The Best Of Covino & Rich

C&R return & react to a WEAK 18! Texas/Arizona State have a wild finish that goes OT! There's a new "Fog" & Aaron Rodgers said WHAT? Rich has some incentive laced NFL prop bets! They talk comedians (& Creed) who raked in the dough! The Rose Bowl is in-action & Gronk/Edelman joke about Howie Long & Tom Brady. Can you handle having a really rich friend? Plus, 'MID WEAK MAJOR' & Crocs at the gym!

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
The iHeartRadio app by searching FSR. It's good to be back.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Happy New Year, Week eighteen, which is worthless. I'm gonna
talk about why this is the throwaway week. But there's
ways to make money.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Oh, certain week, but there's ways to w eaaa k
E I say absolutely no. Are there games with ramifications?
Not many? Is it that week? We'll explain midweek major
Like I said, is it annoying or awesome to have
rich friends? There's a funny story about Tom Brady. We'll

(00:55):
get to. Aaron Rodgers is in the news. Lots of randomness,
but lots of fun. Here's what we do on the
Covino and Rich Show. But again, Happy New Year. Hope
you enjoyed the grassy knoll of the holidays. The space
between that Dave Matthews things about the space between the
space between Christmas and New Year's honest, this is the
year that sentiment jumped the shark. It used to be

(01:15):
like a clever thing, like you know the week between
Christmas and New Years?

Speaker 1 (01:18):
And now every Tom Dick and Harry and every Rindo
Hussey on Instagram and TikTok has a little selfie video
like have you ever know the week between I know
we all noticed it. Now it's not fun to talk
about anymore. But people do forget what day it is.
That is true, and we are full of cheese and carbs.
So hey, back at the gym today, back to the

(01:38):
old Grindstone.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Happy New Year. A lot of people still lounging in lamping,
but we're here and again, hope you enjoyed time with
friends and family. And of course no speratu. I saw
that in theaters. That was good. That's big for you
to like the caffino and rich shawto have you seen
it or no? No? Oh man, it's great. Is that

(02:01):
the hot movie right now? Are you serious?

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Yeah, yeah I think so.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
So enjoy your squid Game two's, your college foods ball,
your nose Arantus, and of course the show eight seven
seven ninety nine out Fox, Let's go. You know, it's
interesting because sometimes you wonder how that random old school
pal of yours or a family member could be so
out of the loop.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
M I was away with my wife and kids for
a couple of days.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
Yeah, And honestly, other than checking in on my niners
and lions on Monday night just to see what's doing,
I really didn't check much.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
And it's very easy to miss a lot in the
day or so. So, I mean, social media helps keep
you posted if you have your phone in your hands.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
No, but I'm saying if you are in the mindset
of yeah, I'm really just gonna be in the moment.
I'm not gonna be scrolling for a day or so,
you could see how that friend or family member gets
out of the loop.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Would you miss a lot of things?

Speaker 1 (02:55):
Given serious things like I walked in here and someone's like, man,
New Orleans, I'm like wow, oh yeah, And just the
Trump Tower story that has gone viral. All I've seen
that or did you miss that? I don't even know
what you're talking about. Come on, I went to the gym.
Is this guy serious?

Speaker 2 (03:12):
I went to the gym.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
I watched Texas Arizona State, which, by the way, Arizona
State touchdown in overtime.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
You know, you know that, so Arizona State up thirty
one twenty four as we speak, you know that Bert
Auburn's like, no, no, now they got to respond. Well,
our job is to keep people posted what's going on,
and of course all the nonsense. We're the worldwide leaders
of nonsense. Did you miss out on Aaron Rodgers talking

(03:41):
a lot of smack too? I know danyg doesn't want
to start with him. I know you've had it already
with Aaron Rodgers. You've been had it with Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
Did we push that to the podcast podcast only?

Speaker 4 (03:52):
You know?

Speaker 1 (03:53):
I do want to say that the coolest name of
twenty twenty four that's clearly emerging now in the first
twenty twenty five scatu boo Arizona State.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
This kid's playing with some heart today. Huh. He's been
playing with hard all year, but that might be the
coolest name in college boys. Yeah, he's a baller.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
Well he'same vomiting on the sidelines, but asking for liquids
like you know, he's He's put it all out there today.
Will keep you posted, you know, rich The gym is
a good place to get caught up on things.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
Like that. That's what I do. Honestly, that's where I
do my prep. I get on the treadmill and I
just start scrolling and reading through stories and just watching highlights.
And the games are on right so that's a great
place to catch up. Or here on Fox Sports Radio,
Cavino and Rich, Now, I say we kick it off.
Since we're talking a little college foosball right now, we
should talk about week eighteen. We should is it week

(04:47):
eighteen or week eighteen? Because Rich is really down about
Week eighteen in the NFL, and his question in our
little pre show meeting was is this something to even
go to? Like would you go to the game? But
let it be known that there's a big third and
ten right now. I know we're not allowed to do
play by play, so we'll keep you in the loop.
Third and ten, and I mean, this is it for Texas,

(05:10):
right If they don't if they don't convert, if they
don't score a toutty, Arizona State moves on, which would
be a I would say, a pretty significant upset.

Speaker 5 (05:19):
Oh huge. We haven't had a game this close yet
in play and that is not a long old boy
yardage play. We're looking about a fourth and nine, fourth
and eight.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Will see, we'll see what happens. We'll keep in the loop.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
But as we see some really amazing college football with
ramifications Week eighteen. Other than the Viking Game, Lions the
game of the year. It's like a game with the
most wins ever too, superstar teams going ahead to head
Vikings Lions fourteen and two. I mean, one team that
has the one seed a bye and that runs through

(05:54):
their stadium, and the other teams most I think ever,
you know, Coach of the year ramifications seed ramifications.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
For Texas fourth. Oh and they call the play dead
false start.

Speaker 5 (06:04):
Texas is almost a two touchdown favorite coming into this game.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
He's fourth and thirteen though false start. Oh my goodness.

Speaker 5 (06:12):
Arizona State was picked by the media and to finish
last in the Big twelve.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
So let's just put this so.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
The fact that they you know, the fact that they
won their conference and now they're doing this is just
it's really a great, a great ride for that fan base,
that student section.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
They must love that.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
You know what I noticed being at the gym today again,
trying to get back into the mix for the new year,
trying to keep those resolutions alive out here in Los
Angeles for live in La not a big football city.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
It just isn't hold on, hold out thought, fourth and thirteen.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
This is uh for all the Chick fil a nuggies.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
Let's see what we got here? Uh play.

Speaker 6 (06:55):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (06:55):
Oh my god? Touchdown and shy like that way?

Speaker 1 (07:01):
How do you let him slip through the s been
tuddy golden for the Longhorns.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
I hope they don't miss the extra point like they
missed the field goal by the way, that looks twenty
eight yards. That looked way too easy for a game.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
Yours hit him been strived like like the secondary.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
You know it's taking an old New Year's NAPO.

Speaker 7 (07:22):
That looked that kicker, this kicker right now is this
is go time for this for this guy poopy?

Speaker 2 (07:29):
Honestly, right now this kicker has got poopy pants. No,
it's business time.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
No, he's got this is a chip shot extra point,
all tied up. But what I did notice, Rich, is
that hoping he missed that, that way, we wouldn't have a
distraction for the first twenty minutes.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
You think I can't get a sense out this guy
can't focus.

Speaker 5 (07:49):
So the rose bull is just waiting to start and
we have to wait till this game wraps up.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yeah, but I don't blame you, dude, because what I
was gonna say is, for as much as we criticize
LA for, I mean, you can go to the gym
or the bar in LA and they don't have the
football game. A lot of times they had the college
game on, and I saw a lot of people glued
to this at the gym, which is honestly refreshing that
you know they care about something that there's nothing more
infuriating when you're at a bar or gym and you

(08:14):
have to be like, excuse me because someone don't know
put the game on, right, But you know, especially in
the NFL, you're like, hey, does anyone care?

Speaker 2 (08:21):
Again here in Los Angeles. But I did see a
lot of people glued to this game at the gym today,
and we will keep you posted. I don't blame rich.
This is a nail bier for sure, but you know what,
it's a great comparison in comparison to Week eighteen. This
has all the excitement right now. Well, Week eighteen, you
got the big one out of the way. Lions Vikings,

(08:43):
Oh my dude, lots of ramifications there game of the
year gonna be fun to watch for sure.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
Now just because the one seed has one or five,
I mean it's one or five. And the difference of
that is you get to chill at home. Everything goes
through you. You have a bye, versus all of a sudden,
you're a road dog wildcard. Remember imagine having that record
though in your fifth seed. It's happened a couple times
in the past. Not that good of a record. That good,

(09:11):
not that good of a record. But there have been
twelve win teams that are like, man, I'm a wildcard
when there was some twelve and four. So you can't
say Week eighteen doesn't matter the game though, beside aside
from that, so we have to play hypotheticals. Aside from
that game.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
This is a really week week where we're getting announcements
of you know, Mahomes isn't playing, Barkley's not playing, people
aren't playing. These games are kind of lame, so Rich
said in our apprecial meeting, like do you even care?
Like is there reason to care? Well, we're gonna give
you reasons to care.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
And by the way, did Texas just scored the easiest
touchdown of all time? Twenty five yard Tuddy right out
the gate to gunner Helm.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
Yeah, that was live. Oh my goodness, that was just
yeah because the swap possessions. I didn't want to pull
on John Sterling. He thought maybe it was a replay.
Whoa who it was high it is far. Oh that's
a replay. It's replaying.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
I can't believe that just happened, just like that. Wow,
pressures on Arizona State. But what what you're saying? Texas
up thirty seven thirty one.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
Oh they're going for two? Well you have to go
and they scored. Yeah you missed it. Yeah, I say, yeah, Sam,
I can't believe that just happened. That just happened. Oh
and the two points and the two point conversion.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
I forgot you when you you like you swap position possessions? Yeah,
the second over thirty nine thirty one Texas. Now, so
back to week eighteen NFL.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
Oh my goodness.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
Clearly it's not gonna have this type of excitement. Rich, Wait,
except for that game. Hold on, are you trying to
tell me Browns at Ravens, Browns seventeen a half point
underdogs ain't gonna get your little take.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
More reasons to characters, gambling reasons to characters, incentive reasons
to care. And the question was, the simple question was
is this a good game maybe to take your family to?
And Rich was saying, but no stars are playing. I'm like,
who can't you think these nose picker kids, is a
great game to take your family to. I think stars
maybe get a better seat than you would have gotten.

(11:08):
Go to stub Hub go. Kids don't care, They're going
for the experience. All they're gonna remember is that mom
and dad took them to the game. I think this
is absolutely a game you go to talk about.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
I mean, I remember going to a Mets game as
a kid, and you know you would get mad. Imagine
if you went to a Yankees game and Derek Jeter
wasn't starting. You go to a Lakers game if a
Lebron's not playing, you're mad. You know ahead of time. Hey,
kids in the NFL, you want to go.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
See the Chiefs? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (11:33):
Dad, Yeah, but guess what, No Mahomes, no Kelsey, no anybody.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
I don't think, well you don't. You don't present it
that way. You present it with We're going to a
game and hey we got good seats.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
Yeah, we're going to a game and you're gonna watch
Carson Wentz whether you like it or not.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
Enjoy. Yeah, and you know there's still reason, like we said,
incentive reasons to watch and to care. But I think
this could be fun.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
I don't think how spoiled is your kid if that's
what they care about. When they're eating popcorn, they're having
the fixes, they have a hot dog, You buy him
a jersey. They got better season they probably would have
would have got otherwise. I think this is a perfect
time to take your family to a game. Two hundred
and forty total yards for Scataboo right now. They just

(12:15):
got a thirteen yard gain on first and just wanted
to say scataboo. So of course I did I call
him Scatman?

Speaker 2 (12:20):
Do yeah, Scatman.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
Dome threw it away on first and ten from around
the twelfth. You know what, I'm rich indirectly pretty much
put an exclamation point on this conversation without even trying.
He doesn't care about Week eighteen. No matter how hard
I try to talk about it. He keeps going back
to this game, so clearly you know he doesn't care.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
Let me tell you why I don't care.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
I get so I get why some teams are resting
certain players. I don't want to get in the tired
conversation because everyone else did already on this network and
other networks, right say, Kwon Bark, we understand, but it
is you know, I'm not a fan of it, but
we understand Mahomes is sitting. I get it, but I'm
saying that some of the ooh, that could be an
interesting scenario sars are even lesser because you look at

(13:06):
like at Joe Burrow, everyone's saying the same thing. Wouldn't
it be cool if the Bengals snuck in because he
has so much, so much excitement. Now the defense are Cincinnati,
you know, nothing to write home about.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
I mean, there's a lot of people that bring Joe
Burrow up when it comes to MVP covers. But guess
what that conversation ends.

Speaker 1 (13:24):
When all of a sudden, the Chiefs are not going
to try to beat Denver, so Denver wins.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
Denver's in.

Speaker 1 (13:30):
So it's like, you know, if the Chiefs were playing,
you'd be like, oh, the schedule plays out the way
it's supposed to.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
The Broncos have.

Speaker 1 (13:36):
To play the Chiefs, and typically the Chiefs would win
and then all of a sudden, Burrow's got a chance.
Miami's sitting there going like, oh man, we don't got
a chance either now. So I think all those up
interception Texas game over.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
They move on. The game is over.

Speaker 8 (13:51):
It's over.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
The kicker has the biggest SIH relief. You know who's
gonna sleep the easiest today.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
That dude with the mullet.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
Mullet dude, Bert Auburn, the kicker for Texas. He would
have been the most hated guy. Dude look like Clancy
Brown and Bad Boys. He would have been the most
hated guy in Austin, Texas had that not gone this way.

Speaker 5 (14:12):
He missed a couple of field goals against Georgia in
the SEC title game.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
My goodness.

Speaker 5 (14:15):
So he's been on kind of a rough couple of games.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
But are straighten up before the next round? Huh and
really quick?

Speaker 3 (14:21):
Rich the numbers right now, the Bengals have a four
percent chance of making the playoffs. If they win and
the Jets beat the Dolphins, their chances go up by
seventeen to seventeen percent. And if the Bengals win and
the Chiefs beat the Broncos, their chances go up to
forty three percent.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
Yeah, I mean the reality is if Broncos win, they're
in and Kansas City's not really playing anyone. So do
we all agree that that game could just sort of
solidify any little excitement for Week eighteen.

Speaker 2 (14:49):
Other than the big game he spoke of. Yeah, I'm
just thinking from a kid's perspective or family perspective, right,
I'm thinking back growing up in New Jersey. I always
wanted to go to NFL games, and back then the
Giants were good, and Jet's said whatever, but but yeah,
even they were pretty decent and they had some big

(15:09):
stars at the time. But I remember my dad would
be able to get stupid New Jersey Generals tickets and
you got to go to the Metal Lands, you got
to go to Giants Stadium to watch them. And that
was exciting to me as a kid because they were
cheap and easy to get. If you're able to get
Week eighteen tickets because there's not a lot of competition

(15:29):
in Week eighteen, I think that's something you look forward
to and look for as a family on a budget
heading into the new year, taking your family to a game,
I think this is the one you go to. I'm
just trying to make definitely spelled w e ak. Yeah,
I get it, but I'm seeing it from a fan
perspective of you're just going to the game for the

(15:50):
fun of it, because, to be honest, dude, if you're
a real NFL fan, you get a.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
Better seat at home anyway. This is these are the
games you go to and just have fun with your
kids and the heirs. The other the other like, ooh,
what could happen? Is that NFC South Bucks and Falcons
still fighting, but they both play bottom feeders. So the
Bucks hold their own destiny. They just have to beat

(16:15):
the Saints at home. Tampa's at home. Baker Mayfield can't
beat the lowly Saints week eighteen. He doesn't deserve it.
So again, I just wish it was more at state
going into Week eighteen. But you know what, the playoffs
are gonna be awesome. I think this year, and I
say that with my team not even being in it,
the playoffs look like they're gonna shape up to be

(16:36):
pretty freaking exciting. I have a question. I just feel
like Week eighteen, you know, you get by by maybe
doing some prop bets, guys looking for incentives and stuff
like that.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
It's not something I plan on talking about. But you
mentioned Mayfield. Yeah, gained even more respect I think we
all did for this guy after the season, right, I
heard your boy Deebo Samuel talking about him, talking about
how he's not the biggest guy, he's not the fastest guy.
I didn't have the best storm, but he plays like
every game's is last. Right, He's a dog, he battles

(17:06):
and he spoke really high on Baker Mayfield. That's fine,
But if you were Brock Party, do you want to
hear stuff like that? It's kind of like your girlfriend
talking about another podcast or radio show when you're the host.
You know, honestly, I'm like, yeah, that's great. No, I
don't really want to hear about it, though I do
the best one. If you were Rock Party, would you
want to hear your teammates hyping up someone else who

(17:30):
deserves the praise. Don't get it wrong, but would you
want to hear that publicly? Because it almost feels like
a sneak diss. It almost says what Rock Party doesn't have,
that fight doesn't have that dog doesn't play like every
game's last in a world. But he's not saying that directly.
You could take it that way.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
I'm sorry I have to say like this in a world,
in a world where so many NBA and NFL players
are in the podcast space, Yeah, aren't they just bounced
to say things that could come across this Hell? Yeah,
I just feel like, you know, and he's just being honest.
I'm just I'm dissecting it taken that we used to
have a Brock Party shoes, which I'm guessing like a

(18:05):
pair of summer Sperries.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
I feel like Brock Party wears uh Lofer Perdy definitely
wears some Sperries.

Speaker 5 (18:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:10):
So if you're Brock Purty, well he's on those boot commercials, right, Yeah,
if you were in some boots, he's wearing some hay dudes.
If if you were in some hay dudes like Rock Party,
Rich wears those cheap ones. They're called suck Bros. So
if your Brock Pursy got his at Payless suck.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
Bros, Perty's and some Ariot boots.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
Yeah, if you're Brock Purty, I wouldn't want to hear it,
but yourself in his boots?

Speaker 2 (18:35):
Would you want to hear your one?

Speaker 1 (18:36):
Are your star players talk about how Baker Mayfield's the
man it's like, you're right, it's sort of like your
wife or girlfriend talking about how some other guys so
successful or ripped or hung or I don't.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
Know, Oh yeah, you heard me. You don't want to
hear these.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
Things as the kiddos say the kiddos, the youngsters, as
you say the younglings, Danny g he was sort of
glazing Baker Mayfield, and I wouldn't like it while I
was brock Bardy, I wouldn't. I think the best example
of this because there was a trade and transaction gone wrong.
So many of us by now, I've seen the four
Red Sox documentary. Yeah, when Red Sox were talking about

(19:15):
a Rod and how they would want him over no More.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
Yeah, that's horrible.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
That was Kevin Moore, and then the trade didn't go down,
and then no More had to look at his teammates
who all were like, oh, yeah, we thought we were
getting a Rod.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
Sorry, sorry, bro No, that was terrible. So again you
mentioned the Buccaneers and I saw that clip and it
just made me think something I thought about when I
was on the treadmill today.

Speaker 3 (19:39):
Yeah, but Mayfield lost some points because that viral post
that's gone around of him sharing cookies and milk with
his O line. They're sharing a glass of milk with
each other. That is it pretty gross milk.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
Milk might be the grossest beverage to share.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
And everyone's got the in. The NFL has gotten to
respect Baker. My whole cookie fell in there. I saw that.

Speaker 3 (20:03):
Yeah, he's been alignment, still ticket and took a swig.

Speaker 2 (20:07):
So week eighteen is it weak? Here's what we'll leave
you with Fox Sports Radio Nation, and again, congratulations to Texas.
Is it week eighteen or week eighteen? You would have
been so jealous so of the weekend.

Speaker 1 (20:21):
I'm never jealousy, not at me walking around for ten
hours at SeaWorld and my kids, which, by the way,
great time.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
But kids are kids are a lot.

Speaker 9 (20:29):
Man.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
You've got two little kids at the fen park all day.
That's not a day off.

Speaker 1 (20:33):
Have kids, they said, My goodness, But I went to
old town San Diego, and you would have been so
jealous of the Moley sauce I had.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
I know you're a big Moley Pablano fan.

Speaker 1 (20:42):
Holy Molly, Well you finally played with a good Molay
Hi demes, right U.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
You know we got so much to get to today
and rich you said, you missed some major storylines because
you know, we were in the middle of the holiday season.
You forget what day it is. Did you hear about
the new conspiracy? No, it's not drones or plasmoids. It's
the fog. Have you heard about the fog? Is there

(21:07):
a bad movie about this? No, but there's like a
chemical fog that people everybody's waking up and they're like
something like this, Why is this so foggy out? Yeah,
but they're like, is this in No? That was the bees?
Was this snow happening? Is this trees? Nature was killing us?
Is this involved with the drones? Why is there so

(21:29):
much fog? And then apparently there's a weird fog like
all over the country and people are trying to figure
it out. It's called I love a good conspiracy, and
we love some good Aaron Rodgers talk. So when the teature.

Speaker 7 (21:40):
Drops and the air is warm, it creates not a
boister in the air, which.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
About the government and aliens working together? I must be
the answer. You can't wait to hear Aaron Rodgers take
on this. The most complex is always the right answer.
But Aaron Rodgers always gets himself involved in some sort
of sound bite or controversy. He hasn't mentioned the fog yet,
but that that is a fun one on social media,
so it has to be true. He has said something

(22:05):
though that has gone viral. I thought it was a fake,
so did I like an onion story? And you have
to ask yourself is he serious? And I think he is?
Or is he saying this just so that people talk
about him. Take a listen and listen closely to what
Aaron Rodgers has said.

Speaker 10 (22:22):
Gratitude.

Speaker 8 (22:23):
Honestly, it's been the best two years of my life.
Now that's a perspective adjustment that happened, I think at
some point during the reab process last year. But just
the excitement falling back in love with the game, getting
to know these guys in here, getting to know the
great men and women to work here. Obviously on the
field has been short of expectations, no doubt, But this
game is more than just that. This game is about
the relationships by the things that really last longer than this,

(22:43):
lasts longer than your health does, and lasts longer than
your body being able to play. So I'm really thankful
for the men and women I met here in New
Jersey and the experiences I got to have with my
teammates and joined the city, and obviously wish things would
have gotten better on the field, but put nothing with
gratitude for this.

Speaker 6 (22:56):
Time in my life.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
Man, I just got back from New Jersey and it's great,
but it's not that great. Pizza, great Taylor Ham sandwiches.
It was great to see my parents, but it's not
that great. The question is you hear the sham Aaron Rodgers.
Does it make you understand him more or just roll
your eyes at him more? Because when you talk about perspective,
he said the injury gave him the ability to fall

(23:18):
in love with the game all over when he you know,
found themselves not learning how to play again, but getting
back on the field Moore, he said, all the right things,
but the best two years of his life.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
That's crazy. More and more important than W's might be
those relationships he talks about.

Speaker 2 (23:34):
Which is true. Here I wrote down notes because I
was like, is this a joke? I wrote, I understand,
I knew. I understand everything he said, and it's beautiful.
I understand, but I don't necessarily like it as a
sports fan. As a sports fan, and I get it.

Speaker 1 (23:50):
You could separate your professional life to your personal life.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
But he's Aaron Rodgers, the football player. How in the world.

Speaker 1 (23:56):
Could he say these are the best two years of
his life. That's hard to wrap your fat head around.
I have a hard time believe in that. I believe
that's a great outlook for him to have. I just
don't know if that's possible. You know, one of our pals,
Gary Vee, the motivational dude on social media.

Speaker 2 (24:10):
Of course, I know, Gary v is that rhetorical question, Yes,
it is actually.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
Okay, Gary Vaynerchuk, Gary Vannderchuck, Gary vaynert Chuck. I mean
he talks about how in life he keeps it real.
But when he's a sports fan, he realizes that when
you're a fan, a fanatic, your mind allows you to
think illogically. You you root and care more than you

(24:35):
should about certain things. That's part of being a fan. So,
as a fan, do you want to hear Aaron Rodgers
say these are the two best years of his life? No,
we as fan, We as fans have odd expectations of
athletes and coaches. You gotta tell me before us Doug gott
leaves a coach, he posts a picture or he posts
a picture on the holidays, and what do people say immediately, Yeah,
stop with her and get back to the gym.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
Yeah, no, it's true, your family should be working.

Speaker 1 (24:59):
We all wear two different hats, right, personal and professional.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
Actually, Cam Newton wears lots of hats, actually lots of things. Yeah,
there's all sorts of Mountie hats. Did he say baseball
was going to take a back seat at the w NBA.
He's operating a hot air balloon, as we all wear
different hats. But I find it impossible for this guy
to have had this injury and to have played as

(25:23):
bad as he's played and the team has been How
about the embarrassing last game? Holy, Holy Mother of God.

Speaker 1 (25:30):
There's no way, there's no way you could say is
the best two years of your life?

Speaker 2 (25:33):
No, give me a goodies, Holy Mother of God. You
know what. I just watched twilights On the movie as
as you know, we had a twilights on marathon in
the past few days. And when the guy steps out
to see the plane and the damage that the at
the beast had done outside of the plane, and he goes,
Holy Toledo. So I was a little confused there, So

(26:02):
Holy Toledo. You're gonna tell me that he had the
best two years of his life. Like I said, it's
beautiful to find the silver lining in all this. What
does it mean? God? Why have I suffered? And you
know he says I've made great relationships, I fell in
love with him.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
These are all wonderful things. As a sports fan, I
don't like it. Man to man, I get it, I understand.
But as a sports fan, as we're doing here on
Fox Sports, we're talking sports beat it, I don't want
to hear that. You think I want to hear Aaron
Judge talk about how great his last year has been.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
Like, really, dude, you dropped the ball.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
You see how someone SYNCD up that if you started
watching Game five at a certain point. Aaron Judge dropped
the ball at midnight. And by the way he announces,
you know he's having a baby. Hey, personally, I'm happy
for him, But professionally, I want that to fire you
up and drive you like.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
Does that I mean it's timmy. He's gonna start looking
like Soto's Yes, no, no, you almost a fan won
a level of discontent from the athletes that aren't producing.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
You don't want to hear the grandest time ever, you
said the best roll back what you said thirty seconds ago.
Through this man to man, I get it as a
sports fan, Get the hell out of here.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
That's it.

Speaker 1 (27:16):
You know, these are the two different hats we wear.
Athletes are people too, you know, but think about it,
professional just like us.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
Yeah, but dude, they're known. We watched Aaron Rodgers the
football player. We don't watch Aaron Rodgers the man. Right,
that's who we care about. That enigma. Yeah that's Aaron
Rodgers man.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
But you know what, I agree because there are times
like I go back, Hey, we're coming up on the
five year anniversary of COVID, Right, there's a crappy year.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
We lost a gig. You know this too.

Speaker 1 (27:45):
I love two gigs. Some people lost, some people lost
family members. Yeah, I mean there was a lot of
bad stuff. But you know what, personally for me, my
wife and I had a baby that year, we bought
a house that year. Thinks is when people how was it?

Speaker 2 (27:58):
In my mind? I'm like, you know what, a lot
went down. That was a pretty awesome year. Worst year ever.

Speaker 1 (28:04):
But but what I'm saying is I get man to
man versus what you want to hear are two different things.
You want Aaron Rogers to be like, Man, you know what,
I'm embarrassed. The worst years of my life. Sorry Jets,
sorry everyone, Sorry fans.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
And you know what, Rich, Then if you really think
these are the two best years of your life.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
You heard him on MACS there's a girlfriend and he's happy.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
I get it. Then you know what, but preface it
with that he doesn't live. Preface no, but preface it
with that. You know, man, I didn't meet my expectations.
There you go.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
I feel like he's yeah, but I feel like you
really got to emphasize that before you tell me how
great your life has been.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
Seriously, as a fan.

Speaker 1 (28:45):
If Aaron Rodgers found love, he did, yeah, and he said,
you know what, it really put football in perspective.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
He's on his ayahuasca journeys. If he's happy and healthy,
lose That's how people lose their hunger though, Rich, you
need something to fight for. You need that that chip
on your sh older, that anger. You need that extra
motivation sometimes to compete, that extra edge. These dudes are hungry.
In the NFL. He's too content sitting back with his
feet up. That's not who you want leading your team.

Speaker 1 (29:15):
Because Kansas City is sitting their stars, stars stars, you're
not stars, You're not gonna get a legit Broncos Chiefs game,
which means I mean, maybe Carson Wentz delivers. I mean
he's fighting for something, right, But the whole point of
that game was, ooh, if the Chiefs beat the Broncos,

(29:36):
then Joe Burrow or the Dolphins have a shot to
sneak into the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (29:41):
But now it seems like the Kansas City Chiefs are.

Speaker 1 (29:44):
Just getting ready for the playoffs, and by sitting their stars,
they're gonna have a lot of rest because they won't
play this week. They won't play week one in the
wild card, so you're again counting on weeks and weeks
of rest, and we've seen that.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
Go either way. Yeah, health is wealth, I get it,
So get it.

Speaker 1 (30:01):
The Saquon thing, maybe we'll touch on later. Everyone else's
I get it, but I don't. Again, safety measures that
sort of week kind of weak.

Speaker 2 (30:11):
But here's a couple of things you could bet on.
But you know what, if he broke the record sort
of week anyway, you know, no one would have gave
him the credit.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
Do you think that plays into it. Part of me
thinks it does. You're avoiding, you're avoiding a meaningless debate.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
Yeah, he would have had it done it last week
to get that full pat on the back.

Speaker 1 (30:29):
Yeah, but think of how long until the steroid era
there are still people that were like.

Speaker 2 (30:34):
Well, Roger Marriage did any more games than Babe Ruth.
People were arguing about that sixty years ago. Yeah, exact.
So I mean, like, we added another game.

Speaker 1 (30:43):
People want more Footballerson's relieved. Oh, he's happy.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
Yeah. And he made he didn't want that broken. I
don't blame him, and he made no. Uh, he wasn't try.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
About it either, Eh, I don't blame him. Appreciate the honesty.
But couple guys, let me let me throw these out there.
If you're looking for some prop bets. Mike Evans big
incentives if he catches five passes for eighty five or
more yards. So, if you're looking at some prop bets
to make the Bucks still put up some points this
week for sure, Mike Evans, you got Tony Pollard needs

(31:11):
fifty three.

Speaker 2 (31:12):
Yards, Gino Smith, this is a big one. If he
gets ten wins.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
I believe a million dollar incentive kicks in which means
Gino is at nine wins now ten.

Speaker 2 (31:22):
Wins money on the Seahawks.

Speaker 1 (31:24):
And he needs one hundred and eighty five plus yards
passing for another big I think half a million dollar incentives.
So Gino's playing for a lot of money. So I
expect Gino Smith to be balling, expect Mike Evans to
be balling.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
JK.

Speaker 1 (31:38):
Dobbins has one hundreds of thousands of dollars on the line.
If these are fun reasons to watch, but fifty eight
plus yards for JK.

Speaker 2 (31:44):
Dobbins.

Speaker 1 (31:45):
Derrick Henry gets another five hundred thousand dollars if he
gets a touchdown.

Speaker 2 (31:54):
So money on that.

Speaker 1 (31:56):
So again, maybe you parlay all these little fun things
into one bet.

Speaker 5 (32:00):
Here's the thing with Gino and the Seahawks. Great if
they get to ten wins, awesome, But they've already been
eliminated from playoff contention.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
So it's cheap.

Speaker 5 (32:06):
It's a cheap little bonus incentive. But I mean, who
you root for the player of the billion dollar organization.
I don't care about his incentive. It doesn't it doesn't
mean anything. It's it's need anything. I get it for
him personally. I know it's good.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
It would have been It would have been fun if
that Seahawks Rams game Men's nine, if it came down
to that. But it's already tie breaker goes the Rams way,
so it's already settled. But hey, Gino, Tony Pollard, he's
got something to play for Derrick Henry.

Speaker 2 (32:34):
DeAndre Hopkins needs a bunch of catches.

Speaker 1 (32:35):
Oh DeAndre Hopkins two if he goes buck wild, like
over one hundred and twenty five yards or something.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
So there's a lot of them, you know what.

Speaker 1 (32:42):
I'll post some of them at Covine on Rich so
you could play along. Did you see the list that
came out of all of our favorite comedians and how
much they made last year?

Speaker 2 (32:51):
Tell me about it, Rich, I'm being said.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
I just remember a couple of years ago we saw
our palace Abastian Menoescalco, and it was like, what do
you make twenty thirty million dollars? You know, Nate BARGATESI
made more money than anyone this year on the road. Really,
But there's a handful of guys you see on social
media and they must be nice.

Speaker 2 (33:09):
Sebastian Fluffy.

Speaker 3 (33:12):
Last night during the New Year's celebrations on TV, there
were a bunch of Nicky Glazer bad Nicki Glazer promos
for the Golden Globes.

Speaker 2 (33:19):
Yeah, she's hosting this year. She made a lot of
bank Yeah, being held hostage by the network. Her life
changed after the Tom Brady roast. And we're gonna talk
Tom Brady and being rich and just one moment. But
that comedian list Joe Cooy was on there. You said,
Gabe Glezias. Gabe Iglesias, I mean Sandler.

Speaker 1 (33:41):
But there were a handful of comics that were all
banking twenty thirty forty milliks the time for comedians, man,
it really is well. Props to them, and thanks to
Joe Coy he reached out to us recently, big fan.

Speaker 5 (33:51):
I did you guys see this that Creed made the
most money touring that they've ever made in their career,
like sixty four million dollars.

Speaker 2 (33:57):
I did see that.

Speaker 5 (33:58):
Yeah, they had a huge year, like they had an
amazing comeback. Okay, second thing here.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
And by the way, you know inspired all that truth.
I'm not trying to bring it back to sports. Kirk,
the Texas Rangers really inspired.

Speaker 5 (34:08):
I thought it'd be a Kirk Cousins like singing. I
thought you were going to c in the locker room.
It was not your interview now and my interview.

Speaker 2 (34:18):
I did Reunited and Unplugged special with them, that is true,
But I got from them that if it wasn't for Texas,
the Texas Rangers, it would have never happened.

Speaker 5 (34:27):
Good for them, I mean, you know they they for
a long time were sort of like a punchline of jokes.
But there it's a good band and they've had a
hell of a comeback and now they're a cool again.

Speaker 2 (34:37):
You know, there is a market for all that nostalgia
rich for sure, of course, and comedians. Props to all
of them making bank. But you know what, I have
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speaking of rich people, I have a question based on

(35:21):
a funny clip I saw between Gronk and Edelman. They
were talking about their good bud Brady, who also made
lots of money. Of course he did in the past year,
and he's investing his money. Take a listen to what
Gronk and Edelman had to say about their boy.

Speaker 11 (35:38):
He should be the Raiders owner, not Tom, Just kidding, Tom. Yeah,
and we need you as a Raiders owner because then
you'll be like really rich, and then you can get
a yacht and Juli and I can come on.

Speaker 12 (35:47):
Yeah yeah, and then you can give us like cushy
like scouting jobs, like a million dollars a year.

Speaker 10 (35:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (35:53):
We love you, Tom, and we love it here.

Speaker 6 (35:55):
How he's not the owner ear of the owner.

Speaker 1 (35:56):
Tom.

Speaker 6 (35:56):
We need you, buddy, to hang out with you more
and maybe if we need a job in the future.
That's what if you're bro one dude always gives a
job to their like bro.

Speaker 2 (36:05):
Like, that's called daydreaming duty.

Speaker 10 (36:08):
So the.

Speaker 2 (36:10):
Daydreaming duding. Yeah, that's what uh some people do. I
guess what. Yeah, Well, they were talking about how we
Long and Gronk playfully said, how we Long should be
the owner of the Raiders, Tom, not Tom, just kidding Tom,
because we want our bud to make lots of money.
And it's easy for them to say because they're all
well off. Okay, Gronk's doing pretty good. Last I checked

(36:35):
Edelman doing pretty good.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
You always see that rumor that Gronk never spent the
dollar of his NFL money, that he.

Speaker 2 (36:41):
Just uh yeah, he used all his endorsement money.

Speaker 1 (36:43):
And invested it and just only lived on endorsement money.
That's true, then he's wrong. He's lived on tide pod money.

Speaker 4 (36:49):
Right.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
So based on that clip, and you just mentioned all
the comedians that are slaying it, is it annoying or
awesome to have a rich friend? Can you really roll
with a guy that's living a completely different lifestyle than
you like? Is that really your boy? Can he really

(37:11):
relate to you in any way? Right? If you have
real life things going on and you're struggling just to
get food on the table and this dude's talking about
buying yachts, are you really on the same page? Doesn't
make him a bad guy. I'm not saying that he's
a bad guy, But is it annoying to you or
awesome if you have a friend who's significantly wealthier than you.

(37:34):
This was the premise of entourage.

Speaker 1 (37:36):
I mean, yeah, you know it's you know, I've never
been in that situation before.

Speaker 2 (37:41):
I'll tell you why you're not. I don't think I
want to put myself in I don't like hanging out
with big dudes because I feel like they're little buddies.
I'm let alone guys with big pockets I.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
Want to I don't want to get in our first
fight of twenty twenty five, but it might happen.

Speaker 2 (37:55):
It's not I'm just a chill guy. The Covino. Yeah,
I'm like that. That mean with the dog. Yeah, isn't
that like an Ardvark or something. Yeah, I'm like that
Ardvark is something. Yeah, just the chill guy. I already
tweeted out first fight for CNR of twenty twenty five.

Speaker 1 (38:10):
You know it is guy's got to follow through Caveno
and and I don't blame him because I'm not saying
I love hanging out with awesome dudes that are way
cooler than me.

Speaker 2 (38:20):
But Cavino only wants to hang.

Speaker 1 (38:22):
With people that are his level or not doing as
well financially, looks or anything. Cavino doesn't want to hang
out like a conscious decision. So I mean buddies, Yeah,
but he actually have a criterion checklist how it works,
less money than me.

Speaker 2 (38:38):
Yeah, that's what you think. I want to hang with
like super handsome guys get out of here. Yeah, that's
avoid them. That's my point. My point isod. My point
is not consciously anyway, if if.

Speaker 1 (38:48):
Cavino bumped into you know, give me like a handsome
rich guy Jason Jason Momo or Ryan Reynolds Cavel or
you know, I'm dying to be his You're essentially his
chubby best friend. Every Lake has like a like a
chubby best friend. And so you're saying that you will

(39:13):
never want to be the equivalent of like the Hawk
girl's chubby friend.

Speaker 2 (39:16):
No, no, I mean I'm not saying I won't be.
But who the hell strives for that? Who wants to
be nobody? So that's where the question comes from.

Speaker 1 (39:24):
I think a feather right, like listen, if you are
doing well in life, it is a little tricky to
hang out people in.

Speaker 2 (39:29):
Different Gronk and Edelman could could say these things about Tommy.
You know, hey man, because they're rich Tommy, but tom
may have wealth, Right, so it's okay if you're a
regular guy, can you really be friends or is there
always a subconscious envy? I don't say jealous, but like

(39:50):
an envy dynamic dynamic for sure, Right, there's definitely a
dynamic like if if you go out to dinner, Let's
say you're a modest guy making you know, regular guy
money and your friends making millions, is there a weird
feeling every time you hang out with that guy like
is he paying? I mean he's got the money.

Speaker 1 (40:10):
Like there's there is layers like that's why you notice
a lot of people end up hanging with people in
their same Yeah, because of the situation. Yeah, because it's uh,
they have more in common. There's just an understanding.

Speaker 2 (40:21):
Like even something like going to a game.

Speaker 1 (40:23):
And I'm not forcibly trying to bring this back into sports,
but if you're going to a ball game with a friend,
if you have money and you're saying like, all right,
do we're going to the bowl game and we're going
to the NFL playoffs?

Speaker 2 (40:34):
What are we gonna get? Sweet?

Speaker 1 (40:35):
Tickets field level fifty yard line, and then your other
buddy might be like, yo, dude, I can't afford that
open go upper deck corner of the end zone.

Speaker 2 (40:42):
That starts driving that.

Speaker 1 (40:43):
Then this imagine it's like, well, then the one guy's like,
don't worry, bro, I'll cover you.

Speaker 2 (40:47):
Then it's like I don't need your money.

Speaker 1 (40:49):
Like there comes awkward a little bit. Yeah, you could
see that, right, You could see how those things start.

Speaker 2 (40:55):
To be an issue.

Speaker 1 (40:58):
And as we all grow in life and professionally, you
might be that guy that's doing well and good for you,
and maybe that's why your buddy doesn't want to hang
with you.

Speaker 2 (41:09):
Right, think about it. This is maybe the.

Speaker 1 (41:12):
Subconscious or reason that people don't necessarily want to bring
up that jove those relationships apart. But it is nice
to hear how Gronk and Element are rooting for time again.
You know where this happens a lot with women, because
I'm sure we've all heard our wives or girlfriends talk
about this. Someone gets married, that's a bachelorette party. There

(41:33):
are times where if the girl get married, she's got
a little flow comes from money. She makes money, her husband,
her future husband makes money. That bachelorette party. Between that,
the dress that everything that goes with it could be
thousands and thousands and thousands.

Speaker 2 (41:49):
Of dollars and her friend might be like, yo, I
don't have that type of money. It's like the movie Bridesmaids.
It's almost like they made a movie maas spot. I
could see how that's annoying. Now I have big goals, right,
so I don't really feel the way rich has described
it because I'm like, well, my goals are big, so
I'm going to sell you on my on my goals

(42:09):
and dreams. I might not be where I want to
be right now, but I'll be there. That's my confidence talking, right,
But goals don't sign the check.

Speaker 1 (42:17):
It would be kind of annoying if like, your buddy
has all the things that you're striving for. I probably
I know that sounds superficial, but and it shouldn't because
you could reap the benefits like they're in the same breath,
which we could say, hey, man, it's got to be
fun to have a friend with a boat.

Speaker 2 (42:34):
Because you can always go on that boat. But guess what,
it's not your boat? But is that your ego? Though?
And here's why can I can I please say one
more thing, please do I'm starting to see that with
my nephew. Right. Look, we live here in California, and
my nephew has two hard working parents and you know
they're check to check, but they have love, and they

(42:56):
have all these other great things and Uncle Steve. They
have Uncle Steve. If I am Jordan's and everything right,
But his friends here in La some of them got cash.

Speaker 1 (43:05):
And they're having these crazy kid birthday parties where they're
renting out crazy things and boats in arcades.

Speaker 2 (43:12):
And your sister's might a Sheetcake from Ralph's. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (43:14):
So in that now I'm seeing my little kids, my
little nephews, starting to realize, well, wow, we're uh, we're
not doing as well as these other kids I'm friends with.
That's gotta be tough in a lot of ways. So again,
I can't necessarily relate rich because I've never been put
in that situation where I don't want to be this

(43:35):
guy's annoying because he's got too much money for me.

Speaker 2 (43:38):
But then again, I'm not friends with anybody rich. You
know what, maybe they don't want to be friends with me.
I'm not on their team.

Speaker 5 (43:45):
My friends with a guy named rich though.

Speaker 1 (43:46):
I think a lot of times, as we get older,
you got your high school bros, your college buddies, guys,
you know, guys you may have played sports with or
went to school with. You you grow up, but sometimes
you do roll apart because of financial reasons. I know
that sounds terrible, but it really is true. If one
guy is vacationing in the Maldives and he's, uh, you know,

(44:08):
he has different residencies and the other buddies like, y'all, dude,
like I have a I have cardboard.

Speaker 2 (44:14):
Furniture, you know, like there's there's a big difference. All right.

Speaker 1 (44:18):
I'll give you an example here on the network. If
our pal Colin Cowherd stars Stars Stars.

Speaker 2 (44:29):
He's rolling Stars.

Speaker 1 (44:31):
So if Colin cow Herd's like coreno rich stars, you're
filling in for me on the Herd on Friday, why
don't we.

Speaker 2 (44:40):
Come over my place. You're a little barbecue. Yeah, but
they don't put us on TV. Man, it's messed up.
You know what. Intimidated by your great hair, that's probably
it's got a wine cellar too. Hey, put some dufis
on the TV side of it. You know why.

Speaker 1 (44:53):
Intimidated by Kevin nor Rich's hair. We'll do the radio.
We'll do the radio side. Colin's got a wine cellar.
I hate them. So you know what I'm saying. If
we were at Collins house, I went to Dan Patrick's house,
we would be like wow. But deep down it's like
Cavino would be like MOPy or he really would. He's
got a statue of himself in his hallway. Come on, look,

(45:17):
it's a form of hunger. Yeah that that that stuff
motivates me Rich, It really does.

Speaker 2 (45:22):
It does in a.

Speaker 5 (45:24):
Can, goa toilet seed.

Speaker 2 (45:25):
See like, I look at it this way.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
If it was a family member, I'm happy for their success, right,
that's the healthy way to be.

Speaker 2 (45:34):
Right. You're not rooting against your family in any weird
way to their will.

Speaker 1 (45:37):
But yeah, because you really care for that person, you
want them to succeed. But we're talking just a friend,
or maybe it was a close friend and that dude.
It's got to be tough when you guys are coming together, right,
Say two dudes are coming up together, you're the best buds.

Speaker 2 (45:54):
One dude starts blowing up, the other dude is living
a regular life. You know, got to be tough for
regular guy. You know what you see this outside of sports.
To tie back to the conversation, we just had. Comedy.

Speaker 1 (46:06):
A lot of times the comedian will go from making peanuts,
sleeping on couches like playing a little Chuckles comedy clubs,
and then within a couple of years something happens and
you're a guy like Matt Rife, who all of a
sudden went from you know, handsome young kid to he
was one of those guys on the list of who

(46:27):
made the most money in twenty twenty five, twenty four
in the comedy world, and your other buddies still doing
comedy at small clubs. It's got to create a weird feeling, dude.
And by the way, we're about to see Ohio State
go up thirty nothing.

Speaker 2 (46:40):
Oh it is going on dominating even show. I know.

Speaker 1 (46:47):
So again, this all came I it was a video game.
Could organ hit the Nintendo reset the switch with their
big toe? No, this all came up because Gronk and Edelman.
I thought it was a funny conversation. We're talking about
how jokingly, how we long should be the owner of
the Raiders, not Tom Brady. You're like, no, no, no,
We're just kidding Tom, because you're gonna have a yacht
and we're your boys, so we're gonna be partying.

Speaker 2 (47:09):
We're gonna reap the benefit. You know what, I'm having
a wealthy friend. Listen to that.

Speaker 1 (47:13):
Easy for them to say because they've got money. But
listen to that clip one more time. Them talking about
Tom Brady Gronkin Edelman.

Speaker 11 (47:21):
He should be the Raiders owner, not Tom, Just kidding, Tom,
And we need you as a Raiders owner because then
you'll be like really rich, and then you can get
a yacht and Julie and I can come on it.

Speaker 12 (47:30):
Yeah yeah, and then you can give us like cushy
like scouting jobs, like a million dollars a year.

Speaker 10 (47:35):
Yeah. We love you, Tom, We love it.

Speaker 11 (47:37):
Hear how he's not the owner here of the owner.

Speaker 2 (47:39):
Tom.

Speaker 6 (47:39):
We need you, buddy, to hang out with you more
and maybe if we need a job in the future.
That's what dudes. If you're bro one dude always gives
a job to their like bro Like.

Speaker 2 (47:48):
That's called day dreaming duty daydreaming, dude, down with this
or not?

Speaker 1 (47:54):
That's really the question. Daydreaming, duding, are you daydreaming that? Hey,
it may not be me. If one of my boys
gets rich and famous. I'm in Entourage.

Speaker 2 (48:03):
Style daydreaming duding. That's what Edelmand said, daydreaming dude, daydreaming
dream Well, we have friends with boats, which we're at
that level, and I'm not jealous of them in any way.
I just look at it the way they look at it,
like I guess I could go on a boat every
once in a while.

Speaker 1 (48:18):
That's kind of fun something to think about, and especially
I guess that in the world of sports and comedy,
two places where all of a sudden, two people that
knew each other their whole life. One guy goes pro,
one guy doesn't, one guy selling out Madison Square Garden,
some guy's still playing uh, you know, Laughers and Burbank.

Speaker 2 (48:36):
Well, you know that's what the song Scars is about.

Speaker 1 (48:39):
You know, I'm the rock host of Turbo forty one
every night on SERESX.

Speaker 2 (48:43):
Are you the guy that I got Creed their big
break this?

Speaker 6 (48:45):
Ye?

Speaker 2 (48:45):
Yeah, yeah yeah. That's why scott'st want to hang out,
but I'm like, you're too rich for me, dude. The
song Scars, the scar reminds Kobe Stars Scars. It reminds
him that the past is real because he used to,
you know, run the streets with his boys and do
hood rat things. But he had bigger dreams of his

(49:08):
band blowing up. But his buddies were still doing the
same old things and going down a different path, not
such a great path. So he had to separate himself
from that and say, yeah, man, I'm going to be
a rock star and do my thing. But his buddies
really couldn't.

Speaker 1 (49:25):
Keep up with that sort of drive and that sort
of life, and they went down a different path of
drugs and and and not so good things. But that
scar reminds him that the past was real, and that's
what that whole song's about.

Speaker 2 (49:37):
It's not about a woman or anything. It's about his friendship. Sound.

Speaker 1 (49:39):
We do a segment called Covino breaks down because divorced
Dad rockets.

Speaker 2 (49:43):
But it's true. I mean a lot of people probably
think that's about a woman. Yeah, you don't want to
be a freeloader.

Speaker 7 (49:49):
One yeah, Two, this is it's no more prevalent that
you can't hang with someone who has more money than
you than the holiday season. If you look at all
these stories of all the athletes like giving gifts to
their teammates and friends, and it's like they're all north
of like one hundred thousand dollars gifts for multiple people.

(50:11):
So there's no way that you're hanging in the same
league as someone with that kind of money.

Speaker 1 (50:16):
And by the way, Spot literally and figure Spot brings
up one great point that I think we could end
this conversation. It was a funny clip, like we said
of Tom being talked about by Grunk and Edelman. Could
you hang out with really rich people if your friends
or family members somehow catch a good break or they're
super talented.

Speaker 2 (50:30):
Do you feel like you fit in with the Bustons? Might?

Speaker 1 (50:33):
I think this is extremely relevant because we just wrapped
up the holiday season. I feel like people love to talk.
How much does your family and friends love to gossip
and talk about other people, especially around the holidays.

Speaker 2 (50:46):
I mean it's all my parents do. Yeah, they're gossip queens.

Speaker 1 (50:49):
If someone had money and they get everyone a really
great gift, what does everyone say, Hey, looking damn hot
shot ding dude, look at them, but wait, bought me
a car? Like if you ca you know, if you
got a big deal one day and you're like Mom
and Dad, I'm gonna you know, I'm gonna buy your
house soon.

Speaker 2 (51:04):
Think about it. Remember when Richie Villence bought his parent
his mama washing machine in her new house. Remember how
Bob was so like upset about it. If she now
she loves Richie Moore. If you look at it the
right though.

Speaker 1 (51:15):
If the rich person does something leftovers like a dog,
if the rich person does something elaborate, listens five hundred
dollars heartless, Remember how bad he he felt, sort of
like he he felt weak about it. I'm just saying,
if someone was the underachieving son, if someone rich buys
everyone big gifts, there, show off and look at who

(51:35):
they think they are. As your dad would say, all right,
let's uh, let's go to midweek major spot.

Speaker 2 (51:45):
There we go.

Speaker 4 (51:47):
Covino and Rich get you over the middle of the
week where mid week Major. I love that we throw
sports and pop culture headlines and topics at the fellas
and it's like the case, I'd say, that's summit. We
definitely here seeing our scoring mid week major.

Speaker 2 (52:08):
Look at the clock.

Speaker 3 (52:09):
Gotta give Spotty at least seven full minutes, whole seven minutes.
When you hear the horns, you know you have made
it to the middle of the week, all right. Before
we hand things over to the number one and only
hosts of the segmentos seeing our role in the Big
Red Love Dice over there in the main studio, I
just rolled a six. This is to see who gets
first time. Yeah, that was the slowest role I've every controlled.

Speaker 2 (52:31):
The five Oh rickroll, it's Camino. It's gonna go first.

Speaker 3 (52:35):
And now, ladies and gentlemen, the most famous person besides
Judy Bloom from Scotch playings New Jersey Spotty Boy.

Speaker 7 (52:43):
All right, since Covino's leaving off, all jump in with
the Yanks, everyone dropping their year end recaps. Of course,
everyone loves to do that on social media, pat themselves
on the back, including none other than Yankee slugger Aaron Judge.
And since everyone loves to analyze and nitpick everything, fans
notice that one person was noticeably absent from Judge's montage
and he guesses who this is? Soo soo ah yes

(53:07):
before won so now Mets player Mets fan our fans
called out the absence on social media also played it up,
being like Sodo, who who's this guy?

Speaker 2 (53:17):
I don't even know what are you talking about?

Speaker 7 (53:19):
So no word on whether or not this was intentional,
but it is noticeable midweaker major.

Speaker 2 (53:23):
I think it's so major and I like it. Oh
stop it, I do because you need that fire. Anything
that motivates you is good for me. And the way
that Sodo slapped him in the face and backstabbed the
Yankees and his relationship with Josh step Yeah, I hope
that Aaron Judge uses that that to motivate his backstab
as motivation for the Yankees. So yeah, screw Soto, They're

(53:44):
better off with at him. I like it. I like
the fire. I like that little petty.

Speaker 1 (53:48):
That pettiness because Aaron Judge is a really nice guy,
right please, so says me.

Speaker 2 (53:53):
I want him. I want him to say f you
to that dude. I think there's the weakest story of
all time leaving another grown man off his yearly remapp
Verduco made a heavy appearance apparently. Can I ask a question,
I can't wait to see rich and famous and leave
Sam off of my year.

Speaker 1 (54:11):
And I really honest here will On the on the
drive back from San Diego, I was going through all
videos and pictures where I was actually gonna post on later,
like of us at our show?

Speaker 2 (54:21):
Is that LaMeer awesome shit? Everyone do that? Why lay
so it's only it is for some people, but it's
self serving spot.

Speaker 1 (54:28):
But it's also like you know, in the future, when
you're an old man, you can look back and be like,
go that was twenty twenty four.

Speaker 2 (54:33):
No sure, anyway, we had a radio show to promote.

Speaker 1 (54:36):
If anyone should it should be used all.

Speaker 2 (54:39):
Right, but story Lebron.

Speaker 7 (54:43):
Lebron celebrated the Big Four to oh this week it's
getting older on Monday, and when asked about the future
of his career on his birthday, he said he could
definitely play at a high level for another five to
seven years, but plans to walk away long before that happens.
He says his feelings on retirement of it to have
intensified over time, so while he still has gas in
the tank, he plans to go out on top. Also

(55:05):
said that when he retires, he's retiring. He's not going
to fall in the footsteps of a Tom Brady or
Michael Jordan. He said, once he steps away, he knows
it's for good.

Speaker 1 (55:13):
Midweek or major, anything Lebron James related is always major.
And I also think it's major that he's admitting that
he's only got a few years left. And yeah, I
do think he could play another five years if he
really wanted to, But his heart's not in it, and
it has to be if you want to compete at
that level. So look, he's he's a phenom. We've had

(55:36):
the privilege of watching him this long.

Speaker 2 (55:38):
Happy birthday to Lebron. I think it's great.

Speaker 1 (55:41):
I think it's mid We all get older, we all retire,
but I get it because it's Lebron.

Speaker 2 (55:46):
It's a big deal.

Speaker 1 (55:47):
I do think he conditions himself in a way where
he probably could play to forty five.

Speaker 2 (55:51):
We've seen the Ichi Rose and the.

Speaker 1 (55:53):
Tom Brady's, and guys play into their forties that really
take care of themselves, you know, in a like an
almost alien type of ways. That remarkable, but you know,
playing until you can't play no more.

Speaker 2 (56:06):
I always I never liked that.

Speaker 1 (56:07):
Look, so I love the fact that Lebron's I going
to leave on his terms when he feels it's right.

Speaker 2 (56:12):
It's pretty remarkable what he's done. Side story, his son
Brys James committed to Arizona. I don't know if you
saw that was news.

Speaker 7 (56:19):
All right, let's see Pro Bowl fan voting results are
in and no surprise, Kansas City Chiefs tight end.

Speaker 2 (56:26):
Travis Kelcey tops the list. I don't know if you
saw this.

Speaker 7 (56:28):
Voting ended on December twenty third results just released. Kelsey
had over two hundred and fifty two thousand entries. Right
behind him lines running back Jamier Games with two fifty
and two hundred fifty thousand and Jayden Daniels with two
hundred and forty two thousand. People are, of course assuming
that his famous girlfriend had something to do with him
creeping up as at the top of the list, but

(56:49):
he did come in third back in twenty twenty two,
so who knows, but it might after his less than
stellar season. People are questioning the motivation behind it. Pro Bowl,
February second, mid Week or Major everything bad.

Speaker 1 (56:59):
It's every the game, the way it's selected his season.
You know, he might get the last laugh and all
said and done, they might win again and do something
that has never been done in the NFL with a
three peat.

Speaker 2 (57:14):
But we all know why he's there. He's just a
super popular player who's premier.

Speaker 1 (57:19):
Gibbs Dayton dua lipa, But Rihanna, what was going on here?
He's number two? That that's that to me is a
little shocking, but it's it's a mid story. The Pro
Bowl is so uneventful. It's, if anything, now, it's more
of just a bragging right when a guy retires, Right,
you could say, oh, look, he's a four time Pro bowler.
The game itself is almost a joke. Now, it's a

(57:40):
flight football game. I get it, but it's so.

Speaker 2 (57:44):
Right real quick.

Speaker 7 (57:45):
Sticking with the Kelsey's, they did announce their first guest
of the new year.

Speaker 2 (57:49):
This is major. This to my opinion, Uh.

Speaker 7 (57:52):
Caitlyn Clark will be appearing on the episode that drops
this Thursday.

Speaker 2 (57:55):
What do you guys think about that? The weaker major agreed?
I think very major. Caitlin Clark biggest name in sports,
one of the biggest name, biggest name in basketball for sure.

Speaker 1 (58:07):
Yeah. I don't want to talk about other podcasts. Let's
talk about our podcast, all right? How about that, Mike,
I wanna, I wanna Will Clark on our show? You
no no Io, Sam's gonna boo Jack Clark. Former Saint
Louis Cardinal. I want to squeeze one more in just
because it's funny.

Speaker 7 (58:24):
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones had a pretty miserable Sunday, not
only losing to the Eagles, his Cowboys losing to the
I mean it didn't come down to like really five
plays though, according to Michael Park, but also getting horribly
heckled by Eagles fans the entire game. Jones, of course
watching from his sweet high above all the fans, but
videos show a bunch of rambunctious Eagles fans.

Speaker 2 (58:46):
We know how Philly people are just yelling and.

Speaker 7 (58:48):
Braiding at him the entire game, and he couldn't escape it.
Uh So midweek er major on that.

Speaker 2 (58:55):
Uh I think it's it's major because, I mean, he
hears this all the time, but his team stinks. It
really does. The expectations just they're so high for Dallas
and he's so old that they got to win now
or never, right, What is he one hundred and eighty
two years old? Is he eighty two or one hundred

(59:15):
and eighty? I think might be one eighty. I split
the difference. It might be one. So of course he
hears it. To be in that situation and to really
hear his team getting dumped on by Eagles fans, that's
gotta be tough at that age especially.

Speaker 1 (59:27):
I have very little sympathy for Jerry Jones in the
fact that he's a billionaire that owns a football team
and lived out his dream and he's won super Bowls.
It's just been an old I just wonder, if you're
a Cowboys fan, is there a sentiment that in his
lifetime you could turn it around and compete, Because I
think where the Cowboys are right now, they're not I
don't think they're like a move away. I think they're

(59:47):
they're almost in football purgatory, you know, where like you're
not bad enough to get a revamp, but you're not
good enough to be missing like a piece, right that,
Like that's the worst place for the Cowboys to be.
Football purgatory, and that's where.

Speaker 12 (01:00:00):
They're at just a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:00:02):
Guys, I'm sorry, Jerry. There's a guy I follow on
social media. He's kind I'm a fight fan, and he
does like a fight podcast. It's not better than our show,
but I got to give him props. Two tone Superstar,
two tone superstar, Right, I do lift some of his
expressions when he goes, oh, it's getting musty in here.

(01:00:23):
He always says it's getting musty.

Speaker 1 (01:00:24):
Right, I've seen this guy and he goes, oh, he'll
say something like he'll diss something like that's a weak
shirt you got on. But I say that respectfully. He
says respectfully all the time. He's one of those guys
really funny breaks down fights. He did a video or
a TikTok about how he went to Planet Fitness. A

(01:00:45):
lot of people hitting the gym today, right because the
first of the month resolutions for the next two weeks.
You can see a lot of people with big dreams,
a lot of fitness. I guess his TikTok videos aren't paying.
Oh oh, I say that respectfully. Well, and he he
said that he got kicked down for very odd reason.

Speaker 2 (01:01:03):
Take a listen.

Speaker 10 (01:01:04):
Planet Fitness, y'all.

Speaker 9 (01:01:08):
Some bas bro told me that you cannot wear crocs.
You can't wear crocs on the gym floor in Planet Fitness,
the same Planet Fitness that serves delicious hungry Howie's pizza
after workouts. The same Planet Fitness that doesn't allow you

(01:01:30):
to slam weights, the same Planet Fitness where all the
equipment is low key mean. Y'all got to get it together.
This is where y'all draw the line at y'all.

Speaker 10 (01:01:41):
Draw the line on crocs. My crocs was in sports mode.

Speaker 1 (01:01:46):
They literally had a molde called sports Molde.

Speaker 10 (01:01:50):
I'm in here training for a fight.

Speaker 9 (01:01:53):
I'm training for a squabble twenty twenty six with border
Waters TVV the Boxing Voice, and y'all wouldn't let.

Speaker 10 (01:01:59):
Me get on workout. That's musty, that's discussion.

Speaker 2 (01:02:03):
That's musty energy from Planet Fitness. But it does pose
the question. We see a lot of broccoli heads, a
lot of the outpacka boys, you know, the younger guys
wearing crocs at the gym. I say, this is a
no no anytime. I think it's fine.

Speaker 1 (01:02:16):
But what do you think if it's in sports mode
that means it has a little strap on the heel,
a little stool boy. I say, if you're not if
you're not doing cardio on a treadmill, or you're not
move moving around in the cardio section, if you're just
on the bench press or you're doing dead lifts, are
on a peaceful equipment.

Speaker 2 (01:02:32):
Like if you're wearing crocs at the gym, you're not
working that hard, you don't.

Speaker 5 (01:02:35):
Yeah, I applaud this right. You know, if you're just
doing weights, rich is right. You can have you after slippers.
Look anyway you get for me, period.

Speaker 7 (01:02:47):
Three year olds, Crocs never any situation, how do you bench.

Speaker 2 (01:02:52):
Who's who's who's putting? Who's wearing special shoes to do?

Speaker 1 (01:02:56):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:02:57):
The PEC deck or ORLA machine. They don't hold on
your feet very well. They're not good to wear. You
need that little clog buckle in the Benny lower body
requires flat shoes.

Speaker 10 (01:03:06):
You know what.

Speaker 2 (01:03:06):
They are not working legs.

Speaker 1 (01:03:08):
Let's be honest, but let's get your feedback at Covino Ridges,
at sports radio.

Speaker 2 (01:03:14):
Baby, see you in the Promised Land, you b