April 8, 2024 • 42 mins
Covino & Rich are in for the great Dan Patrick! They talk "eclipse nerds," and jump into a debate over Caitlin Clark's future. Are we really going to watch her in the NBA, or was it just lightning in a bottle? The guys take calls from all over the country. Plus, the fellas biggest takeaways from WrestleMania 40, where production value was at an all-time high!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
What a treat little comed on Rich and for DP today,
Thank you Dan Patrick.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Treat for you. Everybody else is.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Like, what, No, we're gonna have fun today?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
What?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
No way, I have a lot of fun. There's a
lot to get to live from the Mercedes Benz Studio.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Day one of the Dan Patrick Hatrick, the boss says, hey,
you want to fill in for DP.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
How could we say no?
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Offer you can't refuse so we're here. No way, Absolutely,
we'll fill in, fill in, Frank. Normally we're on every
day Monday through Friday out here on the West two
to four pm. That's five three four five, five to
seven on the east. Like your parents, I'm joking, I
(00:52):
know three hours no matter how long we live out here,
though my parents will never know it's a three hour difference. Ever,
no one in my family will ever get that. In fact,
what time is it out there? Three hours earlier than you.
We're from the East coast out here in La in
for DP. I'm Steve Cavino, that is Rich Davis. I
hope you had a great weekend South Carolina sort of weekend.
(01:14):
Hope all your team's won. Hope you enjoyed your wrestle
Mania some nice weather.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I have wrestled Mania observations because I bet you I.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Grew up because you love cheesy things. I'm just kidding,
just kidding again.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I did watch it. I watched some of it.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
I'll save my observations, Okay, I just don't want to
seem like the guy that hates everything today.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I have plenty of observations.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I was a kid that grew up a little whole
Cominiac brother, and then you know, I discovered women in life. Happened,
and you know, I got off a wrestling I'm poking
around again the.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Last couple of years.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
It makes sense you had a little boy and a
little girl there at that age.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
So I have some observations. WrestleMania forty over the weekend
in Philly. Uh, we're gonna talk about tonight one shining moment,
the best montage in all sports.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Like I said, I look forward to that. I'm trying
not to be the guy that hates every chase. Come on,
speaking of cheese, that song stinks. I like montages, but
that song stinks.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Even the version.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Ah well, I know it's like disrespectful to say any
bit about Luther.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
The song is kind of lame. The bone is tipped.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
And there you don't ever do that again.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
We'll get to that.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
And I think there is one thing we could get
to maybe later in the.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Show, eclips e clip.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Can you know what I agree on one thing, and
that's if you're an a CLIPS person, you're cut from.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
A certain cloth and that's not the same cloth as me.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Well, i'll tell you what I'm excited about the big
eclipse today. It's affecting sports schedules. I think they changed
the Yankees time today because of all the hype around it.
But I don't have the proper sunglasses. You do need
proper sunglasses, Yeah, you need you need uh, you need
some Oakley's to put on old school nineties oak LEAs
(03:02):
just in case. Today's the big day. So be careful,
don't burn your corneus or whatever happens.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Just be careful.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Well, all that a lot of fun, keep your retina intact.
But I want to start the show with a question
for everyone in the room. And by the way, Danny
G Superpriduce, what's up, Danny J.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
What's up? Happy Monday morning.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Happy Monday On the phones eight, seven, seven ninety nine
out Fox. Of course, always a pleasure to see Joel
on the ones and twes. Good morning Joel, great to
see you always, and of course everybody in hanging.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Out on the Dan Patrick Show.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
All right, let me start with this and see where
we feel, see where we fall on this one.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
The true test is, now, what the hell is he talking?
Hate tests?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I have to take out my number two pencil scantron,
cheets already giving out tests. There was a kid I
used to sit next to truth be told I would
cheat off on once in a while, I mean you
had to.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
He got wind of this, Danny G. And you know
what he would do.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
He would do all the work, not fill out a
scantron until the very end of class, and then be
like ce A, B C.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
And I'm like, yo, what a jerk?
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Just so just so I couldn't once in all peek
over back, Yo, what you got.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
For number eight? Yeah? How dare he not let you
cheat for me?
Speaker 4 (04:21):
That was the biggest difference in high school and college,
Danny G. The guy in college wouldn't let me cheat,
and I was like you crazy?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
And high school be like, yo, what you get for
number nine? If you could see, And then I realized, Man,
I'm gonna have to try it. I guess.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
You're like the a yar out of Scantron's yea. So
here's the true test. Break out your number two pencil,
your t I eighty three. Will we care about Caitlin Clark?
Moving forward, let me explain. There's so many things in
life that you have pure excitement about, pure joy, things
(05:03):
that you gotta see, things you gotta watch, things you
gotta listen to, and then something happens, life kicks in.
You know, the excitement wears off, and then it just
becomes casually the background and part of your life.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
My example would be like when you're dating somebody new
and you're having freaky deeky time every time you see them,
but eventually it sort of weans off and it's not
as frequent as it used to be, or as freaky
or as freaky. I wrote down the first thing I
wrote down. We're on the same page. I wrote down,
shave legs, not me. Witmen, when you start dating someone,
(05:44):
you only do your arms only in the beginning of
a relationship.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Is a woman usually concerned about every single time she
sees the guy she's going on a date with Is
she shaving her legs, manicure, pedicure, makeup's done, perfect, everything,
Like every time you see that person, and then what
happens Eventually.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Eventually you pick her up. She has a mustache.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, reality sets in, like, oh my god, reality sets in.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Happens all the time in so many aspects of life.
Danny g.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Before the show, you were saying, sort of like that
Cinderella team in marsh Madness, where at first it's fun
to root for them, you really invested, and you.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
Like, eh, yeah, everybody wants that big Cinderella team. Well
that little Cinderella team to go big and go far
deep into the tournament. But then the ratings on TV
stink once that little team is far into the tournament.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Right at the end of the day, they say, you
want that, but proof is in the ratings.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Not anyone cares at at that point. You know what
it's like too.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
It's like that new little salad place or something that
opens up in your neighborhood by the office or whatever,
and all of a sudden, you get on this kick
and you're like yo, man, and you go there for
like a month straight and all of a sudden, you
just stop going.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
You forgot all about it.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
It's the it's the true test. I can give analogies
all day. I won't, I'll.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Spare you, but I think I know what you're saying.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Everybody's all excited about Caitlin Clark and college basketball, but
when she hits the WNBA, what's gonna happen?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Then that's the real test. That's the true test. The
same way again, I'll break out another analogy.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Morning radio.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
That's the aura we live in radio and broadcasting. Think
about your job. There's things that the new guy or
a new girl do in the beginning, and it's sort
of stops.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Denny goes.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Think of every morning show early on, everyone's two hours
before the show starts, prepping, doing their notes, pulling clips,
doing everything. And then a couple months into a show,
there's always one guy or girl on the show that's
showing up right before, right before the show starts.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
I mean, get comfortable. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
So the true test is now the kitling Clark has
glamored the world, and I'm not taking anything away from her.
I watched I loved it. I thought it was a
great run. Truthfully, rich nobody can nobody can.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
I know.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
There was a lot of speculation on the haters and everything.
It's like, does it really matter. You can't take anything
away from what she did for women's sports, for college
basketball had us tuning in. I never tuned in for
women's college sports or basketball. I should say so gift
because I'm sex sister disinterested. I just never really cared
about women's college basketball. Guess what she brought you in.
(08:28):
I was watching all the time. Now your question is
will I keep on keeping on?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
And by the way, I was surprised that some of
that hate that you speak of came from other women.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
And women are so big on my wife and her friends.
I always hear.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
People say, like, you know, women support women want to
support other women. You know, I like Tarasi and some
of these old school women basketball players are the ones
like trying to kick kickling.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
The clock down a little bit. What is last weekend?
Speaker 4 (08:54):
I mean, I saw Portnoy sticking up for her, But
I saw Lebron, you know, big time play saying hey,
stay away from the haters.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Can't be hating on Kaitlyn Clark did amazing things. I
should know good. But that's the true test.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
I ask you, and it's and it has nothing to
do with negativity. I'm not a skeptic. I'm actually a
pretty positive guy. I just wonder does the love continue,
does the does the romance continue? Or do we quote
stop shaving our legs? Meaning when she gets drafted by
the Indiana Fever. Let me ask you on a Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Night, Rich's immune to the Fever? On a Tuesday night?
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Are you gonna be watching Kitlyn Clark in the WNBA
playing for the Indiana Fever when the competition levels different.
She's not gonna be putting up forty points a game,
knocking down three after three after three. It's gonna be
a different game. And she has elevated women's basketball, I
think to a level now where mission accomplished, intrigue is
(09:58):
there more in the game has grow? But I just
wonder Katelyn Clark herself. Is she going to be part
of any conversation we have a year from now?
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Okay, think about it.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Eight seven seven ninety nine, OUs fox to prove your point,
rich fourteen point two million, I believe tuned in most.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Ever, Oh, let me give you another one. I saw
Carolina with the win. They pulled away at the end.
It was close at one point, man, it was it
was I mean expected again undefeated. Props to South Carolina.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
I really think that everybody who was tuning in did
want to see that that upset, that surprise, like, oh wow,
and she did it, because that would have really been
a great story.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Like even my fourteen year old daughter was asking me
about it. That's a nice thing. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Now, of course was familiar with some of the bigger
names in the tournament. I was like, wow, and my
daughter doesn't even care about sports that much, like at all,
so for her to be bringing it up, it's like, damn,
that's awesome. But does it stop here? I think the
interest will still be there because you're trying to see
(11:08):
how she translates.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
You know, there's a lot of talk of that.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
A lot of the women in the WNBA saying, Hey,
all these hot shots, all these stars in college, we're
excited for what you're doing, but now bring it to
the WNBA and let's see what you got. Same way
men get excited about these young hot shot college stars
playing in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Remember how excited you were watching. I just think that,
and again I could be way wrong on this.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
I think that some of these hot shot college women
like the Caitlin Clarks of the world could have impact.
I think they could compete a lot sooner than some
of these men. I could be way wrong. I don't
think you're wrong. I mean I could be. I just wonder,
like I said, the true is.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
But I'll be tuning in. I really will be. But
it goes. It still goes back to your point, though, Rich,
for how long?
Speaker 5 (12:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
For how long is I'll give you another one. You
and I anything just like bar. You love that new
bar in town. When it opens up, you're there every weekend.
Eventually you stop going as often as you did in
the beginning. It could be anything in life. So I
think I'll definitely check it out to see how she
translates into w NBA. But if I'll be tuning in
every week. There's a coffee shop out here in La
(12:29):
Danny g Ever, go to Phil's Coffee.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
You were all about it with the Z right Phills,
with the Z Dude. It's so good.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
They got these little like a moheedo coffee. They got
all this cool stuff. There was like a two month
period of my life where.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
I'm like I discovered Phills fil f Starbucks F coffee Bean.
I was like, Phils, I love this guy, my favorite
Phil other than Negro or Michelson. Hey, Rich, where are
you going filth?
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Rich was all about it. Like two months later, I
was like, Yeah, back to Starbucks. I'm just wondering, are
we gonna be back to Starbucks? We're gonna get on kicks.
It's just that's human nature Michael Jackson style. Let me
give you an human nature.
Speaker 7 (13:09):
Man.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
You get on these kicks, it's exciting, But then you
go back to your normal routine and.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
What it's like, Danny, It's like my peloton. It's like
it's like my Orange Theory days. It's like my CrossFit adventures.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Every you don't tell me.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
It's like every six months there would be something new that,
uh there.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Was I used to have again. It's all part of
routine too. Your routine changes. It could be anything. Your
interest changes, your patterns change I used to go. Your
living situation might change, your schedule might change.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
It could be anything.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
For me.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
This is the story of the peanut buttery. What's the
peanut buttery? You say, the lame name of an awesome smoothie.
I used to get every day, and it was such
a part of my life. Every day I'd go to
Whole Foods because it was part of my routine. I
go in there, Hey, can I get a peanut buttery.
People knew my name, people knew.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
What I wanted.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Hey, you want the usual? Yeah, hook it up, the
peanut buttery, the hell us the scuba as it is.
It's like some protein smoothie at home Foods.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Sounds good. And then, out of nowhere, one day I
stopped going. I don't know what it was.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Schedule change again, I forgot, got hit on the head.
I don't know what happened. And then my daughter brought
it up out of nowhere. She's like, hey, Dad, remember
we used to get the Kariaki ball and you'd get
that smoothie all the time.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
And I'm like, you know what, I haven't gotten.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
That smoothie in years. When did I fall out of
the routine. I don't know. The thing is, I've gone
on from kick after kick after kick from that smoothie, and.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
We all do.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
It's whatever shiny new things in the area, whatever new
person is in the office. Hey, remember when you got
that new receptionist. Everyone was talking.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
About her she's old hat now because you went on
to something different.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
So who's old hat? Brett Farms, who's old hat? He
does have a Yeah. Now everybody's all about Caitlin Clark.
She's the new fun thing to talk about. But much
like the sports cycle, it's on to the neck. There's
gonna be another story, and of course more people will
be tuning into the WNBA.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
The question is for how long?
Speaker 4 (15:14):
And I guess that depends on how much she's lighting
it up and how I don't know how much of
a fan we really are.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
It's yet to be seen. I think I'll be tuning in. Rich.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
I don't tune into the WNBA. Let's make it clear,
for no real reason. I don't want people to make
assumptions because there is none. I just don't. But I'll
tune in when she's playing for Indiana, the Indiana Fever
number one draft pick, to see how it translates, see
how it works, to see the excitement, and then from
there I think we all see, Well, how long are
(15:45):
we tuning in?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Matt in Minnesota, hit us up, Good morning CNR. Nice
to heat in for Dan Patrick. She's the new kick,
is my point, he said, giving on Rich. I genuinely
hope this is the start of America being interested in
women's basketball be awesome at a high level. It's fun
to watch with my fourteen year old angel rees Kaitlin Clark.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
A lot of these.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Women could bring rivalries that we don't already have in
the WA.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
I think it's on the WNBA now and on basketball
to create these storylines that we care about. Kaitlyn Clark
did her job, meaning she set it up. She set
it up right now for the world to care. How
do they build these storylines? How do they build these rivalries?
How does the league get us to care? How do
they build these matchups? How do they market this? All
(16:30):
of these things matter because she pulled us in, we
took debate. We're here. It all matters. What happens with
Indiana Fever. I got another I got another example for you,
buddy boy.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Sure, I'd say.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Oh, six months ago or so, could we know? And
I got an email a confirmation that we were in.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Danny. We got access to see Messy play against LAFC.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
I thought you were gonna say the Magic Castle.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
I've been there one time. Magic Castle is fun.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
If anyone's ever been out here, in La It's like
a It's like a dinner theater where they have magicians.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Invite only invite only. Yeah, been there, cool like it.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
But we went to go see Lionel Messi play against LAFC.
Covino was taken aback by how cool the crowd was.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
What did they cheer the whole time? Dolly, Dolly, black
and gold, Dolly black and gold, black and go the
whole time they're cheering. This place is insane.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Cavino's like bro lfc is shocking football at the same
time you were watching Ted Lasso. This was soccer boy
for a minute. I haven't heard you talk about it
since I was prisoner of the moment?
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Is that what we all are?
Speaker 4 (17:59):
You got to get some hardcore residual WNBA fans out
of this. There has to be some. There's more than
they started with thanks to Kaitlin Clark. There's no question.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
I want to be positive. I don't want to sound
like a negative jerk.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
I'm just saying, how do they That's that's I guess
you would say part two the question, how do they?
I don't think you're a negative jerk for questioning human nature?
How do they keep the momentum is what I'm saying.
It's like, it's like, you know those couples you meet
and they're like, we've been married twenty years, have we
still make love four times a week? You're like, what,
what is your secret?
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Like?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
What there are people you meet where You're like, I mean,
you know, go to the gym five days a week
my whole life. It's like, you don't go through stuff,
you don't go through.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Ups and downs. Huh. We need to figure out They.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Got to build these rivalries too, man, because if you're
not tuning in and you're tuning for Kaitlyn Clark, what
difference is it to you that she's up against filling
the blank.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I don't want to, uh Covino. I don't want to
make it seem like this is the same thing. But
I did see the analogy of this upstart league that
was at times question.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Will it make it?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
That was the NBA, And then they got these two
people you might have heard of them, Magic Johnson and
Larry Bird, and that rivalry took the NBA to a
new level.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
And then you know the base and the bases the trip.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Welcome in, Michael Jordan, and welcome in the other stars
and the rest is history.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
I mean that would be the dream of the w
NBA and Kate when Clark alone creates some fun rivalry.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Yeah, of course Rich isn't naysaying Rich isn't rooting against Rich,
isn't hating in any way. He's saying, this is the
true test. How many people really will tune into the
w NBA. Or was it just a phase? Was it
just a kick?
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Was it just prisoner of the moment? And Katelyn Clark's
on the Indiana fever scoring fifteen game?
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Was it lightning in the bottles that were you're looking for?
Was it was it just a quick moment in time
where we loved it? Is it insanity ish or is
it more permanence. If it's permanence, that would be great
for women's sports. I just wonder where people's heads are at.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
We'll take your feedback. We'd love to hear from you.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Eight seven, seven, nine to nine on Fox Covino and
rich In for the Great Dan Patrick right here on
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Speaker 1 (20:14):
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Speaker 2 (20:25):
Hey, we're Cavino and Rich Fox Sports Radio every day
five to seven pm Eastern.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
But here's the thing. We never have enough time to
get to everything we want to get.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
To and that's why we have a brand new podcast
called over Promised. You see, we're having so much fun
in our two hour show. We never get to everything, honestly,
because this guy is over promising things we never have
time for.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Yeah, you blubber list lame in me. Well, you know
what it's called over promise. You should be good at
it because you've been over promising women for years.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Well, it's a Cavino and Rich after show, and we
want you to be a part of it. We're gonna
be talking sports, of course, but we're also gonna talk
life relationships, and if Rich and I are arguing about
something or we didn't have enough time, it will continue
on our after show called over Promised.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Well, if you don't get enough Covino and Rich, make
sure you check out over Promised and also Uncensored, by
the way, so maybe we'll go at it even a
little harder. It's gonna be the best after show podcast
of all time.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
There you go over Promising and remember you could see
it on YouTube, but definitely join us. Listen to over
Promised with Covino and Rich on the iHeartRadio app, Apple
Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Covino and Rich
in for Dan Patrick, Joel on the Ones and twos.
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Rich Welcome to our show and we're talking about the
(22:01):
true test right now.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Not to take anything away.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
What we watched in women's college basketball was amazing, great
game again, congrats to South Carolina undefeated season eighty seven
to seventy five over Iowa and Caitlin Clark was magic,
as you keep saying, Rich, magic in a bottle.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
I know, like it's lightning, dude. Oh lighting, That's what
I met?
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Or was it?
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Does it have staying power. It's yet to be seen.
So we're just posing the question, not rooting against by
any means. But when all these young stars, especially Caitlin Clark,
hits the WNBA, do we now follow over getting feedback?
People are hoping So.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
I mean, listen, there were things that were new that
you didn't know if they were going to catch on
or get the momentum it needed.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
I remember in the.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Beginning days of mixed martial arts, Dana White's pushing this
and everyone's like, you mean, like fighting in an octagon?
Speaker 3 (22:58):
I don't know about that.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
I remember Joe Rogan being on talk shows. There's very
famous viral clips.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
He's on Conan for example, and everybody's sort of laughing.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Like, hey, so you're really into this stuff. He's like, yeah,
I think it's gonna take off.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Are you sure about that?
Speaker 4 (23:14):
You have tussling on the ring, Well, yeah, this no
no guy versus a jiu jitsu guy.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
But the intrigue was definitely there for sure. It had
staying power, lasting power. Look, we all get the game
of basketball. Are they gonna be able to build these rivalries?
And Keith the momentum going rocket dog in Minnesota says,
I genuinely hope it is the start of America being
interested in women's basketball at a high level. It was
fun to watch my fourteen year old hope angel Rees.
(23:41):
Can'tlin Clark bring the rivalry into the WNBA. Look, unfortunately,
part of that rivalry is we do kind of want
them to hate each other in a way, and they
already made it clear that they don't.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
But they still had us pulled in.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Even that game had over thirteen million people sixteen at
his peak, yesterday's game fourteen point two million. They definitely
have the momentum heading into next year's w NBA season
as a matter of how long will they keep us?
Speaker 2 (24:09):
It's a new restaurant in town. Does an hour wait
every night? Then eventu you're like, oh, I could get
a table, and then eventually it's like, is this this
restaurant gonna make it? I hope for the sake of
women's sports in Kaitlin Clark that people do care about
the Indiana fever. I just wonder is it magic and
(24:31):
a bottle lightning in a bottle that we just all
got wrapped up the good?
Speaker 3 (24:35):
For good reason?
Speaker 4 (24:35):
People today, more than ever before, short attention spans like
we could be all about one thing and then the
next new cycle hits and we completely forgot about what
we were excited about just weeks ago. Like Danny j
he came in here, he was like, yeah, who's that
football league? Everybody here was so excited.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
He can't even remember what league it was, but he's
saying everybody.
Speaker 8 (25:00):
I was like, XFL, No, the UFL, the USFL, no, no, no,
the player control, the fan controlled football.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
No no, no, no, no, I got it.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
I got it. Kevin Wirrett helped me.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
Remember the AAF, the Alliance of American Football.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
So everybody remember what you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Everybody's excited about it, and then what fast forward, the
next new cycle hit, something else happened.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
By the next weekend, nobody was talking about it. Again.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
That's just how we are. So it's on them, Cantlin Clark,
all these young stars. They did their job. They did
their job. It's about the league and how they market
this moving forward. Yeah, I mean, do you remember every
Sunday night, what do we watch?
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Walking Dead? Still on the spinoffs?
Speaker 2 (25:50):
But the care the way you did again, it goes
back to the Shavir Legs analogy. The beginning of every relationship.
A woman shows up for every date, manicure, pedicure, shave
their own body, ready to roll. You know, you date
someone for a while, then you end up just snuggling
(26:10):
watching Netflix.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Well, to answer your original question, though, the true test,
will I tune in? And I'm a great example because
I was never tuning in before. Yes, the answer is yes.
But it's a matter of what they do from there.
It's like you said, that new restaurant. When you go
to that new restaurant, what do they do to bring
it back?
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Yeah? Did they give you a free dessert? You know?
You know, and keep it interesting? You know what they
setting They make you feel special.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Like I said, it's on the league at that point,
because they got us in the establishment, They got us
in the building. Are they gonna make me feel special?
Are they gonna keep me pumped up? Are they gonna
sell these matchups? Something exciting gonna happen. It's a lot
on the players, but more on how they market this
moving forward. How do they get the fans in? How
did they get you to the game, How do they
keep you there? How did they get you that's it going?
(26:58):
How do they get you to come back to the restaurant.
Think about it. The restaurants I go back to, it's
because the owner came out, made me feel special.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
They got me in the door. Why don't you go
back because you got bad service? Well, they did nothing
special to keep you.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Exactly or that nothing better than you feeling special about
something like you're invested, like you're part of it.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
If the w NBA is able to capture the.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Magic in the bottle that you keep saying, they're able
to capture this lightning, take it from the college, the
college scene, and bring it to the professional scene, then bam,
then they've done it.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Let's go to who's that Chad? Yeah, Shad, what's up?
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Shad at Iowa? You're on the show? Convin On Rich
Infan Dan Patrick. Rich wanted it to be Shad, what's up?
Speaker 7 (27:51):
Hey? Here's the thing, I live in Iowa. Katelyn Clark
is huge.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (27:57):
The problem is when they get into the WNBA, it's
going to be hard for people to find where to
watch the games, Unlike the tournament, whereas I'm the CBS, NBC,
all the big networks. Once it hits that WNBA, the
time slots are jacked up, where you can try to
find the games as hard. And I think that's going
(28:20):
to be the big problem. They're going to have to
move it to you know what I'm saying. They're going
to have to give it that big time feel.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Yeah, that's a great point. No one wants to like
tune in. You got all this excitement for college basketball.
You don't want to tune into some low budget looking
production just to see, you know. And you got to
figure the first games will be nationally televised for you
to watch. At least that's what you think, right, They'll
make a big deal out of it, and then it's
(28:48):
a matter of how many people tune in. And I
think it starts, unfortunately too, with a lot of women.
Like we've always said, women need to support other women.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
Here, all the.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
People excited about it, now keep that excitement. Yeah, I
think the guys are doing their job. Yeah, you got
us in, Yeah, got us in the building.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
You know.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Let me add one more thing to this. I think
that was a good point there for anyone saying she
needed to win. It would have a championship, it would
have hell, But you can't compare her to other elite
athletes who have won championships because she really had a
two year window.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
She played in college for you know, four years.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
But and I like when she's like, I can't be
the fined on one game, I mean you can't.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
I get that.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Keep in mind Covino when she got to Iowa. Just
looking back, I can't say that I knew this. I
mean I wasn't watching Iowa women's basketball four years ago.
But that program, from what I've read up on and now,
was Garbagia.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
She took it to the next level.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
So the last two years were the years where she
was so good and they built it enough where they
could compete. She had two years to win one, and
she did it. Athletes, when they're pro, what do they
have five, ten, fifteen years to win something? It's not
I don't think it's a knock at her that she
didn't get it done, especially against a team that looked unbeatable,
(30:12):
Like you know, they were unbeatable. You know, when you're
watching any sport and you know the team that your
team is facing is just way better that they have
to make mistakes any any time it looked like Iowa
was in it. Immediately South Carolina's.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Like, nope, nah, it's so down.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Oh it's within it's within five, not that long for
a player. So they're just they were just a better team.
So again, hopefully you enjoyed the weekend. It was all
about the bench obviously, and it's.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
And it's just a true test.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
We shall see, like anything in life, could it keep
your pea brain, goldfish memory attention.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
We're all going to tune in to see the intrigue
of how it translates into WNBA for how much longer
to that It's yet to be seen.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
But yes, the answer is yes, we all passed the
true test. Moving forward. When we were rooting for Indiana, well,
something else that went down this weekend, something else that
I said, you know what, I don't watch it. It's free,
not free.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
But if you watch the Miami Dolphins Kansas City Chiefs
earlier this year, what was the big complaint about that
game on precock.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
I'm not a streaming service.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Every people hate that everyone be watching and complaining about
Netflix went for DP.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
I got nothing bad to say about Peacock. Listen.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
I enjoy the offerings of Peacock, which is another service
I'm spending money on.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
But you know what, that's a worldly living stop complaining.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Stop complaining the way you know it's the future if
you think you could stop it.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
I think a lot of people realize they still had
peacock from that game.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
So, like I said, I was a kid that grew
up a little Hulka maniac. Probably WrestleMania is one through ten.
I knew as much as any little kid about wrestling.
I loved it the same way I love baseball cards
and football and everything I did. I was a little
wrestling fanatic. And then, like I said, life happened. You
(32:25):
discover girls, college life, and then you're like.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
It all happened so sudden, right You hung up your
Hulka maniac headband, Yeah, closed your baseball cardbinder, like I've
been down your Nintendo control.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
I now prioritize ups.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
And you hung up that poster of that first woman
whoever it was at Spencer Gifts at the time.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
I remember Cindy Crawford for me. I remember hul Cogan
becoming Hollywood Hogan.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Sorry Halkster making room for at the Ireland. Loving it
for a couple of years. I'm like, man n wodn
rude borrow And then I was like, eh, that's pretty cool.
All right, I'm a big boy. Now I don't have
time for this.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
Sorry British Bulldogs. I'm making room for the Barbie Twins.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
So I watched last night and Saturday night I watched
WrestleMania forty. I have a few observations and thoughts just
from the production standpoint, everything about it. And have you
watched Mania over the weekend, which I'm sure a lot
of people did, back to back the nights of seventy
plus thousand people in Chile, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
So observations from WrestleMania.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
We'll talk a little NFL as we get closer to
the draft, plus tonight a little one shining moment the
men play tonight, so we'll break it all down. Coming
up your buds, Covin and rich In for Dan Patrick
Life in the Mercedes Benz Studio, Hang Tight.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Be sure to catch the live edition of The Dan
Patrick Show weekdays at nine am Eastern six am Pacific
on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio w.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
App Hey, welcome back.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
Good to be here, always live from Mercedes Benz Studios.
Cavino and rich In for Dan Patrick Live from Mercedes
Benz Studios. Like I said, Joel on the ones and twos.
Always great to see Joel and Danny J. Danny J
is our super producer eight seven seven ninety nine on
Fox Good Morning, Dicky, do you know I'm thinking about it?
You think we'll look back because this is the hope,
(34:30):
right to wrap up our previous conversation about the truth
test as well follow the WNBA. Now, you think we'll
look back like you believe we even had this conversation
like it was even a question, like when you talk about.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Women's rights or women's voting and things like that. I
don't think it's the same thing. But no, I don't
think so. I think it's the same thing.
Speaker 5 (34:53):
IOO.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
I think what I'm saying is you think you'll look
back and feel like odd about you believe we even
debated like pompous men, Like you think we'll give it
a chance now where.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
In the future it might be so matter.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Of fact, like yeah, of course people in And the
reason the women's sports, the reason I answered you that
way is because I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
You really don't. I think we're not gonna watch Wow,
I think you're gonna.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Watch Caitlin Clark's first game for the Indiana Fever there's gotta.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Be a point in time, Rich, where we've been saying
about that. No, you've been saying about not you, the
collective you.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Everyone's been saying that about football soccer since Peley, Like.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Oh, it's gonna go mainstream. We're gonna love it here
in the States.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Around the world, everyone loves soccer. I love Ted Lasso,
I love fictional soccer. I love but but guess what,
I don't watch soccer the World Cup every four years.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
You'll get invested because it's just the it's the thing
to watch with the right people.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
If Messi is not the guy you're not watching.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
Just because you're not watching doesn't mean that other people
in the world aren't tuning in.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
And it's not growing. It's growing, but you're Vegas fault.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
But growing, Rich Davis doesn't do it, then nobody must
do it.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
That's a joke. That's a joke, dude. Just because something's
growing doesn't mean it's huge mass appeal. Well, it's yet
to be seen. It's yet to be seen.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Well will you might look back and like laugh at
ourselves that it was even a question of course we're
tuning in, or you could look back and laughing you like,
can you believe we thought Caitlin Clark was gonna get
us to watch a WNBA.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
We will see you give me one of the other
your feedback at Covino and Rich and we move on.
Because aside from college basketball and by the way, tonight
Purdue Yukon excited.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
We'll talk about it later the bold.
Speaker 4 (36:41):
Aside from that, it was WrestleMania forty and it was
some big buzz about it.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Well, this makes you feel old, right forty, Because if
you're a kid of the eighties, you remember, remember, you
remember the old school WrestleManias. You remember Hault Cogan and
mister t as a little Boyresselmnia one. You remember him
slamming Andre the Giant WrestleMania three in nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
Yeah, who would have thought that would have caught.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Your little childhood memories? Forty years at a ted, we're
at WrestleMania forty. It's like our parents, it's like, did
a masterful job at giving us new storylines and reasons
to care for weeks and years at end.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
And it all started with that rivalry.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
As they say, now it's the Triple H era. Now
our parents grew up probably.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
Thinking, oh, what's this new fangle thing the super Bowl,
the AFL and the NFL.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
What that's something else? And here we are fifty plus
super bowls later, So I get it. Things do build.
But it was cool to watch WrestleMania forty and I
wrote down some observations, and observation number one is how.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
Big this stuff has become.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
Like if you watched a pay per view in the
eighties or no, there wasn't a lot of ads. You
might've had, Oh yea a slim gym, you know, macho
man ad or something. Every every match there's digital ads
on the apron, on the in the in the arena.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
It's ad heavy, which is not bad. I get it.
They're paying the bills.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
When you got seventy two thousand people showing up two
nights in a row, millions tuning in, you better figure
out a.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
Way to market this make some money. But I get it.
It just was a lower budget production back then. The
production value is weak. Sponsors were slim and gym.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
And I get it because if you've been watching wrestling
every year since then. But I'm coming from the place
of it's been a good five to ten years since
I really watched a pay per view. I've noticed that
the entrances when these guys come down to the ring. Yeah,
you want to hit me up with some Cody Rhodes theme,
you know your new wrestling champion. These guys have entrances
(39:04):
that are so elaborate. Now to think back when we
were kids, Like there were only a couple guys in
the old school days that had a theme song. Some
guys would just walked down to the ring like yeah,
but they are singling on.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
Here we go.
Speaker 4 (39:24):
They really milk it too, man, dude, they walk so slow.
I really take in every moment. My number one observation is.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
It used to be like the Hulks or someone It
would take it maybe thirty seconds or so to come
down to the ring. These wrestlers now have a Deontay
Wilder boxing entrance, like a like a twenty minute, dude.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
Twenty minutes, whoa.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Dude, This is like a twenty minute entrance for every
big star that main event, Roman Reigns, the rock seth
freaking Rollins, and Cody Rhads coming out. Each guy took
fifteen minutes to walk down to the ring. It was
a good hour just watching these guys do their entrance.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
Rich was very adamant. Like adamant, Rich was very adamant
that I watched the final event from Saturday night and
I did.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
I'm like, just what to say? The least you were welmed?
I was so whelmed. I didn't not notice what you're saying.
I absolutely did. As far as entertainment, as far as
production value, yeah, I mean it was some cheesiness, like
the lightning that they have, you know, flying into the ring.
I mean, you people are walking down. You weren't underwhelmed
or overwhelmed. You were just whelmed because the theatrics are
(40:43):
so bad. You know, the set of eyes you have
with you is always an indicator on how you feel
about it too, Like was it a great vibe when
you watched?
Speaker 2 (40:53):
Like?
Speaker 4 (40:53):
Are you there with kids that are pumped about it?
Are you there with wrestling fans? I was there with
my girlfriend who was like, I can't believe how fake
this is. I can't believe. My wife and I were fascinated.
It was big heavyweights. You know, it's the rock who's
moving in slow motion. It's rolling Rains who barely moves
(41:13):
it all seth rollins who's not really doing anything. That
acrobatic like I like the young, fast acrobatic sort of
choreography and wrestling. I disagree with you when you are
watching from the lens of someone who's just being very
practical about it.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
Or buzz you can say, or buzz kill. This is
the dumbest thing they've ever seen.
Speaker 4 (41:34):
It looks like little kids playing pretend, because that's exactly
what it is, and that's what I was witnessing.
Speaker 2 (41:41):
I'm like, this is the slowest moving trash. My wife
and I felt that last match, we felt the complete option.
Speaker 3 (41:48):
My wife and I wasn't make you write or me right.
We watched it were like, wow, this is really next level, what.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
A great event, and wrestling is alive and well for
reasons I have to be.
Speaker 3 (41:59):
It's entertaining on a whole new level. It just takes
a particular set of eyes and ears to be interested.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
So hey, hopefully I had a great wrestle mini weekend
and tonight one shining moment the Men's NCAA Championship.
Speaker 3 (42:14):
We'll get to that next right here, can you know?
Richard for Dan Patrick
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
What a treat little comed on Rich and for DP today,
Thank you Dan Patrick.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Treat for you. Everybody else is.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Like, what, No, we're gonna have fun today?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
What?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
No way, I have a lot of fun. There's a
lot to get to live from the Mercedes Benz Studio.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Day one of the Dan Patrick Hatrick, the boss says, hey,
you want to fill in for DP.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
How could we say no?
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Offer you can't refuse so we're here. No way, Absolutely,
we'll fill in, fill in, Frank. Normally we're on every
day Monday through Friday out here on the West two
to four pm. That's five three four five, five to
seven on the east. Like your parents, I'm joking, I
(00:52):
know three hours no matter how long we live out here,
though my parents will never know it's a three hour difference. Ever,
no one in my family will ever get that. In fact,
what time is it out there? Three hours earlier than you.
We're from the East coast out here in La in
for DP. I'm Steve Cavino, that is Rich Davis. I
hope you had a great weekend South Carolina sort of weekend.
(01:14):
Hope all your team's won. Hope you enjoyed your wrestle
Mania some nice weather.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I have wrestled Mania observations because I bet you I.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Grew up because you love cheesy things. I'm just kidding,
just kidding again.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I did watch it. I watched some of it.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
I'll save my observations, Okay, I just don't want to
seem like the guy that hates everything today.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I have plenty of observations.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I was a kid that grew up a little whole
Cominiac brother, and then you know, I discovered women in life. Happened,
and you know, I got off a wrestling I'm poking
around again the.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Last couple of years.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
It makes sense you had a little boy and a
little girl there at that age.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
So I have some observations. WrestleMania forty over the weekend
in Philly. Uh, we're gonna talk about tonight one shining moment,
the best montage in all sports.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Like I said, I look forward to that. I'm trying
not to be the guy that hates every chase. Come on,
speaking of cheese, that song stinks. I like montages, but
that song stinks.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Even the version.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Ah well, I know it's like disrespectful to say any
bit about Luther.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
The song is kind of lame. The bone is tipped.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
And there you don't ever do that again.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
We'll get to that.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
And I think there is one thing we could get
to maybe later in the.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Show, eclips e clip.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Can you know what I agree on one thing, and
that's if you're an a CLIPS person, you're cut from.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
A certain cloth and that's not the same cloth as me.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Well, i'll tell you what I'm excited about the big
eclipse today. It's affecting sports schedules. I think they changed
the Yankees time today because of all the hype around it.
But I don't have the proper sunglasses. You do need
proper sunglasses, Yeah, you need you need uh, you need
some Oakley's to put on old school nineties oak LEAs
(03:02):
just in case. Today's the big day. So be careful,
don't burn your corneus or whatever happens.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Just be careful.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Well, all that a lot of fun, keep your retina intact.
But I want to start the show with a question
for everyone in the room. And by the way, Danny
G Superpriduce, what's up, Danny J.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
What's up? Happy Monday morning.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Happy Monday On the phones eight, seven, seven ninety nine
out Fox. Of course, always a pleasure to see Joel
on the ones and twes. Good morning Joel, great to
see you always, and of course everybody in hanging.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Out on the Dan Patrick Show.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
All right, let me start with this and see where
we feel, see where we fall on this one.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
The true test is, now, what the hell is he talking?
Hate tests?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I have to take out my number two pencil scantron,
cheets already giving out tests. There was a kid I
used to sit next to truth be told I would
cheat off on once in a while, I mean you
had to.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
He got wind of this, Danny G. And you know
what he would do.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
He would do all the work, not fill out a
scantron until the very end of class, and then be
like ce A, B C.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
And I'm like, yo, what a jerk?
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Just so just so I couldn't once in all peek
over back, Yo, what you got.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
For number eight? Yeah? How dare he not let you
cheat for me?
Speaker 4 (04:21):
That was the biggest difference in high school and college,
Danny G. The guy in college wouldn't let me cheat,
and I was like you crazy?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
And high school be like, yo, what you get for
number nine? If you could see, And then I realized, Man,
I'm gonna have to try it. I guess.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
You're like the a yar out of Scantron's yea. So
here's the true test. Break out your number two pencil,
your t I eighty three. Will we care about Caitlin Clark?
Moving forward, let me explain. There's so many things in
life that you have pure excitement about, pure joy, things
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that you gotta see, things you gotta watch, things you
gotta listen to, and then something happens, life kicks in.
You know, the excitement wears off, and then it just
becomes casually the background and part of your life.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
My example would be like when you're dating somebody new
and you're having freaky deeky time every time you see them,
but eventually it sort of weans off and it's not
as frequent as it used to be, or as freaky
or as freaky. I wrote down the first thing I
wrote down. We're on the same page. I wrote down,
shave legs, not me. Witmen, when you start dating someone,
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you only do your arms only in the beginning of
a relationship.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Is a woman usually concerned about every single time she
sees the guy she's going on a date with Is
she shaving her legs, manicure, pedicure, makeup's done, perfect, everything,
Like every time you see that person, and then what
happens Eventually.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Eventually you pick her up. She has a mustache.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, reality sets in, like, oh my god, reality sets in.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Happens all the time in so many aspects of life.
Danny g.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Before the show, you were saying, sort of like that
Cinderella team in marsh Madness, where at first it's fun
to root for them, you really invested, and you.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
Like, eh, yeah, everybody wants that big Cinderella team. Well
that little Cinderella team to go big and go far
deep into the tournament. But then the ratings on TV
stink once that little team is far into the tournament.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Right at the end of the day, they say, you
want that, but proof is in the ratings.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Not anyone cares at at that point. You know what
it's like too.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
It's like that new little salad place or something that
opens up in your neighborhood by the office or whatever,
and all of a sudden, you get on this kick
and you're like yo, man, and you go there for
like a month straight and all of a sudden, you
just stop going.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
You forgot all about it.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
It's the it's the true test. I can give analogies
all day. I won't, I'll.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Spare you, but I think I know what you're saying.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Everybody's all excited about Caitlin Clark and college basketball, but
when she hits the WNBA, what's gonna happen?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Then that's the real test. That's the true test. The
same way again, I'll break out another analogy.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Morning radio.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
That's the aura we live in radio and broadcasting. Think
about your job. There's things that the new guy or
a new girl do in the beginning, and it's sort
of stops.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Denny goes.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Think of every morning show early on, everyone's two hours
before the show starts, prepping, doing their notes, pulling clips,
doing everything. And then a couple months into a show,
there's always one guy or girl on the show that's
showing up right before, right before the show starts.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
I mean, get comfortable. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
So the true test is now the kitling Clark has
glamored the world, and I'm not taking anything away from her.
I watched I loved it. I thought it was a
great run. Truthfully, rich nobody can nobody can.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
I know.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
There was a lot of speculation on the haters and everything.
It's like, does it really matter. You can't take anything
away from what she did for women's sports, for college
basketball had us tuning in. I never tuned in for
women's college sports or basketball. I should say so gift
because I'm sex sister disinterested. I just never really cared
about women's college basketball. Guess what she brought you in.
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I was watching all the time. Now your question is
will I keep on keeping on?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
And by the way, I was surprised that some of
that hate that you speak of came from other women.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
And women are so big on my wife and her friends.
I always hear.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
People say, like, you know, women support women want to
support other women. You know, I like Tarasi and some
of these old school women basketball players are the ones
like trying to kick kickling.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
The clock down a little bit. What is last weekend?
Speaker 4 (08:54):
I mean, I saw Portnoy sticking up for her, But
I saw Lebron, you know, big time play saying hey,
stay away from the haters.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Can't be hating on Kaitlyn Clark did amazing things. I
should know good. But that's the true test.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
I ask you, and it's and it has nothing to
do with negativity. I'm not a skeptic. I'm actually a
pretty positive guy. I just wonder does the love continue,
does the does the romance continue? Or do we quote
stop shaving our legs? Meaning when she gets drafted by
the Indiana Fever. Let me ask you on a Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Night, Rich's immune to the Fever? On a Tuesday night?
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Are you gonna be watching Kitlyn Clark in the WNBA
playing for the Indiana Fever when the competition levels different.
She's not gonna be putting up forty points a game,
knocking down three after three after three. It's gonna be
a different game. And she has elevated women's basketball, I
think to a level now where mission accomplished, intrigue is
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there more in the game has grow? But I just
wonder Katelyn Clark herself. Is she going to be part
of any conversation we have a year from now?
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Okay, think about it.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Eight seven seven ninety nine, OUs fox to prove your point,
rich fourteen point two million, I believe tuned in most.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Ever, Oh, let me give you another one. I saw
Carolina with the win. They pulled away at the end.
It was close at one point, man, it was it
was I mean expected again undefeated. Props to South Carolina.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
I really think that everybody who was tuning in did
want to see that that upset, that surprise, like, oh wow,
and she did it, because that would have really been
a great story.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Like even my fourteen year old daughter was asking me
about it. That's a nice thing. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Now, of course was familiar with some of the bigger
names in the tournament. I was like, wow, and my
daughter doesn't even care about sports that much, like at all,
so for her to be bringing it up, it's like, damn,
that's awesome. But does it stop here? I think the
interest will still be there because you're trying to see
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how she translates.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
You know, there's a lot of talk of that.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
A lot of the women in the WNBA saying, Hey,
all these hot shots, all these stars in college, we're
excited for what you're doing, but now bring it to
the WNBA and let's see what you got. Same way
men get excited about these young hot shot college stars
playing in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Remember how excited you were watching. I just think that,
and again I could be way wrong on this.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
I think that some of these hot shot college women
like the Caitlin Clarks of the world could have impact.
I think they could compete a lot sooner than some
of these men. I could be way wrong. I don't
think you're wrong. I mean I could be. I just wonder,
like I said, the true is.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
But I'll be tuning in. I really will be. But
it goes. It still goes back to your point, though, Rich,
for how long?
Speaker 5 (12:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
For how long is I'll give you another one. You
and I anything just like bar. You love that new
bar in town. When it opens up, you're there every weekend.
Eventually you stop going as often as you did in
the beginning. It could be anything in life. So I
think I'll definitely check it out to see how she
translates into w NBA. But if I'll be tuning in
every week. There's a coffee shop out here in La
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Danny g Ever, go to Phil's Coffee.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
You were all about it with the Z right Phills,
with the Z Dude. It's so good.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
They got these little like a moheedo coffee. They got
all this cool stuff. There was like a two month
period of my life where.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
I'm like I discovered Phills fil f Starbucks F coffee Bean.
I was like, Phils, I love this guy, my favorite
Phil other than Negro or Michelson. Hey, Rich, where are
you going filth?
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Rich was all about it. Like two months later, I
was like, Yeah, back to Starbucks. I'm just wondering, are
we gonna be back to Starbucks? We're gonna get on kicks.
It's just that's human nature Michael Jackson style. Let me
give you an human nature.
Speaker 7 (13:09):
Man.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
You get on these kicks, it's exciting, But then you
go back to your normal routine and.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
What it's like, Danny, It's like my peloton. It's like
it's like my Orange Theory days. It's like my CrossFit adventures.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Every you don't tell me.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
It's like every six months there would be something new that,
uh there.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Was I used to have again. It's all part of
routine too. Your routine changes. It could be anything. Your
interest changes, your patterns change I used to go. Your
living situation might change, your schedule might change.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
It could be anything.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
For me.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
This is the story of the peanut buttery. What's the
peanut buttery? You say, the lame name of an awesome smoothie.
I used to get every day, and it was such
a part of my life. Every day I'd go to
Whole Foods because it was part of my routine. I
go in there, Hey, can I get a peanut buttery.
People knew my name, people knew.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
What I wanted.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Hey, you want the usual? Yeah, hook it up, the
peanut buttery, the hell us the scuba as it is.
It's like some protein smoothie at home Foods.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Sounds good. And then, out of nowhere, one day I
stopped going. I don't know what it was.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Schedule change again, I forgot, got hit on the head.
I don't know what happened. And then my daughter brought
it up out of nowhere. She's like, hey, Dad, remember
we used to get the Kariaki ball and you'd get
that smoothie all the time.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
And I'm like, you know what, I haven't gotten.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
That smoothie in years. When did I fall out of
the routine. I don't know. The thing is, I've gone
on from kick after kick after kick from that smoothie, and.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
We all do.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
It's whatever shiny new things in the area, whatever new
person is in the office. Hey, remember when you got
that new receptionist. Everyone was talking.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
About her she's old hat now because you went on
to something different.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
So who's old hat? Brett Farms, who's old hat? He
does have a Yeah. Now everybody's all about Caitlin Clark.
She's the new fun thing to talk about. But much
like the sports cycle, it's on to the neck. There's
gonna be another story, and of course more people will
be tuning into the WNBA.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
The question is for how long?
Speaker 4 (15:14):
And I guess that depends on how much she's lighting
it up and how I don't know how much of
a fan we really are.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
It's yet to be seen. I think I'll be tuning in. Rich.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
I don't tune into the WNBA. Let's make it clear,
for no real reason. I don't want people to make
assumptions because there is none. I just don't. But I'll
tune in when she's playing for Indiana, the Indiana Fever
number one draft pick, to see how it translates, see
how it works, to see the excitement, and then from
there I think we all see, Well, how long are
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we tuning in?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Matt in Minnesota, hit us up, Good morning CNR. Nice
to heat in for Dan Patrick. She's the new kick,
is my point, he said, giving on Rich. I genuinely
hope this is the start of America being interested in
women's basketball be awesome at a high level. It's fun
to watch with my fourteen year old angel rees Kaitlin Clark.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
A lot of these.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Women could bring rivalries that we don't already have in
the WA.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
I think it's on the WNBA now and on basketball
to create these storylines that we care about. Kaitlyn Clark
did her job, meaning she set it up. She set
it up right now for the world to care. How
do they build these storylines? How do they build these rivalries?
How does the league get us to care? How do
they build these matchups? How do they market this? All
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of these things matter because she pulled us in, we
took debate. We're here. It all matters. What happens with
Indiana Fever. I got another I got another example for you,
buddy boy.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Sure, I'd say.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Oh, six months ago or so, could we know? And
I got an email a confirmation that we were in.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Danny. We got access to see Messy play against LAFC.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
I thought you were gonna say the Magic Castle.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
I've been there one time. Magic Castle is fun.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
If anyone's ever been out here, in La It's like
a It's like a dinner theater where they have magicians.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Invite only invite only. Yeah, been there, cool like it.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
But we went to go see Lionel Messi play against LAFC.
Covino was taken aback by how cool the crowd was.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
What did they cheer the whole time? Dolly, Dolly, black
and gold, Dolly black and gold, black and go the
whole time they're cheering. This place is insane.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Cavino's like bro lfc is shocking football at the same
time you were watching Ted Lasso. This was soccer boy
for a minute. I haven't heard you talk about it
since I was prisoner of the moment?
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Is that what we all are?
Speaker 4 (17:59):
You got to get some hardcore residual WNBA fans out
of this. There has to be some. There's more than
they started with thanks to Kaitlin Clark. There's no question.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
I want to be positive. I don't want to sound
like a negative jerk.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
I'm just saying, how do they That's that's I guess
you would say part two the question, how do they?
I don't think you're a negative jerk for questioning human nature?
How do they keep the momentum is what I'm saying.
It's like, it's like, you know those couples you meet
and they're like, we've been married twenty years, have we
still make love four times a week? You're like, what,
what is your secret?
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Like?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
What there are people you meet where You're like, I mean,
you know, go to the gym five days a week
my whole life. It's like, you don't go through stuff,
you don't go through.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Ups and downs. Huh. We need to figure out They.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Got to build these rivalries too, man, because if you're
not tuning in and you're tuning for Kaitlyn Clark, what
difference is it to you that she's up against filling
the blank.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I don't want to, uh Covino. I don't want to
make it seem like this is the same thing. But
I did see the analogy of this upstart league that
was at times question.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Will it make it?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
That was the NBA, And then they got these two
people you might have heard of them, Magic Johnson and
Larry Bird, and that rivalry took the NBA to a
new level.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
And then you know the base and the bases the trip.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Welcome in, Michael Jordan, and welcome in the other stars
and the rest is history.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
I mean that would be the dream of the w
NBA and Kate when Clark alone creates some fun rivalry.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Yeah, of course Rich isn't naysaying Rich isn't rooting against Rich,
isn't hating in any way. He's saying, this is the
true test. How many people really will tune into the
w NBA. Or was it just a phase? Was it
just a kick?
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Was it just prisoner of the moment? And Katelyn Clark's
on the Indiana fever scoring fifteen game?
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Was it lightning in the bottles that were you're looking for?
Was it was it just a quick moment in time
where we loved it? Is it insanity ish or is
it more permanence. If it's permanence, that would be great
for women's sports. I just wonder where people's heads are at.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
We'll take your feedback. We'd love to hear from you.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
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Speaker 4 (20:34):
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Speaker 3 (20:47):
Yeah, you blubber list lame in me. Well, you know
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Rich Welcome to our show and we're talking about the
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true test right now.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Not to take anything away.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
What we watched in women's college basketball was amazing, great
game again, congrats to South Carolina undefeated season eighty seven
to seventy five over Iowa and Caitlin Clark was magic,
as you keep saying, Rich, magic in a bottle.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
I know, like it's lightning, dude. Oh lighting, That's what
I met?
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Or was it?
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Does it have staying power. It's yet to be seen.
So we're just posing the question, not rooting against by
any means. But when all these young stars, especially Caitlin Clark,
hits the WNBA, do we now follow over getting feedback?
People are hoping So.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
I mean, listen, there were things that were new that
you didn't know if they were going to catch on
or get the momentum it needed.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
I remember in the.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Beginning days of mixed martial arts, Dana White's pushing this
and everyone's like, you mean, like fighting in an octagon?
Speaker 3 (22:58):
I don't know about that.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
I remember Joe Rogan being on talk shows. There's very
famous viral clips.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
He's on Conan for example, and everybody's sort of laughing.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Like, hey, so you're really into this stuff. He's like, yeah,
I think it's gonna take off.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Are you sure about that?
Speaker 4 (23:14):
You have tussling on the ring, Well, yeah, this no
no guy versus a jiu jitsu guy.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
But the intrigue was definitely there for sure. It had
staying power, lasting power. Look, we all get the game
of basketball. Are they gonna be able to build these rivalries?
And Keith the momentum going rocket dog in Minnesota says,
I genuinely hope it is the start of America being
interested in women's basketball at a high level. It was
fun to watch my fourteen year old hope angel Rees.
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Can'tlin Clark bring the rivalry into the WNBA. Look, unfortunately,
part of that rivalry is we do kind of want
them to hate each other in a way, and they
already made it clear that they don't.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
But they still had us pulled in.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Even that game had over thirteen million people sixteen at
his peak, yesterday's game fourteen point two million. They definitely
have the momentum heading into next year's w NBA season
as a matter of how long will they keep us?
Speaker 2 (24:09):
It's a new restaurant in town. Does an hour wait
every night? Then eventu you're like, oh, I could get
a table, and then eventually it's like, is this this
restaurant gonna make it? I hope for the sake of
women's sports in Kaitlin Clark that people do care about
the Indiana fever. I just wonder is it magic and
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a bottle lightning in a bottle that we just all
got wrapped up the good?
Speaker 3 (24:35):
For good reason?
Speaker 4 (24:35):
People today, more than ever before, short attention spans like
we could be all about one thing and then the
next new cycle hits and we completely forgot about what
we were excited about just weeks ago. Like Danny j
he came in here, he was like, yeah, who's that
football league? Everybody here was so excited.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
He can't even remember what league it was, but he's
saying everybody.
Speaker 8 (25:00):
I was like, XFL, No, the UFL, the USFL, no, no, no,
the player control, the fan controlled football.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
No no, no, no, no, I got it.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
I got it. Kevin Wirrett helped me.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
Remember the AAF, the Alliance of American Football.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
So everybody remember what you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Everybody's excited about it, and then what fast forward, the
next new cycle hit, something else happened.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
By the next weekend, nobody was talking about it. Again.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
That's just how we are. So it's on them, Cantlin Clark,
all these young stars. They did their job. They did
their job. It's about the league and how they market
this moving forward. Yeah, I mean, do you remember every
Sunday night, what do we watch?
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Walking Dead? Still on the spinoffs?
Speaker 2 (25:50):
But the care the way you did again, it goes
back to the Shavir Legs analogy. The beginning of every relationship.
A woman shows up for every date, manicure, pedicure, shave
their own body, ready to roll. You know, you date
someone for a while, then you end up just snuggling
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watching Netflix.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Well, to answer your original question, though, the true test,
will I tune in? And I'm a great example because
I was never tuning in before. Yes, the answer is yes.
But it's a matter of what they do from there.
It's like you said, that new restaurant. When you go
to that new restaurant, what do they do to bring
it back?
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Yeah? Did they give you a free dessert? You know?
You know, and keep it interesting? You know what they
setting They make you feel special.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Like I said, it's on the league at that point,
because they got us in the establishment, They got us
in the building. Are they gonna make me feel special?
Are they gonna keep me pumped up? Are they gonna
sell these matchups? Something exciting gonna happen. It's a lot
on the players, but more on how they market this
moving forward. How do they get the fans in? How
did they get you to the game, How do they
keep you there? How did they get you that's it going?
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How do they get you to come back to the restaurant.
Think about it. The restaurants I go back to, it's
because the owner came out, made me feel special.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
They got me in the door. Why don't you go
back because you got bad service? Well, they did nothing
special to keep you.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Exactly or that nothing better than you feeling special about
something like you're invested, like you're part of it.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
If the w NBA is able to capture the.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Magic in the bottle that you keep saying, they're able
to capture this lightning, take it from the college, the
college scene, and bring it to the professional scene, then bam,
then they've done it.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Let's go to who's that Chad? Yeah, Shad, what's up?
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Shad at Iowa? You're on the show? Convin On Rich
Infan Dan Patrick. Rich wanted it to be Shad, what's up?
Speaker 7 (27:51):
Hey? Here's the thing, I live in Iowa. Katelyn Clark
is huge.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (27:57):
The problem is when they get into the WNBA, it's
going to be hard for people to find where to
watch the games, Unlike the tournament, whereas I'm the CBS, NBC,
all the big networks. Once it hits that WNBA, the
time slots are jacked up, where you can try to
find the games as hard. And I think that's going
(28:20):
to be the big problem. They're going to have to
move it to you know what I'm saying. They're going
to have to give it that big time feel.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Yeah, that's a great point. No one wants to like
tune in. You got all this excitement for college basketball.
You don't want to tune into some low budget looking
production just to see, you know. And you got to
figure the first games will be nationally televised for you
to watch. At least that's what you think, right, They'll
make a big deal out of it, and then it's
(28:48):
a matter of how many people tune in. And I
think it starts, unfortunately too, with a lot of women.
Like we've always said, women need to support other women.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
Here, all the.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
People excited about it, now keep that excitement. Yeah, I
think the guys are doing their job. Yeah, you got
us in, Yeah, got us in the building.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
You know.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Let me add one more thing to this. I think
that was a good point there for anyone saying she
needed to win. It would have a championship, it would
have hell, But you can't compare her to other elite
athletes who have won championships because she really had a
two year window.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
She played in college for you know, four years.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
But and I like when she's like, I can't be
the fined on one game, I mean you can't.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
I get that.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Keep in mind Covino when she got to Iowa. Just
looking back, I can't say that I knew this. I
mean I wasn't watching Iowa women's basketball four years ago.
But that program, from what I've read up on and now,
was Garbagia.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
She took it to the next level.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
So the last two years were the years where she
was so good and they built it enough where they
could compete. She had two years to win one, and
she did it. Athletes, when they're pro, what do they
have five, ten, fifteen years to win something? It's not
I don't think it's a knock at her that she
didn't get it done, especially against a team that looked unbeatable,
(30:12):
Like you know, they were unbeatable. You know, when you're
watching any sport and you know the team that your
team is facing is just way better that they have
to make mistakes any any time it looked like Iowa
was in it. Immediately South Carolina's.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Like, nope, nah, it's so down.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Oh it's within it's within five, not that long for
a player. So they're just they were just a better team.
So again, hopefully you enjoyed the weekend. It was all
about the bench obviously, and it's.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
And it's just a true test.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
We shall see, like anything in life, could it keep
your pea brain, goldfish memory attention.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
We're all going to tune in to see the intrigue
of how it translates into WNBA for how much longer
to that It's yet to be seen.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
But yes, the answer is yes, we all passed the
true test. Moving forward. When we were rooting for Indiana, well,
something else that went down this weekend, something else that
I said, you know what, I don't watch it. It's free,
not free.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
But if you watch the Miami Dolphins Kansas City Chiefs
earlier this year, what was the big complaint about that
game on precock.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
I'm not a streaming service.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Every people hate that everyone be watching and complaining about
Netflix went for DP.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
I got nothing bad to say about Peacock. Listen.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
I enjoy the offerings of Peacock, which is another service
I'm spending money on.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
But you know what, that's a worldly living stop complaining.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Stop complaining the way you know it's the future if
you think you could stop it.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
I think a lot of people realize they still had
peacock from that game.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
So, like I said, I was a kid that grew
up a little Hulka maniac. Probably WrestleMania is one through ten.
I knew as much as any little kid about wrestling.
I loved it the same way I love baseball cards
and football and everything I did. I was a little
wrestling fanatic. And then, like I said, life happened. You
(32:25):
discover girls, college life, and then you're like.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
It all happened so sudden, right You hung up your
Hulka maniac headband, Yeah, closed your baseball cardbinder, like I've
been down your Nintendo control.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
I now prioritize ups.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
And you hung up that poster of that first woman
whoever it was at Spencer Gifts at the time.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
I remember Cindy Crawford for me. I remember hul Cogan
becoming Hollywood Hogan.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Sorry Halkster making room for at the Ireland. Loving it
for a couple of years. I'm like, man n wodn
rude borrow And then I was like, eh, that's pretty cool.
All right, I'm a big boy. Now I don't have
time for this.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
Sorry British Bulldogs. I'm making room for the Barbie Twins.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
So I watched last night and Saturday night I watched
WrestleMania forty. I have a few observations and thoughts just
from the production standpoint, everything about it. And have you
watched Mania over the weekend, which I'm sure a lot
of people did, back to back the nights of seventy
plus thousand people in Chile, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
So observations from WrestleMania.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
We'll talk a little NFL as we get closer to
the draft, plus tonight a little one shining moment the
men play tonight, so we'll break it all down. Coming
up your buds, Covin and rich In for Dan Patrick
Life in the Mercedes Benz Studio, Hang Tight.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Be sure to catch the live edition of The Dan
Patrick Show weekdays at nine am Eastern six am Pacific
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Speaker 3 (34:07):
App Hey, welcome back.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
Good to be here, always live from Mercedes Benz Studios.
Cavino and rich In for Dan Patrick Live from Mercedes
Benz Studios. Like I said, Joel on the ones and twos.
Always great to see Joel and Danny J. Danny J
is our super producer eight seven seven ninety nine on
Fox Good Morning, Dicky, do you know I'm thinking about it?
You think we'll look back because this is the hope,
(34:30):
right to wrap up our previous conversation about the truth
test as well follow the WNBA. Now, you think we'll
look back like you believe we even had this conversation
like it was even a question, like when you talk about.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Women's rights or women's voting and things like that. I
don't think it's the same thing. But no, I don't
think so. I think it's the same thing.
Speaker 5 (34:53):
IOO.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
I think what I'm saying is you think you'll look
back and feel like odd about you believe we even
debated like pompous men, Like you think we'll give it
a chance now where.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
In the future it might be so matter.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Of fact, like yeah, of course people in And the
reason the women's sports, the reason I answered you that
way is because I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
You really don't. I think we're not gonna watch Wow,
I think you're gonna.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Watch Caitlin Clark's first game for the Indiana Fever there's gotta.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Be a point in time, Rich, where we've been saying
about that. No, you've been saying about not you, the
collective you.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Everyone's been saying that about football soccer since Peley, Like.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Oh, it's gonna go mainstream. We're gonna love it here
in the States.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Around the world, everyone loves soccer. I love Ted Lasso,
I love fictional soccer. I love but but guess what,
I don't watch soccer the World Cup every four years.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
You'll get invested because it's just the it's the thing
to watch with the right people.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
If Messi is not the guy you're not watching.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
Just because you're not watching doesn't mean that other people
in the world aren't tuning in.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
And it's not growing. It's growing, but you're Vegas fault.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
But growing, Rich Davis doesn't do it, then nobody must
do it.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
That's a joke. That's a joke, dude. Just because something's
growing doesn't mean it's huge mass appeal. Well, it's yet
to be seen. It's yet to be seen.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Well will you might look back and like laugh at
ourselves that it was even a question of course we're
tuning in, or you could look back and laughing you like,
can you believe we thought Caitlin Clark was gonna get
us to watch a WNBA.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
We will see you give me one of the other
your feedback at Covino and Rich and we move on.
Because aside from college basketball and by the way, tonight
Purdue Yukon excited.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
We'll talk about it later the bold.
Speaker 4 (36:41):
Aside from that, it was WrestleMania forty and it was
some big buzz about it.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Well, this makes you feel old, right forty, Because if
you're a kid of the eighties, you remember, remember, you
remember the old school WrestleManias. You remember Hault Cogan and
mister t as a little Boyresselmnia one. You remember him
slamming Andre the Giant WrestleMania three in nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
Yeah, who would have thought that would have caught.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Your little childhood memories? Forty years at a ted, we're
at WrestleMania forty. It's like our parents, it's like, did
a masterful job at giving us new storylines and reasons
to care for weeks and years at end.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
And it all started with that rivalry.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
As they say, now it's the Triple H era. Now
our parents grew up probably.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
Thinking, oh, what's this new fangle thing the super Bowl,
the AFL and the NFL.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
What that's something else? And here we are fifty plus
super bowls later, So I get it. Things do build.
But it was cool to watch WrestleMania forty and I
wrote down some observations, and observation number one is how.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
Big this stuff has become.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
Like if you watched a pay per view in the
eighties or no, there wasn't a lot of ads. You
might've had, Oh yea a slim gym, you know, macho
man ad or something. Every every match there's digital ads
on the apron, on the in the in the arena.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
It's ad heavy, which is not bad. I get it.
They're paying the bills.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
When you got seventy two thousand people showing up two
nights in a row, millions tuning in, you better figure
out a.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
Way to market this make some money. But I get it.
It just was a lower budget production back then. The
production value is weak. Sponsors were slim and gym.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
And I get it because if you've been watching wrestling
every year since then. But I'm coming from the place
of it's been a good five to ten years since
I really watched a pay per view. I've noticed that
the entrances when these guys come down to the ring. Yeah,
you want to hit me up with some Cody Rhodes theme,
you know your new wrestling champion. These guys have entrances
(39:04):
that are so elaborate. Now to think back when we
were kids, Like there were only a couple guys in
the old school days that had a theme song. Some
guys would just walked down to the ring like yeah,
but they are singling on.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
Here we go.
Speaker 4 (39:24):
They really milk it too, man, dude, they walk so slow.
I really take in every moment. My number one observation is.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
It used to be like the Hulks or someone It
would take it maybe thirty seconds or so to come
down to the ring. These wrestlers now have a Deontay
Wilder boxing entrance, like a like a twenty minute, dude.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
Twenty minutes, whoa.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Dude, This is like a twenty minute entrance for every
big star that main event, Roman Reigns, the rock seth
freaking Rollins, and Cody Rhads coming out. Each guy took
fifteen minutes to walk down to the ring. It was
a good hour just watching these guys do their entrance.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
Rich was very adamant. Like adamant, Rich was very adamant
that I watched the final event from Saturday night and
I did.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
I'm like, just what to say? The least you were welmed?
I was so whelmed. I didn't not notice what you're saying.
I absolutely did. As far as entertainment, as far as
production value, yeah, I mean it was some cheesiness, like
the lightning that they have, you know, flying into the ring.
I mean, you people are walking down. You weren't underwhelmed
or overwhelmed. You were just whelmed because the theatrics are
(40:43):
so bad. You know, the set of eyes you have
with you is always an indicator on how you feel
about it too, Like was it a great vibe when
you watched?
Speaker 2 (40:53):
Like?
Speaker 4 (40:53):
Are you there with kids that are pumped about it?
Are you there with wrestling fans? I was there with
my girlfriend who was like, I can't believe how fake
this is. I can't believe. My wife and I were fascinated.
It was big heavyweights. You know, it's the rock who's
moving in slow motion. It's rolling Rains who barely moves
(41:13):
it all seth rollins who's not really doing anything. That
acrobatic like I like the young, fast acrobatic sort of
choreography and wrestling. I disagree with you when you are
watching from the lens of someone who's just being very
practical about it.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
Or buzz you can say, or buzz kill. This is
the dumbest thing they've ever seen.
Speaker 4 (41:34):
It looks like little kids playing pretend, because that's exactly
what it is, and that's what I was witnessing.
Speaker 2 (41:41):
I'm like, this is the slowest moving trash. My wife
and I felt that last match, we felt the complete option.
Speaker 3 (41:48):
My wife and I wasn't make you write or me right.
We watched it were like, wow, this is really next level, what.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
A great event, and wrestling is alive and well for
reasons I have to be.
Speaker 3 (41:59):
It's entertaining on a whole new level. It just takes
a particular set of eyes and ears to be interested.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
So hey, hopefully I had a great wrestle mini weekend
and tonight one shining moment the Men's NCAA Championship.
Speaker 3 (42:14):
We'll get to that next right here, can you know?
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