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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, thanks for listening to the best of Gabino and
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searching FSR. You woke up and you got the sad

(00:24):
news that Gene Hackman, ninety five, and his sixty four
year old wife were found in their Santa Fe home
dead with their dog. And at first it was no
foul play. They're dead carbon monoxide poisoning is what you heard.
But as of this afternoon, you're now hearing ooh, suspicious
details and that's odd, that's weird again. Ninety five year

(00:48):
old guy, he had a great life. But they did
find pills and the wife's body next to a personal
heater and weird things like that, and it's like, well,
what was going on there? And like partially embalmed or something.
That's what our buddy Spot was reading to us earlier.
You're like, why we details are coming out as we go.

(01:08):
We may never know the reality is that they're gone,
and what do we really need to find out. But
I did have a But it's an odd ending to
a long life, an illustrious career. It's like you lived
to ninety five and have all that success.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, rich detectives aren't going to say, oh, we're never
We'll never know.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
There will be an investigation, I'm sure, But I feel
like you, if you lived to ninety five, that's a
hell of a life and a successful life at it. So,
but his wife was so much younger, Yeah, thirty years younger.
So that's an unfortunate story. When I heard the carbon
monoxide thing, I thought, oh, maybe Gene Heckman was feeling
like it was coming to an end health issues just

(01:46):
because of old age. And maybe the wife I was
thinking I was romanticizing the whole thing, like, and maybe
the wife didn't want to live without him and they
decided to go out together.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah, that wouldn't be fair to the dog, though, you
give the dog to family or friends.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
They did find two other dogs that were alive. But again,
in honor of Gene Hackman and his role in Hoosiers,
we're gonna go over the best coaches and sports in
TV and film. Get on over promised, and we're gonna
talk some nasty nester. Now it's a weird story though. Yeah, man,

(02:19):
I have a vain question to hey, I guess lighten
it up a little bit. If you lived till ninety
five years old, First of all, you've won the lottery
of life, famous actor, mid millions and lived to ninety
five two oscars. I mean, here's my question. Enemy of
the State, Superman Lex Luthor. He was in the Royal

(02:42):
He also, wasn't he in that movie where Jennifer Lovehewitt
was bouncing around in her twenties? You know what harsh?
She was so distracting. I don't remember seeing anything but.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
Yeah with a was a Sigourney Weaver or a Yeah,
I think Heartbreakers?

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Heartbreakers? Yeah, I didn't even notice he was in it.
Boying vain when you lived that long and they pay
tribute to your life at your wake, your funeral. If
you're a public figure like a Gene Hackman, do you
want your picture to be one of you when you
were a handsome young man? Because I'm seeing so many

(03:16):
pictures of the ninety five year old went on a
decrepit walk around the block a year ago picture and
I'm like, that's not how you want Gene Hackman, remember,
you want him to be remembered as the badass he was,
Like Ia Sam said, Winning Oscars, Superman.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
And French connection.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Depends how politiced life you lived, meaning if you died,
let's say you die in your sixties. Unfortunately, right, you've
lived the majority of your life as a younger person,
So I would think it would be fair to pick
a picture in your thirties forties, when you're still relatively young.
But if you were synonymous with looking like an old

(03:52):
guy for a long time, you lived just as much
of your life as an old person, why would you
want to bring it back to your primo days of
your two he's in thirties. It's not who you were
for the latter part of your long ass line though.
But if you're Marl Brando Brando, you want to be
old fat guy in your pictures. You want to be
a street car named Desira Marlon Brando. Yeah, but we

(04:12):
we work in the entertainment industry, right. It's like the
people that still have their head shots from their twenties.
It's like, yo, dude, you haven't been looking like that
for the past twenty years. That's also like false advertising.
A weird way.

Speaker 4 (04:24):
I'll tell you I think I don't think it's a
vain comment, Rich, I actually think it's a realistic comment
and not to bring anything down. But unfortunately, my mother
in law passed away in twenty eighteen.

Speaker 5 (04:36):
My father in law is still alive.

Speaker 4 (04:37):
And after that, after his wife's passing, he wanted a headshot.

Speaker 5 (04:43):
He wanted like a photo of himself.

Speaker 4 (04:46):
And so at some point, you know, like six months
later or whatever, my wife ended up taking him for
that reason of he wanted, you know, a legitimate photo
to represent it.

Speaker 5 (04:58):
Yes, that represented who he was at that time.

Speaker 4 (05:00):
It was her passing that made him realize that I
should I should get this done.

Speaker 5 (05:04):
I don't have this.

Speaker 4 (05:05):
We used a great picture of her from you know,
from a family situation, but it wasn't a posed studio
picture and he wanted that for when he went. So
it's a real like it's not a I don't think
it's vanity by any means. I think it's like a
realistic decision that you eat.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
That's a really great story, Dan, you know, that's talking
about thinking ahead man. And I was going to say this,
but Dan already said it. Kind of when they chose
your mother in laws. They looked for a good photo.
I think the best answer here is where do you
look your happiest?

Speaker 5 (05:37):
Sure?

Speaker 1 (05:37):
Right, So if you didn't do what Dan's father in
law did, then you just got to get that happiest
photo of the happiest time of your life, whether you
were older or younger. You know, it's an interesting question,
it really is, because Rich is right. If you look
through all the tmzs and all the stories that are
talking about Gene Hackman, it's not him as a young
man wearing an ascot as Lex Luthor. A lot of

(05:59):
it is his recent days when he was ninety four
years old walking around town. And it doesn't even look
like the guy you remember. I mean, think of a
sports figure that passed away over the last couple of years.
John Madden lived a nice life, bro. I don't expect
Mutton chop on, you know, being carried off the field
John Madden. But I don't want the final days John Madden.

(06:21):
How about you know when he was in his primo
days in the booth, would Pat Summer all and the
world knew him in then maybe the nineteen nineties, John Madden,
How do you want to be remembered is really I
guess the question, and it's not your happiest I don't
know if. And again, unfortunately, people die at all different ages, Rich,
I remember the one thing. John Madden had a long career.

(06:41):
We remember at different stages of his life, So you
want to pick one that's somewhat recent, but it's not
your dying days. I remember seeing a story on the
news and please, I'm not trying to make a light
of this. I remember thinking, this is terrible. There was
a story about a younger person who lost their life
and the news used to picture them with like a

(07:03):
bunny ear filter from Instagram. No, that's true. I remember that,
and I remember being like, the family said, this is
the what are we doing? Well, unfortunately that's the world
that we kind of live in now.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
If the family doesn't provide a photo, they have to
go hunting for one online. Right, that was the only
one they could find. Ye actually, who knows, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
Trying to find a picture of a young person without
a film. Jane Johnson passed away, and I'm like, she
has a dog nose filter on what do we come on?
I remember that because in the most respectful way possible,
we laughed at, not necessarily the announcement, but the times
that we're living in, Like, can you believe that's the photo?
They're using? Fortunate story and that's what we put up.

(07:42):
So you know, again, maybe it isn't a vain thought.
It's a real life thought, which is, if you live
in nice, long life, maybe it's a picture of you,
God willing you lived to a nice old age, a
picture of you with your grandkids because you're at your happiest.
Maybe you as a middle aged man or woman when
you were in your prime of working and everything. Okay,
So to answer your question though, right Gene Hackman ninety five,

(08:03):
My point is I'm done seeing ninety four year old
Gene Hackman photos. I think it's a disrespect because he
was the man. He was in a lot of great stuff,
and he lived a great life. I don't think every
press photo should be when he was wearing a pair
of a new balance taking a walk for the first time,
and again nineteen, you know, at ninety four years old,
last year. Well, and I also don't think it should
be a picture of him in his twenties or even thirties,

(08:26):
because he lives a long life.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
Your sixties no, that's how we remember Gene Hackney exactly.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
If you go back Royal Town and Baums was filmed
in two thousand and one as twenty five years ago, right,
that would have made him seventies, seventies, early seventies. That's
kind of how I remember him in the most department.
So I think that's good. You got to find a
compromise there. Let me give you one more. When the
late great Betty White passed away, there were too many

(08:52):
pictures floating around of like her final days, and I'm like, no, no,
that was criticized. Golden Girls, Betty White h always so
all the different you know with Saturday Night Live. Then yeah,
like like I just thought it was like in bad taste,
like so her last living photo was.

Speaker 4 (09:06):
Like, no, like an unhealthy looking I'll tell you what
you're madden. I'm I'm now starting to rethink you're maddened point.
Maybe it is being carried off with the yes, if
that is your high point of your profession and where
you are, like, that's a that's got to be a
Mount Rushmore part of his life outside of his children
being born, but probably the George Washington of the Mount

(09:28):
Rushmore part of his life. That wouldn't be a bad
pick considering we've seen John Madden throughout the years, so
I think that could be justified at that point. If
Gene Hackman's picture was him winning the Oscar, I don't
think that's entirely necessarily a bad thing if it is
the top, top of your profession.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
What did they use when Michael Jackson passed away? Did
they use like young Jackson five stuff? Probably not. Did
they use like I look a little odd in the
final days Michael Jackson?

Speaker 5 (09:54):
Did they use marble? It was mostly the thriller.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
I mean they should have used the thrill er. That's
he looked his best Based on that to Tywood, Dan
said about Madden, maybe it is when were you your happiest.
If you're a regular person like all of us, when
were you at your personal best and happiest, Or if
you're a celebrity, maybe it is when you were in
your problem. So then pick a picture of me at
about fourteen before women got in the picture, because I

(10:21):
feel like they took that's what you are your best? Yeah,
when made my life more of a hassle than it's
been worth. Just kidding, No, I'm not, Yes, I am,
But here's Gene Hackman Royal Tan and bounce like that's fair.
He's older, but he's not ninety five, so he's in
his seventies, like early seventies there, early, but he still
looks like Gene Hackman and healthy and happy. So do

(10:42):
you go with your happiest where you looked your If
you say rich, that's when I looked my best, then
I think it's a vanity thing. That's where I was
my best. I think that's a fair assessment. Cool. Could
I throw you a little uh side tangent question as
we say rest in peace, Gene Hackman and family. Sure,
we're gonna go over the best fictional coaches on the

(11:03):
Bonus Pod later, but I want to go around the
room and I want everyone to dig deep inside and
be honest and admit one classic sports movie you've never seen,
because I'm man enough to admit it in this moment.
I've never seen Hoosiers, and people deem that arguably the

(11:24):
greatest sports movie.

Speaker 5 (11:25):
Of all time.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
I've never seen The Miracle a lot of people, and
there's a part of me that's like, yeah, I don't know,
Maybe my dad or family never watch it. Eighty six
so I was a little boy. You know, I was
in kindergarten in eighty six, so maybe he wasn't in
my wheelhouse. I mean, it's not an excuse. So movies
live on. You weren't even born when Rocky came out.
You've seen Rocky, that is true. But is there a

(11:47):
movie like Cavino has never seen The Mighty Ducks. Yeah,
I'm not embarrassed by that, but it's true. You should
be a little embarrassed. Why, dude, I just U sports
movie okay came out? You said, the last one came
out in ninety four, the first, the first one came
out to get into college ninety four. Gordon Kids in
My Life, Gordon Bombay, Yeah, nineteen ninety two, Mighty Ducks, Okay,

(12:11):
junior high. I'm all about playing junior high baseball, you know,
trying to go out with my girlfriend, trying to squeeze
a cheek here and there. You think I'm going to
watch The Mighty Ducks in the theaters. Honestly, it was
just it's a timing thing, that's all. I find that
my daughter showed zero interest in that movie. As I
became a dad. If I ever have a little son,

(12:32):
one day. Maybe he wants to watch The Mighty Ducks.
I'll check it out. But I wouldn't put that even
in the same sentence as a Hoosiers not just belongs
in a movie with like in a sentence with the
Miracle argue Mighty Ducks argue The Mighty Ducks is more
popular than who is out of my face?

Speaker 5 (12:48):
Dude?

Speaker 1 (12:49):
Out of here with you? I would say, how many
classic sports movie you'll admit? Yeah, you just somehow missed?

Speaker 3 (12:53):
Yeah, I wrote a couple down actually, the old the
original and the newer one, the newer version of Bad
News Bears. Never seen it, and I never seen lap
Shot with Paul Newman.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
Oh I never see you. I'm Sam. That's a that's
a good one because I think if you are in
your thirties or so, slapshot might be a little old.

Speaker 3 (13:09):
That might be like right on the threshold of math,
like I've seen I love arts and movies from like
the seventies. Was some slapshot like what late seventies, early
eighties something with that, So I go back and I
watched it was I just haven't seen it, and I
love Paul Newman, and like the Bad News Bears thing
is like maybe you were a kid at the time
when you saw the original or the new one with
Billy Bob, and like I just never got around to it.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
I lost my best. Would have never saw Brian's song
if we didn't watch it in school. I've north Dallas
forty some classics that you may have seen your dad
watching growing up. I've heard Colin Cowherd talk about how
that's the most emotional movie that can make any man cry.
And we watch it in like a film class in
college day Ryan's school, and I remember I remember getting

(13:48):
emotional as well. Watched it in school. But you know,
a film from seventy two. I don't know if I
would have watched it on my own. It didn't air
on TV all that often. I don't remember for that,
but yeah, I did watch it. For me, it would
be The Mighty Ducks. I guess if it's as great
as you say it is, I'm not saying it's not good,
and I'm not saying that kitty sports movies can't be good.

(14:09):
I love the Sad Lot. I know, Uh, Richie are
big angels in the outfield guys the classic, But I
never saw it. Anything come to mind that you missed
Man never saw Rocky.

Speaker 4 (14:20):
Well, yes, that's that's exactly right. Because Sam can't just
give one answer. He always has to give like seven
you l before anybody else's. So I was gonna say, slapshaw. Well,
nobody else has chimed in yet, Sam.

Speaker 5 (14:31):
That's the problem.

Speaker 4 (14:32):
I mean, I don't take seven pieces of pizza from
an eight sliced pizza.

Speaker 1 (14:35):
There's a lot of sports the one slice.

Speaker 4 (14:37):
And if everybody goes around like I got two of
these two and then of course it don't Mighty Ducks.

Speaker 3 (14:43):
And you haven't seen many sports movies. There a lot,
I know, but it's.

Speaker 4 (14:46):
Just the fact that you had. You can't not help
but name three movies. Thanks replacements replacements with Janu Reeves
have not seen that.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
By the way, Geen Hackman in that movie.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
Yeah, okay, yeah, And this sounded like a rap port
versus Schultz.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
I was gonna say, you got I.

Speaker 5 (15:06):
Don't want any part of that beef. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
I wrote down one here, and I know it has
a cult following, but we weren't even in elementary school
when it came out. I've never seen Caddy Shack all
the way through. Oh wow, he seen parts of it.
You know when it's rerun on TV. But yeah, I've
never sat down and watched it from no.

Speaker 1 (15:23):
I thought of Caddyshack the other day when Dan Byer
was talking about some of the things that we hated
at first but now we like. He said that he
hated when people played their music on the golf course.

Speaker 5 (15:34):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (15:34):
It was never a thing, and now he sort of
likes it. It provides some sort of atmosphere. You're having
a good time out there. Everyone has their own little
personal speaker going on. Part of the joke was Rodney
Dangerfield was so disruptive that he had like a system
in his golf bag. Yeah, and he's playing his music
and everyone's ted night and everybody hates him. Oh that's great,

(15:57):
so ahead of its time. It was ahead of its time.
But like the joke wouldn't even translate maybe to some people,
like he's playing music, so.

Speaker 3 (16:03):
What get a beer tap on his golf bag here?

Speaker 1 (16:06):
Which is legendary.

Speaker 5 (16:07):
Serious poor caddy oh man.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
But Danny g wouldn't know because he's never seen it.
So you know what, as as you know, you have
little kids now where a lot of us are dads
in the room, do you go back to the Well
and Danny g You're some co is won At any
point you get be like bad News, bear Son, Major
League sand Lata, feel the dreams? Or is that generation

(16:29):
just not gonna care?

Speaker 5 (16:30):
No.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
I think there's a handful of movies where we're like
got to share this. Like my step children they had
never seen Back to the Future, and so one night
I'm like, get the popcorn. You're watching Back to the Future,
and they loved it.

Speaker 1 (16:43):
With some people consider it the perfect movie. Yeah, we
always say sports movies aside, we say it's the trifecta.
If you're a kid of the eighties, it's Goonies, Back
to the Future, and Karate Kid. Those are the three
that it would be hard to not try to pass
down to your children. You know what else gets left
out of that conversation though, et I mean that's legendary.

(17:05):
It's just so sad sentimental. I think, like, you don't
want to sit there and cry about an alien on
a random Thursday. But in honor and in tribute, we
will be talking about Gene Hackman and other fictional coaches
from movies and TVs tire World again on over promised.
But I think we all got to check out Hoosiers

(17:27):
if we haven't, And like you said, dB replacements because
Hackman's also in that one. But if you want to confess,
consider this. He is a y'all confession. Yeah, your confession.

Speaker 4 (17:39):
And on the heels of that, Sam put a tribute
up to Gene Hackman on them. It's still up. I
put because I'm such a huge Hoosiers fan that we
went to the movie sites five years ago, me and
my wife in Indiana. I threw a video up on Twitter.
There's also one on TikTok that I put up a
couple of years ago of like what it was like.
I would explain it to you, but you've never seen
the movie, so but wooer check it out.

Speaker 1 (18:00):
Hey, feel free, Cavino. You talk about it often. We're
in that downtime now where baseball hasn't started yet, NBA
and NHL are getting close to the playoffs, NFL offseason. Hey,
maybe your job this week or next week is to say,
let me pick a classic sports movie that I just
missed along the way, download it on your travels and

(18:20):
watch it. You know what I did, Richard, dedicate two
hours of your life to Hoosiers or Mighty Ducks or
slap Shot or you know.

Speaker 5 (18:28):
I like that. It's like some good homework.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
I admitted I've never seen Hoosiers, but I'm not the
only one. I'm surprised by that. You've never seen Caddie
Shack and Mighty Shot Mighty until recently, remember the Titans.
I feel like Hoosiers. You need to immediately go watch that.
I'm not against it, dude, I will if not. If
I don't watch it tonight or tomorrow, it's on my

(18:54):
next free night. It's assignment viewing. By the way, is
it a good thing or is it tacky? And when
you notice somebody dies or someone's in the news, and
all of a sudden, like you see the little thumbnail
for their movie on every streaming service you have. It's convenient,
but is it also like they're capitalizing off the death
or controversy of that person combined with paying tribute to

(19:14):
the moment. I'm fifty to fifty on it. Yeah, no exactly,
but you notice it, right, no doubt. So I'm sure
you're gonna see a Who's Your thumbnail or a Royal
Tannin's bomb thumbnail somewhere in your streaming services. I have
a dumb thought that has to do with what you
just said about nineties movies. Yeah, well, let me let
me again preface. Though I had seen parts of Remember

(19:38):
the Titans. I was on a plane, it was there.

Speaker 5 (19:39):
I think that from the two thousand.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
Was it two thousand and again? Like I liked it rich,
I'm sure i'd have liked it a lot more when
I when it first came out. You know, you have
to put yourself in that mindsetes. We had a theory
the other day that it's so dumb, why not bring
it to Fox Sports Radio. I can't be the only
one because Cavino felt the same way. And I'm really

(20:02):
curious what everyone else feels. When you were a kid
and your grandparents showed you photos and relics from the
twenties and thirties and forties, eh, this should be in
World War two or but it would bust out their
perforated photos, you know, with the little triangular perforations on them.

(20:23):
And they're always black and white, obviously, and I knew
that I lived in a time of color photos, so
I always associated their past in black and white, old
movies black and white. So when my grandparents would tell
me a story. I pictured it in black and white,
and in my mind, I thought they lived in black
and white. Yeah, when now I would imagine their stories,

(20:47):
I would imagine them like in a Humphrey Bogart sort
of era and sort of camera view. So when did
life become colorful? Grandpa? Oh, it always has been, Grandpa.
When did technicolor like kick into actual light? I'm not
even bs And I thought my grandparents lived in black
and white.

Speaker 4 (21:04):
And I totally get it because now, but it's not
You're not that far off because now when we see
old clips colorized, it's not like anybody's wearing neon green,
you know, like it's all just a subdued navy.

Speaker 5 (21:15):
Black or brown or gray. So it's not it's not
that shocking.

Speaker 3 (21:19):
It is amazing to see those colorized like anywhere. Like
a World War One footage I saw it was like
of the British soldiers colorized. It was unreal, Like it
just brought a whole new life to it.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
It feels like it can't be real.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
World War two footage colorized, it is crazy, Like in
my mind, I saw footage of Babe Ruth colorized recently,
So man, that that is weird.

Speaker 1 (21:41):
Like a blink and anything.

Speaker 5 (21:42):
Were the Yankees were in their city connect.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
So I look at it and I say, you know,
I thought our grandparents lived in the black and white.
And I found out that Babe Ruth actually used mustard
on his hot dogs, not catchum. I always wondered, sure
because it was yellow.

Speaker 5 (21:57):
So the mystery.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
So here here's our dumb convin on thought. If we
as little kids. I'm not saying I think that now,
but as a little kid, I think I thought my
grandparents lived in black and white. Yeah, I thought in
old timey times they lived in black and white again
when I was a really little kid, Pleasantville style, based
on theory. Based on that theory. The other night, I'm

(22:18):
on YouTube because my kids was to watch all junk
on YouTube, but I was signed in under my name
and the last thing I had watched was highlights of
the twenty twenty four Mets, like all the Lindor and
Alonzo home runs, and my kids, who are getting ready
for t ball and softball, they're like, Dad, what's that?
I go, you want to see a couple of home
runs from the Mets last year, And then it gets
into the cow us Dad show Us show us, and

(22:41):
I'm like, hey, buddy, can you name three Mets? And
I'm so proud of my son's like Thoto, Lindhor and
Paular Mayn Pete. I'm watching them watch highlights, and then
my daughter does the whole you think the Mets will
ever win the championship, as she calls it, because Dad
didn't they win? And you were my age and that
was the last time I go, yeah, buddy, it was,

(23:03):
She goes is that on TV? I showed them a
two minute clip of you know, gets by Buckner Mookie
Wilson eighty six. All my kids kept saying was were
things blurry when you were a kid? So do our
kids the same way we thought our grandparents lived in
the black and white? Do our kids think we lived

(23:24):
in the blurry? They do? They do. And there's so
many reasons that even clips from the nineties, mostly the nineties,
there's reasons that they're extra blurry when you see them
now because they weren't formatted for today's type of monitor
and screen. There was SD yeah, right, and so you'll
see a clip you know, damn well, it wasn't that blurry,

(23:45):
but it was on video, right, And now it's digital
when it transferred, it just looks like crap. So if
a kid is looking at a highlight from the ninety
six World Series, I got to break about my Yankees here,
it looks like something from the nineteen sixties. It looks
looks pathetically blurry. So based on our theory of we
imagine our Grandpapy living in the black and white, our

(24:08):
kids think we lived in the blurry, and they're not
necessarily wrong because if you watch some of those videos,
they're all blurry. Dude, Honestly, like any highlight you will
watch or pull up on YouTube from the eighties, the
way it's formatted, the way it's you know, captured George
Brett getting mad about the corked bat. That looks like
I can understand where you're five year old er, six

(24:30):
year old kid would be.

Speaker 4 (24:31):
Like, dad or things blurry when you were a kid
two thousand and two, NFL Action two thousand and one,
you'd be amazed on how bad it looks and it feels.

Speaker 1 (24:39):
Like it was just the graphics packages. Everything about it
looks like, Man, how old is this video? And it's
not that old? Twenty years old. Dan Bayern and I
take a lot of pride in being nerdy about is
the lower thirds and the graphics packages. When you were
a kid, you didn't realize that was never up during
the game. If you watch an old NF films from

(25:00):
the eighties or nineties, they only showed the score and
the quarter and how much time, and third down, second down,
going in and out of commercials. I guess they thought
it was not a good idea to show it. Like
if you watch an old Monday night football game when
it was Alan Dan and Frankett, there there was no
permanent lower third.

Speaker 6 (25:21):
You know.

Speaker 4 (25:22):
I'm sure there's some guy tunes in in the second
or third quarter and watches fifteen minutes.

Speaker 5 (25:28):
Of the game so you can get the rating. Not
to realize he's watching a forty one to nine game.

Speaker 4 (25:32):
Maybe, like that's the reason why where all of a sudden,
now if you turn.

Speaker 5 (25:35):
It on, you're like, that game's a blot. I'm just
gonna turn it away.

Speaker 1 (25:38):
That the theory might have been, if you see the score,
you're not gonna stick around.

Speaker 5 (25:41):
Sure, yeah, who knows.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
There's also a difference in the quality of NFL films
because it could be a game from you know, the
two thousands, and it looks like something from the sixties
because it's on film. That's always misleading. Yeah, it just
looks flat. It looks flat because it's not actual film.
But when you see that old video of old baseball
games again, it wasn't it that long ago and it
looks so old. Hence kids think we lived in the

(26:06):
blurry era of life. Yeah, good, that's true, especially with
their HD. I's good luck getting another show on this
network or any network to have the revelation if we
lived in the bud You really have.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
To go to that footage. If you want to do
like a documentary on it, you have to clean it up.
It takes a lot of post production editing or not editing,
but like you have to like sharpen sharpening things up.
You have to really do a lot of work on it.
It's like almost like restoring an old car.

Speaker 1 (26:28):
Yeah, does it creep you out? Guys when you see
with a which with the AI they could probably do
it easily. Does it creep you out when you see
how now they could bring old photos to life? Is
that weird to you? Like they'll take like an old
timey times photo and they could sort of animate.

Speaker 3 (26:42):
It, make it like a gift.

Speaker 1 (26:44):
Almost the way the eyes look. It's so weird when
they get a video. I know it's stupid, but did
you see the video of Donald Trump sucking Elon Musk's toes.
I did see that. It's so disturbing, but because it
looks so real that exactly, you know, I'm sure there's
old people happened that believed it. My mom probably thinks

(27:04):
it's real. Ratchie, I saw it on Facebook. All right,
let's go to Dan Buyer for an update. What's going on?

Speaker 7 (27:10):
Then?

Speaker 4 (27:10):
Quickly, guys, have you guys seen any of the old
clips when they changed from black and white to color
TV where stations actually did it where they're like, we
are not going to transition into a color modent.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
How about when Dorothy goes from Kansas to Munchkinland. That
was I watched The Wizard Bonds recently with my kids
and they were so bored in the beginning, and I
had to be like, kids, I promise you it's going
to get better.

Speaker 5 (27:32):
Yeah, and you're gonna hate what you're about to see.

Speaker 4 (27:35):
Chiefs said in Travis Kelsey confirmed to play in twenty
twenty five, doing so in text messages to Pat McAfee
of the Pat McAfee show. Chiefs by the way, place
the franchise tag on guard Tray Smith. Former Buccaneers head
coach John Gruden will be reinstated into the team's Ring
of honor. He was removed in twenty twenty one, but
we'll be back up in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 1 (27:57):
Well, look at the time fifty after Old School hits.
If there's a surgeon, what we gonna do is go back.

Speaker 8 (28:08):
Back into time, throwing it back for a Thursday. Old
School won fifty hits at fifty after CNR, give you
the time capsule topic and we reminisce together.

Speaker 1 (28:21):
Now, next hour we will talk some NFL and Travis Kelcey,
he's made an announcement. We'll get to that. But every
Thursday we throw it back and we reminisce nostalgia a
big part of our lives. We get you involved at
eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox Everything at Covino
and Rich at Fox Sports Radio. Now, if you're on

(28:42):
social media like most of us are, or you just
see the news from time to time, you may have
seen that Hooters filed for bankruptcy. What Hooters? What to me?
If you would have said, what business plan might never fail.
I would have to say, know, hot women in wings, Yeah,
that'd probably be around forever. That can Phil? How does

(29:04):
that go out of style? Which shows you America's changing?
And man, wow, that's a surprise. Are we too good
for delightfully tacky?

Speaker 8 (29:12):
Now?

Speaker 1 (29:13):
What's wrong with us? And then for the crafty folks
out there al Bundy's disappointed, or for the women that
love to you know, do their little crafty stuff at
home Joeanne? How many times have you stopped at Joe
Anne's with your mom or your girlfriend? Or You're feel
bad about this, but at least I'll stop getting their
junk mail every other day. It's like, geez, I bought
some yarn there five years ago and I still get

(29:35):
emails from them. Yeah, Joeann's texted me every day. I'm
sad anytime I hear this stuff. And if you have
kids in school especially, they're always asking you to take
them to Joeanness or Michael's because they need things for
crafts at school and projects and things like that. Is
all that time you made a diorama? Dude, I'm at
Joanne's actually a lot, because my daughter's always doing stuff

(29:56):
for her projects start with the Shoe Box, but again
Hooters Joe Ann's just recently. I'm from New Jersey. My
family was all upset because they're closing down one of
the last locations of Rainforest Cafe and Hersy, their famous
Menlo Park location. Now there's only one left. Remember they
was in Atlantic City. You walked to the I guess

(30:16):
you would say the lobby area and they'd be like
that the Jungle.

Speaker 2 (30:19):
Store holding on By used to go to the one
in Vegas.

Speaker 1 (30:23):
Yeah, there's like one or two here and there. But
based on these thoughts and all these news alerts, what
are some places that don't exist anymore that we just miss,
did we really miss? And wish we could bring them back,
which we could share those moments with our kids. The
Hooters one hit hits home for me because my wife
when she was in college worked at Hooters. In fact,

(30:44):
sort of how I met my wife because she ended
up she was Miss Hooters in like eight and we
met her through the radio show. That's right, Oh, Jack
Richar's wife was miss Hooters International. My girlfriend is the
stock photo that there. She also worked at Hooters, my girlfriend,
believe it or not, and they're using her photo as
the like, hey we're falling for bankruptcy Hooters and like

(31:05):
she's the one that's all over the news alert. So
I mean, think about it. How many times were you
watching a game having some wings? Hooters is America? This
is shocking. Joanne's every school project or your kids shocking.

Speaker 3 (31:20):
What are the.

Speaker 1 (31:20):
Ones that sort of bummed you out when they close down?
It could be electronics stores, it could be record stores,
it could be anything. There's old school regional shops that
toy stores are a big Yeah, toy stores. So we'll
get to all of the next throwing it back on
a Thursday. Those stores you miss from back in the
day will do it next. Could be known Rich just

(31:44):
recently Rainforest Cafe. They're hanging on by a thread. They
just closed down one of the most iconic locations in
New Jersey, and there's one left in Atlantic City. I'm
sure there's a few here and there, but they're hanging
by a string, by a thread. That being said, we
ask you Fox Sports Radio Nation, let's go back and
reminisce on those national chains that we all remember that

(32:05):
are no longer here, stores that we miss. Do you
think you could buy one of those animatronic alligators somewhere
from Rainforest Cafe. Go for it, man, But speaking of ematronics,
I'll kick it off. Everybody remembers Chuck E Cheese. It's
still around, right, But before that, there was a place
and it was magical and it was all over the country,

(32:25):
and I used to go there as a kid, as
an eighties kid, anytime there was arcades and pizza involved,
I wanted to go and that place this magical memory
for me that I miss And it's not that I
miss it because I missed my childhood and I want
to go back. But I wish I could have shared
these things with my kid, but they no longer exist. Really,
Showbiz Pizza Place, do you guys remember that?

Speaker 3 (32:47):
I wll not that I went there before it turned
to Chuck E Cheese.

Speaker 1 (32:50):
Chuck E Cheese ended up buying it out, but their
animatronics were full body animatronics. Bob and the whole premise
was Billy Bob and Fatz and the Rock of Fire Explosion.
They were a band rich so you were going there
to watch like a show and a performance, like they
were rocking out while you were eating pizza and then
running too the arcade yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
Dude, my mom took us to the McDonald's playground.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
Y yeah, but you don't understand how I had to beg.
We had to beg our parents back then. Right now
we're such suckers with our kids. So I missed that.
I'll start off by saying, showbiz pizza place. Missed that place,
I'll hit you up with one. The pizza tasted just
like the Chuck E Cheese pizza though, and it was

(33:34):
not great pizza. I loved it as a kid.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
They've actually they've improved their pizza. I went to a
party for my nephew a couple months back. Pizza better
now at Chuck E Cheese. Good, good job, but they're animatronics.
It's what Hooters should have done. They should have improved
their food.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
You said the like gronk there for a second, pizza better?
You know these days pizza ba Hooters. It is shocking
that you would think good looking women tight you know,
sports on like it had the business model and they
had money and they made money as I liked, tacky
yet unrefined my wife. They're silky pantyhose and those leg

(34:10):
warmers they wore. What are they gonna do with all
those white puffy socks. Now, yeah, I know. My wife
worked at Hooters when she was in college and she
actually won Miss Hooters International.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
Your winner of the twelfth annual Miss Hooters International swim
Suit Pageant.

Speaker 1 (34:29):
Is number one ten, Sarah Hoots from Texas. Can you
name the voice of the announcer. No, but I think
people will be like, her name is Hoots? Real name, yeah,
real name Hooters, Chris Rose, Chris Rose. And by the way,
money gig. I did that for like five years. It

(34:50):
was the they so they had money at one point
because I remember being like, what are you gonna pay me?
Maybe Chris Rose is why they're going bankrupt. I remember
he was getting paid. I remember thinking like, yo, they
got money. I was always on like Fox Sports or
ESPN or Spike TV. They would always televise that pageant.
And guess why I got replaced by I did it
five years in around They're like, sorry, we're going with

(35:11):
someone else. Arsenio hall Man, Guys, I don't have a
dog pound. I guess I lose.

Speaker 5 (35:18):
This would have at least got replaced by Steve Harvey, at.

Speaker 1 (35:20):
Least by Randa Watson. So bump to see Hooters go
before we go to all the feedback, I'm gonna throw
one out there. I won't be like I was Sam
in List ten. I'm kidding, Sam, Yeah, leave some pizza
for the rest of us. Sam kidding, buddy. If you're
a homeowner, or you remember buying stuff for your apartment
after college and you were like trying to be a
big boy, there's a couple bed Beth and Beyond. You

(35:44):
would have those coupons that were like twenty percent off,
and you'd always have one like that. Your mom would
leave your apartment for you. I can't believe that they
don't exist any bed Beth and Beyond God, And I'm
gonna throw out another name. You might even forget David existed.
Remember Linen's and things? Of course, I remember things well,
all those like home stores that you would go to

(36:05):
buy all the stuff you needed for your college dorm
or you know, your new apartment. Yeah, I got my
first big boy apartment. Let me go buy Beth towels
and a toothpaste a toothbrush holder at Linensen. Before we
go to the phones, though, Rich again eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox at Covino and Rich, Let's take
some accountability and say, yeah, we could miss these places

(36:25):
all we want, but we're to blame here because if
our lazy asses weren't going to Amazon, which changed everything,
a lot of these places would still be here. You know.
You know, we got to say that we're the problem.

Speaker 3 (36:36):
That's partially true, but it's also about money management and
how you make.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
Yeah, but if yours, it's me, Hi, I'm the problem.
It's Steve. I'm not going to circuit city, dude, I'm
buying it online.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
But they have to respond to that though, They have
to like be like, okay, we'll just to put you
right line.

Speaker 1 (36:51):
But you know, businesses could have pivoted, but Amazon wiped
out so many and again, our new habits, in our
new way of world of the world is what wiped
of these I know it's not a store, but I
thought this way when remember when they made the announcement
a couple of years back, like we're gonna discontinue Twinkies,
and everyone was like, what do you mean you can't

(37:12):
discontinue Twinkies? And I remember asking everyone, well, when was
the last time you had a Twinkie? And everyone's answer
was like no, no, decade orself road you go. You
can't expect some of this stick around if you're not
going there or consuming the product. Let's start with you, guys,
and Danny I was saying, I want everyone to think
of some more josh. You started off in Ohio. Those

(37:34):
discontinued uh, those stores that shut down? What do you
got hey?

Speaker 9 (37:38):
Happy Thursday, guys. So, as a four year old and
the late eighties and Dayton, Ohio, there was no bigger
thrill than walking into a children's palace, and it seemed
like the toys were from the floor to the ceiling.
My older brother got his first Cobra Commander there. I
don't know if you guys had that where you live,

(38:00):
but I believe it in turn became Toys r U
later on.

Speaker 1 (38:03):
Well, not only Toys r US and the one you
mentioned children's palace. I remember Toys r US lives in
like in a Kiosk form. It doesn't even really exist anymore.
Pop ups. They're trying to make a comeback. But I mean,
who would have thought Toys on RUSS would be gone?
I remember my mom waiting early in the morning, as
as a great mom did in the eighties or nineties
to try to get me a Nintendo game for my

(38:24):
birthday or something at KB Toys.

Speaker 2 (38:28):
Yoh yeah, it'll be a kid popular in the mall,
not a Chuck Cheez And you know, also in the mall.
Orange Julius was still in Burbank, by the way. And
one last thing about Burbank, California, they opened up a
Toys r Us, a big store.

Speaker 5 (38:46):
It used to be a kmart.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
Everybody was so excited as they were putting the storefront up.
Turns out it was for a movie they were filming.

Speaker 1 (38:53):
No way, really, we can't go in. Oh that's sad. Dude,
all right, don't want to steal all the pizza. Who's next?
Tom in Florida? Tom? What store shut down? What's up?

Speaker 5 (39:05):
Man?

Speaker 6 (39:06):
Bro was the place that we said it wasn't because
we didn't go. We were there every Friday and Saturday
night till late night. I missed Bennigans.

Speaker 5 (39:13):
Benigans was on point.

Speaker 1 (39:15):
In the ninety I gotta say this, but Camo work
I worked there forever before. That was my last job
before radio. They sent Covino to college. I can't tell
you how many Turkyo tools I served, how many samplers,
The health club chicken platter for the wind. Dude, they're nachos,
they are honey mustard. Their sampler was fantastic. I loved

(39:35):
working there. I had a great experience there. I miss
it as well because they had a great bar with
over one hundred beers on tap and dude, it was
a scene. I loved it. It was that that Bennigans, Friday's, Chili's,
Applebee's scene. It was that level of restaurant and uh
Chochi's on the walls. We talked about this briefly when

(39:58):
they announced what earlier last year that they're going to
reopen one Chee Cheese, Yes and listen. I think some
of these may come back in one off, pop up
type of situations because then the stale generation, the nostalgia generation,
people want that Monte Cristo. Yeah, they thirst for it.
So I wouldn't be shocked if they're like, hey, we're

(40:19):
gonna do a ben Against pop up in a few
big cities. Used to love that. And and if you
guys don't know the reference, if you guys remember the
movie Waiting with Dane Cook and Ryan Reynolds, they worked
at a place called Shenanigans and it was a parody
on Bennigans. Let's go to Trip. What a great guy
in Vegas.

Speaker 10 (40:36):
Hey Trip, Hey guys, always great to hear to speak
with y'all. Hey, but Danny g took the one I
was gonna say, owns Julius. But a couple more would
be sharper images online. But Radio Shot used to be
fun in the mall when you were a hit because
during Christmas you could go play with all the electric cars. Yeah,
like they would let you run them.

Speaker 1 (40:55):
All over the mall if you needed a wire or
a remote control car. Yeah, the radio Shock was your
That's a good one trip. And you know what. Covino
and I worked at Serious XM in the early days
of satellite radio, and Radio Shack was the one place
that had like the early satellite radio right for the
plug in place or whatever you needed, any component. When
we were little kids, they had the free battery cards.

Speaker 2 (41:15):
We'd go in and get a free battery and they
would cut a little hole out of the card.

Speaker 5 (41:19):
You know what.

Speaker 1 (41:19):
I saw a story about Radio Shack. Doesn't like Nick
Cannon on them. I think they might be like one
or two's own. Somebody owns it. I want to bring
it back. There's only a couple left. I'm pretty sure
I'm gonna look that up right now, but I mean,
that was the spot. If you needed anything, Let's go
to Marcel in Los Angeles. You're on with Covin on Rich.
What's up, Bud. I don't know yet, but not a restaurant,

(41:42):
but a Blockbuster.

Speaker 11 (41:43):
Definitely going there on Friday and Saturdays on the weekends
when you're getting out of school with your parents. Definitely.

Speaker 1 (41:49):
You know, you're so right on Marcel. It's an obvious
answer that no one said yet. So thank you, my friend, Blockbuster,
Hollywood Video, whatever your spot was. I wonder if we
glorify it, because the reality is you love sitting on
your lazy ass just going through a Hulu Netflix. It
wasn't even that ago, Max, It was the experience of
it going there at four plus. Yeah, the new releases.

(42:12):
You would go that. You would rent the video game
for the kid in your family, just to keep them
out of your hair, so you could squeeze some cheeks
watching a movie with whoever you were with. Like, if
your girlfriend had a little brother, you got him a
video game.

Speaker 2 (42:22):
Get him out of your hair, Get him out of yeah,
get him out of your face. It was like the
ramp up to a great night.

Speaker 1 (42:27):
Yeah, that was it. You'd see some local people that
you knew there, Hey what's up John.

Speaker 3 (42:33):
They'd sell candy and microwave popcorn at the at the
count you get sour jacks your price.

Speaker 5 (42:39):
They all had that same smell when you walked in.

Speaker 1 (42:41):
You know what. In the Blockbuster documentary they described that smell.
It was a combination of wet carpet from like just
so many people walking through with like soppy sneakers, combined
with plastic from all the the cases and popcorn. So
it was popcorn, dirty carpet, and plastic and it had
specific smell. But Blockbuster video, I'm telling you the ultimate

(43:04):
four play. If you're a teenager or a college kid,
let's go pick out a movie. You and your girl
with hold hands. Start at the A's Week, work you
way to the Disease New Releases, and you're right. Cavino.
I always remember they had sour jacks instead of sour
patch Kiins. I always wanted to rent Blackula and I
never I never did. I remember always wanted to have
rent barbed Wire with pam me too. Yeah, by the way,

(43:27):
I looked it up for trip Nick Cannon was named
the CEO for Radio Shack in twenty twenty. Yeah, I
don't know. He's busy with thirty five kids, so I
don't know how that worked out. Maybe maybe they'll stay
in business if he buys them all the remote control
he can just employ them at all those Seriously, they
can be all these employees. These are stores that we

(43:48):
missed doors based on the Hooters Orwan's News stores. Who
do we got? Let's say, how to Todd in Michigan? Hi, Todd,
Todd's the coolest today? Anybody? What's up?

Speaker 5 (43:59):
Man?

Speaker 9 (44:03):
That was a big, big, big.

Speaker 11 (44:08):
Because the green Onion scandal.

Speaker 2 (44:11):
No, No, Todd's underwater. I'll see if I can get
a better connection Todd. All here was green Onion scandal.
What Todd needs to go to?

Speaker 5 (44:19):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (44:19):
The cell phone store? A new cell phone because he
needs a singular wireless?

Speaker 5 (44:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (44:23):
What's up there?

Speaker 5 (44:24):
But I got eighteen here that i'd like to run
down more than Merrier.

Speaker 6 (44:28):
Dan.

Speaker 1 (44:30):
It's not taking it given. I know you're on full.

Speaker 4 (44:31):
Calls, but I want to get these eighteen restaurants that
I miss in.

Speaker 1 (44:35):
It has a whole list. I'm ready, Dad, it's gonna
give his top ten A number.

Speaker 4 (44:41):
And W has revitalized themselves in a different way. Sonic
has taken over the drive in, but the A and
W drive in was a big deal when I grew up,
the frosty mugs being taken out to your car as
you wait. I know Sonic does it now, and A
and W is still thriving, just in a different fashion.
But there was something about the A and W drive in.

(45:02):
In fact, the building that ours in my hometown, it
hasn't been open for forty years, still has the same
building and the same awning where you would park in
place your order in that speaker.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
Totally remember the A and W. And you made me
think of something else, dB, And I don't think anyone's
gonna say it, so I'm not taking anyone's answer. But
when we do those graduate hotel appearances, a lot of them,
they just take over other hotels and eight rebrand them.
And one of them we went to was an old
Howard Johnson's hotel.

Speaker 5 (45:29):
That was sixteen on my list.

Speaker 1 (45:30):
Yeah, that was I was gonna say, Howard Johnson, Yes, Joe,
And I'm not talking the New York Rich's favorite New
York met I'm talking the hotel, but we would go
there for breakfast. He was a thirty thirty guy, by
the way, he was, yeah, and a sweet mustache. But
Howard Johnson's we would go there, not to spend the
night or anything. We would go there as a family
for breakfast all the time. By the way, can you

(45:52):
imagine as a little kid, how confused I was thinking
that Howard Johnson was my New York Mets. But there
was also hotels like is it him? Wait again? A
breakfast spot? No joke, you know, before we go to
I'll take everyone's answer. East Coast after every school play
concert or a little league game that was of importance.

(46:16):
They may remain in a small way, but does anyone
on the West Coast have you guys heard of Friendlies?
You'd go for a fribble? Yeah, after a big school event.
They had ice cream. It was a like a diner,
but they also had ice cream and milkshakes, and you know,
like it was a major chain on the East Coast
for sure. When you would it was the quintessential. Oh

(46:37):
you had your school concert or the playoff game in
Little League? Yeah, afterwards everyone went to friendly Like we
went to a tcby that that Yeah, but this place
had food too. Ccby was the country's best yogurt, and
I remember being like, who wants frozen yogurt? But they
are also very few and far between. Tcb wis and

(46:59):
one more and then uh, we'll go to the Phones,
a very East Coast truck stop place. They were in
neighborhoods as well. They had a thick fins bar and
there was nothing better than Roy Rogers. I used to love.
They had grapecifically their nuggets and their sweet and they
had great fried chicks. Do you guys have Roy Rodgers

(47:19):
here in l a Arty like there? Uh over a
lot of those, good dude, And they used to have
a sweet bacon burder.

Speaker 3 (47:28):
Did Roy Rodgers have curly fries? Or my confusing that
with the Arby's.

Speaker 1 (47:32):
I think your Arby's did, But right, Roy Rogers.

Speaker 3 (47:35):
I remember only going to Roy Rodgers when I'd be
on like a road trip and we'd stop there.

Speaker 1 (47:39):
Big truck stop type of place. All right, let's start
at the top and we'll go rapid Fire Mike and
Florida Hoonters and Joe Anne's the latest to be gone.
What do you got?

Speaker 6 (47:51):
I got to uh, hey, what your way?

Speaker 1 (47:58):
Ground Round was mare for any chubby kid grown ground Mike,
try to tell us the second one again.

Speaker 11 (48:04):
I want to do the city.

Speaker 6 (48:05):
It's South Florida Sunrise.

Speaker 1 (48:07):
I don't think I knew that well, but ground Round,
that Cavino's not joking, a nightmare for chubby kids. Parents.
If you ate, if you bought an entre, your kids
paid what they weigh. So if you weighed eighty five
pounds as a little kid, seventy five cents. So the
whole joke was like, don't bring your fat for But
that was the spot for sure.

Speaker 3 (48:29):
A slider Sundays. Yeah, I have so many of those
little baseball helmets left on.

Speaker 1 (48:33):
You know what fascinated me as a kid, so I
know I can't be alone. Remember the first time you
were allowed to do soft serve by yourself? Places like
that would have you the ability as a kid you
could pull the lever, yeah and do your own soft serve. No,
I remember that glorious, but it made me think of
two again. I'm from New Jersey, so Route twenty two,
New Jersey. You go up. Our guy that mentioned Bennigans before.

(48:57):
The parent company also owned Steak in Ale and that
was the higher end version who that does not exist
as far as I know. I used to love that place.
Demetrius in Tulsa, What's Up Tulsa King?

Speaker 6 (49:09):
Well, Three things. One an old franchise Arthur Treacher's kind
of was part of that Fish and Chips thing that
was going on for a while. Second of all, Howard
Johnson's not only did hotels, but they also did restaurants. Yeah,
and we have a we have a turnpike between Tulsa,
Oklahoma City and the Midway at Howard Johnson's was always
open twenty four hours, so if we were going between

(49:31):
the two, we could stop there. And Third, somebody that
had to be really old to remember this, but Sears
and I think Montgomery Ward had a house. You could
buy a house kit and build it.

Speaker 1 (49:42):
That's insane Sears and Roebuck originally right, I can do
that at Costco.

Speaker 3 (49:46):
You can get like sheds and stuff.

Speaker 1 (49:48):
Did LV in Vegas? What's Up?

Speaker 5 (49:50):
LV?

Speaker 6 (49:51):
I got two for you? Love your show?

Speaker 10 (49:54):
Thanks in the.

Speaker 7 (49:55):
Middle League of Shakey's Pizza after the game.

Speaker 10 (49:59):
And then who didn't not go to a Tower's record
in the early nineties.

Speaker 1 (50:03):
Tower Tower Virgin Sam Goodie Coconuts.

Speaker 2 (50:06):
Tower Tower Records was that? And what was the name
of the other one?

Speaker 1 (50:12):
You what?

Speaker 5 (50:13):
What did you guys? Mostly? Okay, you had Sam Goode Sergeon?
Oh man?

Speaker 1 (50:19):
Did you Did you have Nobody Beats the Whiz?

Speaker 5 (50:21):
No, we didn't.

Speaker 1 (50:22):
You guys have Amba records out here.

Speaker 5 (50:24):
Oh we had Wearhouse Music, Warehouse Music.

Speaker 1 (50:26):
That's what the one I was thinking about, Danny, You
know the as I love when you always say the youngsters.
The youngsters today, they don't know that thrill of you
had to wait at a record store or a video
store to get concert tickets.

Speaker 2 (50:39):
That and also when there would be a big music release,
like I remember when Snoop Dogg's first solo album came out,
there was a line outside the Warehouse Music store. You
waited in line for hours to get that new CD.

Speaker 1 (50:52):
That's where I'm always so torn with music and entertainment podcasts.
We have everything at our fingertips. Does it make us
lazy or is it convenient? I just can't ever put
my finger on if I'm glorifying the past.

Speaker 5 (51:03):
Like if I.

Speaker 1 (51:04):
Wanted to listen to music, you got to go buy
CD or record to go, you know, to listen to
a radio show, you had to listen live there was
no podcasting and movies and everything. You'd have to go
to a video store. Now everything's just everything's on your phone. Hey.
Awesome or not, I don't know it is. But again,
you know, you lose a lot as a result, and
that's what we're going over and probably moving in a

(51:28):
better direction. But it is kind of sad to see
these things go away. Speaking of music, I'm pretty certain
that sam Ash closed down their last store. Guitar Center
still remains sam Ash gone. So if you want to
buy a trumpet, not getting it sam. It's really funny
who ask that, because when you said sam Ash, my
only thought was I think that's when my grandparents bought

(51:50):
me my saxophone, no doubt. Yeah Sam, Hey, if you
need to buy some reads or a pair of drumsticks,
sam Ash was your spot. Yeah, that doesn't exist as
far as I know. Again, certain brands here and there
online maybe look Rich and I we worked our first
show together was on Maxim Radio. I mean magazines barely exist. Yeah,

(52:10):
it's true. Three more quickies. We'll go rapid fire with
John and Illinois. What's up, Bud? Hey, guys love the show?
Thank you?

Speaker 11 (52:18):
Hey, yea.

Speaker 10 (52:19):
Most of the might have been taken by two quick things.
If you want your orange, Julius, dairy Queen has it now.

Speaker 11 (52:25):
They own it.

Speaker 6 (52:26):
I wanted to wait around.

Speaker 11 (52:27):
We saw thousands of cases of that stuff, Julius.

Speaker 1 (52:30):
That's cool, though, I didn't know Dairy Queen on that yep.

Speaker 9 (52:33):
And secondly, who's noticed on the socks at booters?

Speaker 1 (52:39):
Who's looking at the socks?

Speaker 5 (52:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (52:40):
I didn't even know they had feet. Wait they wait,
they have you have anything below the knee? What's going on?
Just kidding? No, I'm not Josh in Pennsylvania. What's up? Josh?

Speaker 7 (52:51):
Damn, you guys killed my store idea. I was going
to say the wall in Pennsylvania. You go down to
the mall and I feel like it was like Thursday.

Speaker 6 (53:01):
It was a certain day of the week.

Speaker 7 (53:02):
I think it was Thursday when you know your favorite
rock band was dropping their new album, and you it'd
be so exciting hopping in the car, you know, skipping school,
heading down to the mall. You'd have the headphones that
you could pop on so you know, hear the different tracks.
You'd played like thirty seconds of the song and test
it out before you buy the CD.

Speaker 1 (53:22):
I'm so convinced, and I know it's self serving. I'm
so convinced we had the best childhood if you're roughly
forty ish. I feel like my daughter watches you know,
like Stranger Things, your throwbacks, and she swears that we
had at the best. I'm like, yeah, I think we did.
I'm convinced life now is better and more convenient. But
I feel like if you grew up in the eighties
and nineties, we grew up in a very special, more

(53:42):
of a magical time. Yeah, all right, Dwight, wrap it.
We're running late, but a lot of fun talking to
you guys. What's up Kentucky?

Speaker 10 (53:49):
All right?

Speaker 11 (53:49):
I just heard you guys say y'all want to get
at forties. So I'm Frina will take you way back
twenty more years. Yes, okay, you guys remember George Will's restaurant,
and then I'm okay, should be a Woolworths clo. I
mean it was kind of like a Walmart, of course.

Speaker 1 (54:04):
Yes, Woolworth. There was an East Coast place called Caldore.
I don't know if that made it out of Camart.
Woolworth's for sure. Gramma used to tell stories about eating
at Woolworth's. Bradley's two guys. But you know what I
do want to just plant one more thought before we
move on, because this stuff we didn't even talk about.
But mall stores like like obviously structures gone, but I

(54:26):
didn't working a place Press. It became Men's Express. Now
now it's Panda Express there. Yeah, now they sell a
panda clothes now. I used to work at a mall
store called the Garage, and it's not what you see
now garage. There are some stories called garage. I used
to work at a men's clothing store called the Garage,
and they sold like Levi's and uh Boss sweatshirts and

(54:49):
things like Big Johnson T shirts and all that. But
if you remember, there was a whole chain of Merry
Go Round, Chess King, a Tvo, all these stupid stores
that don't exist anymore. At the Travis kelcey, let's let's
touch on this guy for a second. Oh hold up,

(55:11):
you touched on him, Travis kelce Not done. And then
you got to ask yourself. Not everyone gets to choose
to go out on top. Not everyone's John l Way.
Not everyone is. Uh, I'll be honest, I'm trying to
think who else Michael Jordan after the second three people,
but then he came back as a wizard. I mean, uh,

(55:32):
Jason Whitworth, JG Yeah, Andrew Whitworth. Very few guys you
could say when you look at what guy won a
super Bowl Jerome Bettis, I remember the bus winning a
super Bowl in Detroit. They beat the Seahawks. Sorry, Dan
Byer and he Mayweather went out on top, and he's
in the news today because him and Jake Paul are
beefing publicly. But not many people get to choose to

(55:57):
go out on top. That's a rarety. That's a special thing.
So when Travis Kelsey said, yeah, I'm not going out
like that, I mean, short of another super Bowl, you're
gonna go out on a note you don't want. It's
really what it is. It's a sad reality. Well hold on,
I'm gonna quote him now. I don't know if you

(56:17):
saw it, but he did say, we ain't going out
like that. I'll cypercill style like that. We ain't going out,
he says, Scooby new y'all, Scooby, yeah, send dog, Yeah,
we ain't going out, he said. Losing Super Bowl Licks.

(56:37):
Losing the super Bowl left a bad taste in his mouth,
so therefore he wants to go at it run it
back one more time, at least again. Thirty five year
old Travis Kelcey on The Pat McAfee Show even TB twelve,
Remember Tom Brady, Do you remember how the story ended.

Speaker 3 (56:56):
With a very dispiriting loss to the Dallas Cowboys in
the first round?

Speaker 1 (56:59):
The player I believe, Yeah, I mean, all right, so
Tom Brady, we all thought his first exit was going
to be on a pick to end the game. I
believe against like Jacksonville. Was it Jacksonville, Tennessee, Tennessee? It
was against Tennessee, a team that really didn't go much further,
and it was like, man, that's how Tom's gonna go out.

(57:20):
And then he comes back with the Bucks, wins the
Super Bowl, but then tries to run it back. And
he did have a comeback in that game. That's the
only saving grace is that he actually had a pretty
decent second half. But they just couldn't They just couldn't win.

Speaker 3 (57:33):
That Bucks offense, though, was so hard to watch his
final year. It was just and it wasn't really Brady's fault.
It was just I don't it was just it was
greet he was watching offense. But it was sad because
you knew it was the end. But it's not like
he sucked that season. The team just wasn't there and
the simple.

Speaker 1 (57:49):
Fact that he had won the year before and it
was almost like, wow, he really did it. Yeah, but
he also he beat freaking Patrick Mahomes. Remember the path
that he took to get there? That was insane. Aaron
Rodgers Drew Brees Mahomes like that was that was badass.
So again, it is unlikely to ever go out on top.
But even when you try, rich sometimes to take that

(58:14):
mental still image, even in your own life of like, yeah,
this is my last day at the office, you rarely remember.
You rarely remember it. You know, I'm thinking, no matter
what you do, do you guys remember the last time
you played an organized baseball game? Like did you strike out?
Did you ground out? What was your hurrah? Did you
hit a home run? Did you end it like Derek Jeter? No,
you would think you remember, right, like if you played

(58:35):
bat dude had a walk off, you know, hit to
end his career. If you feel as though, if you
feel like you cared so much about sports as a kid,
isn't it shocking how you probably don't remember your last
at bat or your last football game. I couldn't tell
you if I tried. By the way, Jeter's last home
game was to walk off. Yeah, he did get a

(58:55):
hit in his last at bat on the road. Remember
it was like a week infield dribbler and was like,
look at that. He even hustled out west who Yeah,
but he was always full of magical moments there, no doubt. Again,
but professional athletes, they have the footage, they have the moment,
and they rarely go out on top, so you gotta
tip your hat when they do. So for Kelsey to
run it back, I mean he must really have some

(59:18):
regrets of how he played his last game. No, because
for them to run it back, they think they're gonna
win again. I find that hard to believe. Ambitious You
know who would have been great at Dealer no deal
or pressure luck, no emmy, no emmy. Stop John Elway.
When John Elway finally won, he just remember when we
were kids. He lost to the Giants, he lost to

(59:39):
the Redskins, and he lost to the forty nine ers,
And you're like, man l Way zero and three in
the Super Bowl. But he's so cool. He won helicopter
diving to the end zone. Underdog, beat the Packers, they
came back, they ran it back and they beat the Falcons,
and I remember thinking like, why is he That's why
I feel like Kershaw's pressing his luck. He could have
went out a champ. Yeah, no, win again.

Speaker 6 (01:00:01):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:00:02):
Let's go to Damn Yer for an update. dB, what's
going on, buddy?

Speaker 4 (01:00:04):
Remember when Brady retired the first time, they thought that
the final touchdown pass would be the one that Mike
Evans threw into the stands.

Speaker 1 (01:00:12):
Yes, and so then that ball was the hot commodity.

Speaker 4 (01:00:15):
And then Brady unretires and then it's like, ah, too bad,
and so whoever bought it got the wrong end of
the deal. The Titans did win the next week, though,
Remember they beat the Ravens and then lost to the
Chiefs in the AFC Championship Game.