, though, it's just more
critical when it's uh.

Speaker 1 (39:55):
When it's thirty one tens board by a Packers in
the fourth and I'm like, yeah, baby, I told my wife,
I'm gonna go in the backyard, gonna I'm gonna finish
up the mulch work I was doing early. I did
put new mulch in the backyard. Does that make me
a bad fan? Because it's thirty one ten and I'm
like aggravated. I'm like, guy, no, it's not competitive at
that point.

Speaker 3 (40:13):
You can turn it off.

Speaker 2 (40:13):
That makes me a bad fan.

Speaker 6 (40:15):
You still check in, though, You'll be like, oh, let
me dump this bag and see where we're at.

Speaker 2 (40:19):
I peak through the window. It's normal behavior.

Speaker 1 (40:23):
But you said you're changing your narrative because we're in
the hallway, and you're like, you just don't care as much. Well,
it's hard to care as much when your team might
not be headed to the postseason like you're watching. But
I don't blame you. But it is what it is.
That's the definition of a fair weathered fan.

Speaker 6 (40:39):
There is there is this gosh, I feel like I'm
in this like world where all these magnets are like
opposite of each other, because I actually think Danny's situation
is so unique because the Raiders are such a culture.
They're actually more of a culture than any other professional
sports team. There is there's a Rangers culture. You're right, Yes,
there absolutely is. There's something about that and being a

(41:02):
Raiders fan. And I grew up in the state of Wisconsin,
where there's a Packers culture, but it's not like the
Raiders culture. There's something that's just completely unique about that.
So kudos to him for dealing with these poor seasons,
but it is. I think it's different being a fan
from everybody else. And while I am a Coveno guy,
if you told me this five years ago, I'd probably

(41:22):
be on Covino side. The problem is, and you see
it a lot in baseball, how are you supposed to
care when your team isn't caring and not investing in it?
And so I think that's the difficulty of it. To
Rich's point as well, is why do you why will
you choose to be miserable you fan?

Speaker 3 (41:39):
Or something? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (41:40):
Yeah, like have it up and they're calling it a
season and they're moving and they don't seem to care.
I understand what you're saying and what you're saying about culture.

Speaker 1 (41:47):
There are teams that no matter good or but like
the Cubs, there's a Cubs culture. If they're good, bad whatever.
People show up and it's like, hey, I'm with the Cubs.

Speaker 3 (41:55):
Yes, that's very lost.

Speaker 1 (41:58):
Yeah, but to me, if the forty nine ers are injured,
Deebo Samuel showing zero heart that the star players are
not exciting, even even if even if they're losing, they
could be exciting. They're not playing exciting football. But if
you're telling me it's thirty one ten in the fourth
quarter and I tell my wife Babe, I'm gonna go uh,

(42:18):
I'm gonna go skim the pool, I need to walk
out of the house.

Speaker 2 (42:21):
That makes me less of a fan.

Speaker 3 (42:22):
Do you think I want to watch this? You know?

Speaker 6 (42:24):
The intriguing thing about this is the guy that it's
coming from as it's Cavino, because he is such a
Yankees fan. But you would, but you would have the
excuse of being used to winning, you know, so like
there's like the down years that you don't know about.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
He doesn't know. He doesn't get it. Yeah, he doesn't
get it.

Speaker 3 (42:43):
I've said this for a year. But I would also
say to the fact that like win a World Series.

Speaker 2 (42:46):
Tent was in college, who they didn't win a World Series?

Speaker 1 (42:55):
My whole life down here for the Yankees is eighty
five wins and they missed the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
That's a down.

Speaker 3 (43:00):
Here for that one. I watched my entire life.

Speaker 2 (43:02):
Until then and still have. Can't the freak out of here.

Speaker 1 (43:06):
You are a guy in your forties that you get
more World Series than.

Speaker 2 (43:10):
One hand, get out of my fan. I've been won
in fifteen years and I'm still on my face.

Speaker 3 (43:15):
Yeah, but they win ninety to one hundred games every year.

Speaker 2 (43:17):
But they aren't winning championships. Oh God, choke yourself. Look,
it is what it is, dude.

Speaker 1 (43:25):
If your team's not passionate about winning, I get it,
it's hard for the fan to be. But if you're
only there for the good times in the victories, that's
what a fair weathered fan is. I didn't make the definition.
I think a fair weather fan has a right idea. Okay,
then that's fine. Then that's your statement and I can't
debate it. I think if you like, if you're Raiders,
Radier is different. Like you said, I said, it's very

(43:46):
cultural with the radios. But even though I think that's
a character flaw, and you're a man of great characters.

Speaker 3 (43:51):
You've been a Mets fan your whole life. It might
be a whole culture rich, but the loss is still
hurt just as much. The one thing I'll say is
I feel like, and as season ticket holder in Oakland
all those years, you know, there were several seasons where
they were a few games under five hundred, and I
still sat there with the Seagulls and I took it.
I took it head first, and in my mind, I

(44:12):
was like, this is gonna make me tougher because when
they have a winning season, I'm gonna enjoy it that
much more. And then John Gruden came around, turned things around.
Suddenly we're playing the AFC Championship game right there in
front of me, and I was like, I was here
on you know, a couple of years ago when we
only had three wins. Now I'm here at the AFC
Championship game.

Speaker 1 (44:32):
No one's stat checking, no one's asking you, Danny, I
learned that. I feel like, this is a lesson I've
learned later in life. No one checks if you were
there during the rough years. And it's not a bragging, right.

Speaker 3 (44:42):
But you know it though.

Speaker 1 (44:43):
You know, when I watched the forty nine ers, I
don't know through Jim tom Sula out there as a
head coll you're describing front running fan, because if you're
only there when they're winning, no, but that's what that is.
What I'm saying is when I watched garbage forty nine
ers teams Jeff drunk Miller and Jim tom Sulla as
the head coach and these Chip Kelly experiments. When I watched,

(45:06):
then when the Niners got good, did anyone check their receipts?

Speaker 2 (45:10):
If I was there when they were bad?

Speaker 3 (45:12):
No?

Speaker 2 (45:12):
So who cares well in life?

Speaker 1 (45:14):
I think whoever you're in a relationship with will check
those receipts. Are you just there when times are good
and you bail when times are tough?

Speaker 2 (45:20):
This is leisure, it's not a marriage.

Speaker 1 (45:22):
Well, I'm just saying it's a part of one's character.
What you're describing is fair, weathered and front running. That's
what it is. You know, you could like it or
not like it. That's what it is. And things that
made you go hmm, I'm just switching gears can come
back to me when the Yankees win sixty to seventy
games four years in a row, and then you could
say I've been there because in your life I could

(45:44):
probably think that they might be one or two years possible.
Come to me when that's my fault. I chose to
be a Yankees fan. I was born into it when
I was a baby. I didn't even choose it. So
you just got lucky. Yeah, so you can't criticize like.

Speaker 2 (45:59):
Hey, but it's like a person who was born into money.
That's like, why isn't everyone rich? Like that's what you're saying.

Speaker 1 (46:05):
Then take a stand and say, I'm not rooting for
the Mets anymore. I don't know to tell you what
I'm saying. You're the guy that also is.

Speaker 2 (46:09):
Like I'm done with the Mets.

Speaker 1 (46:11):
I'm done, and the second day got hot again, you
were all in again.

Speaker 2 (46:15):
Because I don't like that. I think that's lame. You
don't know it, does it?

Speaker 1 (46:20):
Well?

Speaker 2 (46:20):
Then fine, but you don't know it again, you're fine.
I don't think I would do it. I used to
work with a guy. Would be frustrated. I used to
work with a guy, right, this is true story. I
worked with the guy that had a lot.

Speaker 1 (46:29):
Of money in radio, Like one of the bosses was
a big investor, he had a lot of money. He
would tell the young twenty somethings at the company like, hey,
when do you get an apartment here in mid town Manhattan?
And the employees had to be like, my paycheck before
taxes can't get me that apartment.

Speaker 3 (46:46):
I'm an entry level guard.

Speaker 1 (46:47):
He's like, wait, why why don't you just live there?
And we'd be like, does this guy have any clue
what life costs? You have no clue, And it's like
to lose. You're a Yankees fan. Your bad season is
eighty eight and seventy something in eight eight seventy four,
or you make the eighties and everything to ninety five
didn't exist.

Speaker 2 (47:03):
Yeah, they didn't win. Jacktedle Squad, Steve Covino Yankees fan.

Speaker 3 (47:11):
I don't get it.

Speaker 2 (47:12):
It's not like I chose in nineteen ninety five to
root for the Yankees, you know what I mean? So
I don't get it. I don't get it. I'm just
saying I don't get you. You don't get it.

Speaker 1 (47:21):
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want to talk about front runners so we don't lose them.

Speaker 3 (47:59):
Heal, Yeah, let's go. Let's go.

Speaker 2 (48:01):
Just go to Jeff and Maine. Jeff right front running
your thoughts?

Speaker 3 (48:04):
Buddy?

Speaker 2 (48:05):
Can you not saying if you want if you don't
want to watch your team.

Speaker 1 (48:08):
When they're losing by you're admitting I don't tune in
when they're losing. Just because you're doing it and you're
the greatest guy and your polony's a little skimming doesn't
mean that's not fair.

Speaker 2 (48:21):
Weathered fandom. What's up, Jeff?

Speaker 5 (48:23):
Hey, guys, how we doing? I gotta I've heard it
from a different I guess from both sides, right, Like
born and raised in New England, grew up a Red
Sox fan. We sucked from like the time I was
born till like obviously the two thousand and three, two
thousand and four we saw it sucked, and like I said, yeah,
it's going to make a strong It's going to make
a strongest like the kick in the nuts every time
they get oh so close but not enough, and then
you win and it's sweet, and we had a good

(48:44):
run of you know, ten years. But then on the
flip side, I understand the fandom thing of the fair
Weather piece because now it's like we've got this ownership
group that doesn't care. They're going to line their pockets
and sit on their money right and not spend. So
I understand the flip, you know, when it goes to
that way. And as a fan, when you're a diehard,
it's painful to be that invested and then see your
team reach the peak and then kind of get like

(49:05):
happy to sit on their laurels and just take your money.

Speaker 3 (49:08):
And that's what Dan Byer was saying, Yeah, watching.

Speaker 5 (49:10):
Them all the time, it's painful.

Speaker 3 (49:11):
Man.

Speaker 5 (49:11):
It's hard to feel like you care more than the
people that are supposed to build the team you're trying
to root for, and you live and breathe by night, well, you.

Speaker 1 (49:17):
Know, we'll take more phone calls on that and we'll
go over the NFC West. But it's time for Showtime
Mahomes Trivia.

Speaker 2 (49:26):
The mostly lovable Patrick Mahomes. Truth is, I want everybody
to love me, not just the refs. It's time for
some NFL trivia. I'm here, I'm here.

Speaker 3 (49:36):
Yes, we know you're here.

Speaker 8 (49:38):
All right, Patrick Mahomes, here to play Showtime Homes Trivia.

Speaker 3 (49:42):
After that's our security walking in. Are broke? Patrick to
the main studio broke? Yeah, you know.

Speaker 8 (49:48):
I they find me from that Bill's game fourteen thousand,
sixty nine dollars, And it's the sixty nine dollars that
really hurts.

Speaker 2 (49:56):
Fourteen thousands, remember, because I was like, I give the
shooter McGavin. Yeah, fourteen thousand dollars.

Speaker 3 (50:01):
So I broke, Patrick. I don't think you looked ahead
to the board. That was our first question.

Speaker 2 (50:08):
Oh geez, oh man, I really blew it.

Speaker 3 (50:11):
You're fired. I'm putting you on waivers. Patrick.

Speaker 2 (50:14):
What was the first question? How much did you get fired? Yeah?

Speaker 8 (50:17):
How much did I find I was fine? Be fourteen
sixty nine dollars? Well, I did a shooting McGavin against
the Bills last week.

Speaker 3 (50:24):
So Covino's favorite quarterback is going to start with round
two as round one.

Speaker 2 (50:28):
All right, Round two, we have a contested or what Danny?

Speaker 3 (50:31):
Yeah? We do? All right, let's go to the studio
lines playing for a swiggy from the new batch of them.
Here Brad in Florida? What up, Brad? What's up? Be Red?

Speaker 5 (50:39):
What's going on?

Speaker 3 (50:40):
How you guys doing? We're good? Man? Ready to do this?

Speaker 5 (50:41):
Or what?

Speaker 3 (50:43):
Yeah? Really quick? Really quick? What you do for a
living there in Tallahassee.

Speaker 7 (50:47):
Oh well, I'm trying to be a realtor and I
drive for this.

Speaker 2 (50:51):
Man.

Speaker 5 (50:52):
I have my chat, so pretty much everything nice?

Speaker 3 (50:54):
Sorry. Here are the rules for Showtime Homes Trivia. The
first contestant with two correct answers is the champ. If
there's a tie, we have a tie breaker question. Your
name is your buzzer, but you do have to wait
until all three possible answers are read two wrong ones
in a row. We move on to the next question.
Are you ready? Let's get it on? All right? What's up?

Speaker 2 (51:12):
Brad?

Speaker 3 (51:12):
All right?

Speaker 2 (51:12):
I'm here, Patrickholmes?

Speaker 3 (51:13):
Yeah, Round two is round one.

Speaker 2 (51:15):
Round two.

Speaker 8 (51:17):
I was once quoted saying this about how fun football is. Hey,
in the backyard as kids, we had a blast. I
was the QB and my best friend was the referee. B.
For me, it's always fun you're playing football and living
out your dream or see, it's always fun beating a
literary team like the forty nine ers.

Speaker 3 (51:37):
Brad B. Yes, here you go. It was the one
b rad halfway to a swiggy as we moved to
the real round too, well, the real round, which is
round two.

Speaker 2 (51:54):
I'm here all right.

Speaker 8 (51:55):
Which QB leads this NFL season so far in the
number of complete passes?

Speaker 2 (52:01):
Is it a me? Patrick Mahomes, B Gino Smith or
C Joe Burrow?

Speaker 5 (52:07):
I'll go up?

Speaker 3 (52:08):
Oh oh huh uh? Did I Rich turn?

Speaker 1 (52:11):
No?

Speaker 3 (52:12):
Yes, yeah, all right, Brad for the win? See Joe Burrow? No,
that would have been my guess. Oh all right, anybody
want to steal?

Speaker 2 (52:22):
You want to steal?

Speaker 3 (52:23):
I would say, Gino, Yes, get a.

Speaker 8 (52:26):
Nice game, Gino Smith. I had a Burrow by six
with two eighty.

Speaker 6 (52:30):
Does that also include the one still the other team,
which he's been doing a lot lately?

Speaker 3 (52:34):
Okay, jeez?

Speaker 1 (52:35):
What though Burrow leads the league in passing yards and
Tuddy so Burrow on a four and seventeen up the number.

Speaker 3 (52:41):
Yeah, Burrow's in second place. As far as completed passes
this season, Gino is number one. As we moved round four,
Buyer and Brad on the board.

Speaker 8 (52:50):
All right, I'm here who was the first NFL team
to score more than five hundred and sixty points in
a season? A The two thousand and seven Patriots, the
nineteen ninety eight Vikings, or see the two thousand and
two Raiders.

Speaker 3 (53:06):
Brad for the win. He is right, you.

Speaker 8 (53:11):
Have a pat They scored five eighty nine, top in
the ninety eight Vikings five fifty six.

Speaker 2 (53:17):
There you go, ninengrats, Brad, have fun.

Speaker 3 (53:19):
Down that congratulations. Hold on, and we're gonna mail out
a beautiful, shining stainless steel water bottle to Florida.

Speaker 2 (53:26):
Taking on your Raiders next week.

Speaker 3 (53:28):
Yeah Thanksgiving man? Yeah? Wait? Or Black Friday rather the
day after it's our Thanksgiving break yees.

Speaker 8 (53:34):
So I'm gonna beat them and then and I'm gonna
buy on a new TV all right, jeez? Ten and one,
eleven and one Patrick Mahomes right them out?

Speaker 3 (53:42):
Height God, I hope, I hope the Raiders are just
competitive in that game?

Speaker 2 (53:46):
Is that the I mean?

Speaker 1 (53:48):
I could be wrong, but you know me, I'm I'm
always keeping my eye on the point spreads.

Speaker 2 (53:51):
Is that your biggest point spread of the year so far?

Speaker 3 (53:54):
What is the line right now?

Speaker 1 (53:56):
Thirteen and a half? There hasn't been any I haven't
seen like a four teen fifteen.

Speaker 2 (54:01):
The last time the Raiders played the Chiefs. What was
at ten points? You said, your Raiders. I just saw
Patrick and Hallway. He said your Raiders are going to
be two and ten by the end of the week.
And I said, I asked him. He said he knew
that they were in the AFC West.

Speaker 3 (54:13):
What I tell you guys a few weeks ago, I
do not want to win another game this season. I
want them to either have the number one pick or
the number two pick. Right now they're at number three.
So you just got to stay with the Giants. As
far as stinkage goes.

Speaker 1 (54:25):
Yeah, there's a major stinkage going out with the Giants
other Raiders. H Now, let's go to Anthy's phone call
in Hawaii about rooting for your team only in the
good times, and then I have a thought about the
NFC West.

Speaker 2 (54:37):
What was up Andy?

Speaker 9 (54:38):
Heybody?

Speaker 5 (54:42):
And hey, well, waiting on this.

Speaker 7 (54:46):
You know I've you know, lived in Rhode Island all
my life, the pages of course, and you know a
lot of people have this is himself since you know
Brady has left, and you know, I've noticed that, you know,
it's it's sad to say that.

Speaker 9 (55:00):
You know, any time when a team is just at
the peak, people.

Speaker 7 (55:03):
Are gonna hop on. You know, I feel like it's
kind of natural, and so you know, I'm like fifty
to fifty on it, because sometimes people they don't want
to tune into a game that's gonna be horrible when
they know a team has low expectations. However, you know,
being a fan, you know you gotta be all in
sometimes too, so it's it's really tough. But you know,
at the end of the day, it's as a fan

(55:24):
of just sports it self, I tune in whether it's
great or not because I just love sports and feeling
that you're gonna watch.

Speaker 2 (55:30):
But I think it's b.

Speaker 1 (55:32):
It's bs and just fake to say that you care
and have the same level of interest when your team
is good or bad. If you're a Lions fan, don't
tell me you live up in Detroit. You have the
same level interest, maybe just not the same level of excitement. No,
the interest level can't be the No, I disagree with you.
There's no way a Lions fan this.

Speaker 3 (55:51):
You'd be lying.

Speaker 2 (55:52):
You're telling me a Lions fan now.

Speaker 1 (55:54):
You're packing the stadium, then they're real fans. A Lions
fan now who is all out? Amara Saint Brown. We're
excited and Laporta and Goff and y'all look at this team,
but they're motivated their coaches that.

Speaker 3 (56:06):
There's no way those guys that the route. The guys
and girls are.

Speaker 1 (56:11):
Root of the Lions were as excited when it was
like Matt Patricia or something like there's some other Jim
Schwartz and I like the I like the sport, you know,
I just do, so I'll just watch. I like watching
sports that's not always gonna be good.

Speaker 2 (56:26):
You don't see the jaden nature of being a Yankees fan.

Speaker 3 (56:30):
No, how do you not? Though? I was Sam? Is
it because I watched that?

Speaker 2 (56:34):
No matter what, I'm gonna watch.

Speaker 1 (56:35):
Yeah, But no matter what for you as eighty something
wins or one hundred wins, if watching for you meant
sixty wins or ninety wins, don't tell me the sixty
win seasons would intrigue you as much. That's just lying.
You just haven't been. It's like, uh, I also know
people that watch because they love to watch, and then
people that watch because they love to bet. So it's like, well,
what do you really love just to watch your team win?

Speaker 3 (56:57):
Did? There's still storylines too, rich I've heard the long
baseball season kind of compared to like soap operas in
a way. You have to know all the characters, the
moving parts, the storylines, everything going on with that seed.
Sometimes yeah, and sometimes the storylines differ per season. They
obviously do based on winning or losing. But you still,
as a fan of that team, you should be there

(57:20):
with them on that ride.

Speaker 1 (57:21):
I refuse to, I refuse to have the same level
of interest from when the team stinks. For you not
to acknowledge your jaded Yankees fan, for you to acknowledge,
don't try to flip this conversation. For you not to
acknowledge that you're describing that you yourself are a fair
weathered fan is insane because.

Speaker 2 (57:43):
That's what you're describing, but not me. That's the insanity.
You you're just trying to You're like the per mental
gymnastics here. You're like the person. No, you said that
you're not interested in football this season because your team states.
I say that, but I'm not a fair weathered fan.

Speaker 1 (57:59):
You said as a season, and my team doesn't feel
very postseason automatic. If you're immune to exactly what you're describing,
that's the insanity. I'm just making it clear that that's
what you're saying. I'm not saying you're wrong. I can't
wait for there to be a day. Yeah, but when
there's a day day, I think I'm still watching. If
the yan You think when the Yankees at Bobby meets

(58:20):
him at shortstop, they were slaying it. No, but I
was watching it. What are you talking about?

Speaker 3 (58:25):
You watch it?

Speaker 2 (58:25):
You were on watch every day when you were a
little boy. Gad of my face.

Speaker 1 (58:28):
You don't know anything, guys, You only watch because you
got money on it. Live from the Tireck dot Com
Studio again, quick reminder. We got Monday Night Football Tonight
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be here another chance to win a CNR Swiggy, that's

(58:52):
your chance to win tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (58:53):
Here on the show in your lifetime, Yeah, in my lifetime.

Speaker 1 (58:58):
They didn't make the playoff until ninety one, ninety five,
but saighty one doesn't count. I'm looking at the stats
since you was five, since you were born late seventies,
the Yankees have had two under five hundred seasons. Don't
mean Jack did Lee squad. You're playing by today's standard.
They didn't make the playoffs till ninety five. Now you're

(59:19):
using stats based on today's standard. Get out of here
with this.

Speaker 2 (59:23):
Here's what I think, but it doesn't apply to me.

Speaker 3 (59:26):
Guys, go then apply to me.

Speaker 1 (59:28):
Let's talk some NFC West real quick, because we're schedule watching.
I'm looking ahead to what's coming up over the next month.

Speaker 8 (59:35):
Like the rich loves to look at the schedule, game schedule,
watch it.

Speaker 3 (59:41):
It is fun.

Speaker 2 (59:41):
You have sold me on this that going.

Speaker 1 (59:43):
I'm gonna tell you right now, as much as I
feel like by forty nine, ers are dead in the
water at five and six.

Speaker 2 (59:49):
Their next four games Bills, Bears.

Speaker 3 (59:53):
Rams, Battlestar Galactica, Dolphins.

Speaker 1 (59:55):
Yeah, you gotta go down with this shit man like
Captain what's his name from the Titanic?

Speaker 2 (01:00:01):
Smith?

Speaker 3 (01:00:02):
What's his last name? Smith?

Speaker 1 (01:00:04):
I'm just talking about how I wish you were on
a door with Rose and she's like, not only enough
space for meus, right, you gotta go down with the ship,
like Captain Smith. Dude, can't just be there when McCaffrey's dominating.

Speaker 3 (01:00:16):
You gotta go down with your team.

Speaker 1 (01:00:17):
I'm saying is that I think that if the Niners
go three and one over the next four three and one,
they would be eight and seven. Now, if you look
at the other teams in the division, how do you
get the Seahawks and the Cardinals? They eight and seven.
The Cardinals right now are six and five. They're playing
the Vikings six and six. They're playing the Seahawks again.

(01:00:37):
One of them needs to lose. Let's say we give
them that one. They're seven and six. Then they play
the Patriots. I should win that. I think that the
forty nine ers, oddly enough, are still not dead ducks.
You know, it's the toughest schedule of ald energy. Dad's quantastic.
The Seahawks quack quack back. What's about the Seahawks have

(01:00:59):
coming up? They're techally in first place right now, but
the Seahawks net next month includes the Jets, which I
don't think is.

Speaker 2 (01:01:06):
I don't think it's a layup. Believe it or not,
I don't.

Speaker 1 (01:01:07):
You might call me crazy, but Aaron Rodgers has to
have a good game once in a blue moon. Then
they played the Cardinals, they play the Packers and the
Vikings back to back. The Seahawks are not going to
like win out. So I still think there the Seahawks
were gonna win this weekend. I think there's a pipe
dream that the Niners are still okay. I'm clinging on
like a clingon have a good time tonight. I don't

(01:01:29):
know what to pick. You know, Jim Harborough will probably
win tonight because he didn't win when it matters.

Speaker 2 (01:01:33):
We'll discuss it tomorrow. There see you in the promise Land.