The Best of The Dan Patrick Show

C&R are in for the great Dan Patrick! They have fun talking "eclipse nerds" & Caitlin Clark's future. Will we watch her in the WNBA, or are we just prisoners of the moment? They have fun debating "the fakeness" of pro wrestling these days. Why didn't Covino enjoy WrestleMania 40, when Rich loved it? The studio lines are loaded, as callers weigh-in on players from rival teams that you secretly love! Plus, the guys get you ready for tonight's Men's Championship game! 

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Episode Transcript

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, treat for you. Everybody else is like, what, No,
we're gonna have fun today? What? No way, I have
a lot of fun. There's a lot to get to
live from the Mercedes Benz Studio.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Day one of the Dan Patrick Hatrick, the boss says, hey,
you want to fill in for DP.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
How could we say no?

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Offer you can't refuse so we're here. No way, Absolutely,
we'll fill in, fill in, Frank. Normally you were 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.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Like your parents.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
I'm joking, I 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. Hope

(01:14):
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 3 (01:22):
Grew up because you love cheesy things. I'm just kidding,
just kidding. Just watch that again. I did watch it.
I watched some of it. I'll save my observations. Okay,
I just don't want to seem like the guy that
hates everything today. I have plenty of observations.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
I was a kid that grew up a little whole
comniac 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 last couple of years.

Speaker 3 (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 3 (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 4 (02:12):
Even the version.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
Ah well, I know it's like disrespectful to say any
bit about Luther.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
The song is kind of lame. The bone is tipped.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
And there you don't ever do that again.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
We'll get to that. And I think there is one
thing we could get to maybe later in the show,
eclips e clip. Can you know what I agree on
one thing, and that's if you're an a CLIPS person,
you're cut from a certain cloth and that's not the
same cloth as me.

Speaker 3 (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.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
You do need proper sunglasses, Yeah, you need you need uh,
you need some Oakley's to put on old school nineties.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
Oak LEAs just in case. Today's the big day. So
be careful, don't burn your corneus or whatever happens.

Speaker 4 (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 4 (03:21):
What's up? Happy Monday morning.

Speaker 3 (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 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. The
true test is, now, what the hell is he talking?
Hate tests?

Speaker 3 (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 2 (04:00):
He got wind of this, Danny G. And you know
what he would do. He would do all the work,
not fill out a scantron until the very end of class,
and then be like you see a B C. And
I'm like, yo, what a jerk? Just so just so
I couldn't once in all, peek over back, Yo, what
you got for number eight?

Speaker 4 (04:18):
Yeah? How dare he not let you cheat?

Speaker 2 (04:20):
For me?

Speaker 3 (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, And.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
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 you're like
the a year out of Scantron's. Yeah. 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,

(04:53):
let me explain. There's so many things in life that
you have pure excitement about, pure joy, things that you
gotta see, things you gotta watch, things you gotta listen to,
and then something happens, life kicks in. You know, the

(05:15):
excitement wears off, and then it just becomes casually the
background and part of your life.

Speaker 3 (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.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
I wrote down the first thing I wrote down. We're
on the same page. I wrote down, shave legs, not me. Waitman,
when you start dating someone, you only do your arms
only in the beginning of a relationship. 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,

(05:58):
makeup's done, perfect, everything, Like every time you see that person,
and then what happens. Eventually, eventually you pick her up.
She has a mustache. Yeah, reality sets in, like, oh
my god, reality sets in happens all the time in
so many aspects of life. Danny G. Before the show,
you were saying, sort of like that Cinderella team in

(06:19):
marsh Madness, where at first it's fun to root for them,
you really invested, and.

Speaker 5 (06:23):
You 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 3 (06:38):
Right at the end of the day, say you want that,
but proof is in the ratings.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
Not anyone cares at at that point. You know what
it's like too.

Speaker 3 (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 2 (06:59):
You forgot all about it. It's the it's the true test.
I can give analogies all day. I won't, I'll spare you,
but I think I know what you're saying.

Speaker 3 (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 morning radio.
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 what
of stops, Denny goes. Think of every morning show early on,

(07:39):
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,
I mean, get comfortable. Yeah. So the true test is
now the kitling Clark has glamored the world, and I'm

(08:00):
not taking anything away from her. I watched I loved it.
I thought it was a great run. Truthfully, rich nobody
can nobody can. I know.

Speaker 3 (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, Giff,
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.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
On keeping on? And by the way, I was surprised
that some of that hate that you speak of came
from other women. And women are so big on my
wife and her friends. I always hear 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 the calog down a little bit, Mike.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
What is last weekend? 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. Can't
be hating on Kaitlyn Clark did amazing things.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
I should know, good, But that's the true test, 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

(09:28):
Indiana Fever. Let me ask you on a Tuesday night,
Rich's immune to the fever? On a Tuesday night? Are
you gonna be watching Caitlyn 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

(09:51):
different game. And she has elevated women's basketball, I think
to a level now where mission accomplished, intrigue is 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? Eight seven seven ninety nine, OUs
Fox to prove your point, Rich fourteen point two million,
I believe tuned in most 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

(10:29):
of South Carolina. 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 2 (10:42):
Like even my fourteen year old daughter was asking me
about it. That's a nice thing. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (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. You know, there's a lot of talk
of that. A lot of the women in the WNBA saying, hey,
all these hot shots, all these stars in college were
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, hotshot college stars playing

(11:31):
in the NBA.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
Remember how excited you were watching. I just think that,
and again I could be way wrong on this.

Speaker 3 (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 2 (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 4 (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.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
So I think I'll definitely check it out to see
how she translates into w NBA.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
But if I'll be tuning in every week. There's a
coffee shop out here in La Danny g Ever, go
to Phil's Coffee. You were all about it with the
Z right Phills, with the Z Dude. It's so good.
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 I'm like I discovered Phills

(12:45):
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 4 (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 a human nature.

Speaker 6 (13:09):
Man.

Speaker 3 (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.
Every you don't tell me. It's like every six months
there would be something new that, uh there.

Speaker 3 (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 2 (13:44):
It could be anything.

Speaker 3 (13:46):
For me, 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.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
Every day, and it was such a part of my life.

Speaker 3 (13:56):
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 4 (14:04):
What I wanted.

Speaker 3 (14:04):
Hey, you want the usual? Yeah, hook it up. The
peanut buttery. The hell the scuba as it is. It's
like some protein smoothie at home Foods.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
Sounds good. And then, out of nowhere, one day I
stopped going. I don't know what it was.

Speaker 3 (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 2 (14:29):
And I'm like, you know what, I haven't gotten that
smoothie in years. When did I fall out of the routine.
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (14:37):
The thing is, I've gone on from kick after kick
after kick from that smoothie, and we all do 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 about her. She's old hat
now because you went on to something different. So who's
old hat? Brett Farms, who's old hat? He does have

(14:59):
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 2 (15:13):
The question is for how long?

Speaker 3 (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 2 (15:22):
It's yet to be seen. I think I'll be tuning in. Rich.

Speaker 3 (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, coming on Rich. I genuinely
hope this is the start of America being interested in
women's basketball be awesome at a high level. It was
fun to watch with my fourteen year old angel rees
Kaitlin Clark. A lot of these women could bring rivalries
that we don't already have in the WA.

Speaker 3 (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 2 (16:44):
Sure, I'd say, oh, six months ago or so, could
we know? And I got an email a confirmation that
we were in. Danny. We got access to see Messy
play against LAFC.

Speaker 4 (17:02):
I thought you were gonna say the Magic Castle.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
I've been there one time. Magic Castle is fun. If
anyone's ever been out here in La it's like a
It's like a dinner theater where they have magicians invite
only invite only. Yeah, been there, cool like it. But
we went to go see Lionel Messi play against LAFC.
Covino was taken aback by how cool the crowd was.

(17:29):
What did they cheer the whole time?

Speaker 6 (17:31):
Dolly Dolly, black and gold, black and gold, black and gold,
the whole time they're cheering.

Speaker 2 (17:41):
This place is insane. Cavino's like bro LFC is shock
game 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?
Is that what we all are?

Speaker 3 (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 2 (18:07):
I want to be positive. I don't want to sound
like a negative jerk. 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? Like? What there

(18:30):
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 ups and downs. Huh. We need to figure out.

Speaker 3 (18:40):
They got to build these rivalries too, man, because if
you're not tuning in and your teening 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 will it make it? That was
the NBA, And then they got these two people you
might have heard of them, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird,

(19:11):
and that rivalry took the NBA to a new level.
And then you know the base and the bases the trip.
Welcome in Michael Jordan and welcome in the other stars
and the rest is history. I mean that would be
the dream of the w NBA and Kate when Clark
alone creates some fun rivalry.

Speaker 3 (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 2 (19:44):
Was it just prisoner of the moment? And Katelyn Clark's
on the Indiana fever scoring fifteen game? 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.

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Speaker 2 (20:16):
Hey, We're Covino and Rich Fox Sports Radio every day
five to seven pm Eastern. But here's the thing, we
never have enough time to get to everything we want
to get to.

Speaker 3 (20:25):
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. Yeah, you blobber list name in me.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
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 3 (20:43):
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 and 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 (20:57):
Well, if you don't get enough Covino and Rich, shore
you check out over Promise 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 3 (21:07):
There you go, over Promising, and remember you could see
it on YouTube, but definitely join us. Listen Over Promised
with Cavino and Rich on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts
or wherever you get your podcasts.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
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We're like your Guma.

Speaker 3 (21:24):
I'll be your Jenis Rossy. That's fine, I'll be your Guman.
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Speaker 2 (21:57):
Right now, damn Petrick.

Speaker 3 (21:59):
We got Danny g on the phones at eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox at Covino and Rich, let's
get involved. We got Joel on the xylophones. Joel on
the ones and two is always great to see Joel,
and of course Kevin Wyer hanging out with us. Thank
you guys for hanging out with us. Now, before we
get into tonight's game and the Solar eclips that everybody's

(22:20):
buzzing about and all the other nonsense going on in sports.
Hope all your team's won this weekend. Rich is talking
WrestleMania forty and the observations he made. Can't deny the
production value from when we were kids to now, there's
no question. But is a timestamp though forty Wow, you
remember watching the first one? I told you we were

(22:41):
there from the inception of this it must have been
the start of wrestling. But as far as WrestleManias, there's
only a few things we could say that we were
part of. Yeah, and watched it drove this way, it
must be a UFC comes to mind. I tell you
how our parents must feel about the Super Bowl. If
your parents are sixty years old, they must have that

(23:02):
memory of like.

Speaker 2 (23:03):
Oh, yeah, when I was a kid, there was a
Super Bowl one like I wonder if this will catch on.
When we were kids, it was it was gonna be
called like something like the uh the Great American Dussle,
and then Vince Micksman, Vince McMann documvinced, like, how about WrestleMania,
and uh hey, forty years later, it's the old timestamp

(23:24):
makes you feel old as hell. But it was a
great weekend. You had some great hoops, you had some great.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
Wrestling watching it from my adult eyes, and if you
don't know Covino and Rich, I take a weird pride
in being very immature. For some reason, even I can't
suspend my belief and pretend that.

Speaker 2 (23:46):
I can't say that I'm entertained because I'm watching.

Speaker 3 (23:48):
Like really that's I'm watching, And I'm just amazed that
people care that much, because I'm feeling like, do they
even try to sell these moves anymore? It looks so
fake to my eyes. Obviously it's fake. That's not my point.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
I'm just saying I feel like they're not even trying
to make it look. He's not like a buzz call.
I thought it was fantastic. I enjoyed every month. My
wife and I have to agree with you, but my
wife and I watched were like, Wow, this is a
who's trying to take the fun out of your looks
fake Sunday. Yeah, but it's like they're not even trying
to make it look. I think it looks more real
than ever.

Speaker 3 (24:20):
It's a joke. I sit there, I'm like, I can't
believe people love it in this way that you expect
me to care. I can't get you to care about
Canelo fighting, Mugia on sinking to my own weekend now fights,
and you expect me to care about these big g
loose plane pretend But my point is, I can't get

(24:41):
you to come to Vegas for free now Fox Sports
Radio's dime on a real fight that matters. And you
expect me to care about Roman reigns and the bloodline,
the Final Boss.

Speaker 2 (24:54):
Give me entertainment.

Speaker 3 (24:55):
I'm not saying it's not. I'm saying I'm an adult
and I can't really get in to it the way
I did when I was twelve.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
I'm glad you brought up baseball cards. I still like.

Speaker 3 (25:04):
Them, but I can't get into it the same way.
If you have kids, I get that, because you see
through their eyes. You'll like what they like no matter what.
You'll like their weak ass music that they like. You'll
like their weak ass cartoons that they like because they're
your kids, and you're caught in the moment.

Speaker 2 (25:19):
I get it. You brought up baseball cards, you brought
up video games. Guess what.

Speaker 3 (25:27):
I have fond memories. No one played Nintendo more than
I did. Fond memory, But I can't get into it
the way I once did. That's how I feel about wrestling.
I feel like I can't.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
Do it well.

Speaker 3 (25:37):
And I'm the most immature, forty something year old guy
you'll ever meet. And that's not to knock you. If
you like it the collective you you listening, and you
enjoy it, by all means, man.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
That's what life to be. Honest. I think I'm just
surprised because I haven't watched wrestling in a long time.
I watched it from like fresh new eyes. I'm like,
huh as entertaining as I remember it. What a great
weekend for WrestleMania, and I tried. I tried the opposite. Yeah,
and that doesn't make like I said, you right me wrong.
If anything, You're more right, because look how many people

(26:08):
are tuning in. I just can't believe it. I'm like,
there's real fights. It was there was a UFC Fight
Night on Saturday night, and a lot of you didn't care.
There's big boxing matches, you don't care. People want entertainment.

Speaker 3 (26:21):
I don't think anyone like I like. I prefer that,
you know, I don't like it. I tuned in. I
see the excitement. The entertainment value for me is like,
I just can't believe that much hype is behind this well,
but there's a new champion. The rock was back, lots

(26:43):
of cameos. Jason Kelsey came out for a minute, an
undertaker came out. That was cool, yeah, John Cena. Another
observation that Rich made off the air. Rich does his
best show off the air, and then he comes on
the air and forgets all his awesome points.

Speaker 2 (26:59):
You said that.

Speaker 3 (27:00):
For you, the great indicator that you hadn't tuned in
in a long time was that people know when to
chant and know when to sing along.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
Oh yeah, that's like, uh, you know during everyone's theme song,
there's like a point where everyone's like whoa and oh.

Speaker 3 (27:14):
Yeah, and there's this move that Roman Reigns has and
everyone chants when he does it.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
He sits in the corner, how he puts his hands up. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (27:21):
For me, it's like when you go to church around
the holidays and you realize you hadn't been there in
a long time because they say and also with your spirit,
and you're like, oh that's.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
A new one.

Speaker 3 (27:30):
Wait, peace be with you no no longer and also
with you get out of here. It's and also with
your spirit. Yes, that's been a thing for a long time.

Speaker 2 (27:39):
Peace be with you, but also with you when everyone
at church chimes in and you look around like, yeah,
I guess it's been a while. That's how you felt
watching some wrestling. If you haven't watched in a minute,
Peace be with you. And I'm not trying to dump
on anyone's fun. Believe you me. If that's what brings
you joy, man, lean into it if you have kids, especially,
But I tried.

Speaker 3 (28:01):
I gave it a valiant effort, and I was like, yeah,
that's why I don't tune in.

Speaker 2 (28:05):
I can't. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm glad he did
WrestleMania over the weekend. Uh, we'll take a couple of
quick phone calls and then we'll talk about tonight as march. Man.
This culminates with your national championship. Uh, let's go to
Mike in North Carolina. What's up, Mike, what's up?

Speaker 4 (28:22):
What's up? C and R Hey hey man.

Speaker 7 (28:25):
I agree that it's trash man. I grew up with
DA wrestling because I'm from North Carolina, and then they.

Speaker 2 (28:33):
Were like Rick Flair and Dusty Rhodes and all those right.

Speaker 7 (28:37):
And if you want to really hear about the state
of wrestling, Jim Cornett has an incredible podcast because you know,
he was the manager of Midnight Express and he just
tells it like it is. It's garbage, Dude.

Speaker 3 (28:55):
I watched you know, how is his opinion any less
than yours? Well, alight, he's gonna like it well, and
it doesn't matter because there's plenty of people.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
That do like it, So who cares what that's You
can say it's like the NBA. Oh it's not what
it was. Well, I guess what. The ratings are bigger
than ever, you know, like it's with ratings.

Speaker 3 (29:12):
Well, I think our expectations have gone down as a society.
How many times do you come in here talking about
some new show. I tuned into that show and it
stinks to the high heavens, bro, you know, because your
because your expectations have.

Speaker 2 (29:23):
Been But you also glorify the past because there's so
much trash that's not true. You watched you know what
it would be like watching WrestleMania forty compared to something
we watch as a kid. You're like, oh, it's trash now.
Then you realize, oh, what we watch his kids was
even worse. It's like watching a sitcom from the eighties.
What I tried to forty year old dude? Know what
I tried to watch? Do you have any expectations? Know

(29:44):
what I tried to watch? Maybe a year ago. I
turned on an episode of a show I loved as
a kid. But you're a kid. You have no perspective.
You're a dummy. What's your excuse now? As an adult?
Do you not have adult perspective? I thought it was great.
I thought wrestlementing was okay. But you can't say when
we were kids. When we were kids, we were stupid.
Aren't you a little smarter now? When I was a kid,

(30:04):
I was the dumbest kid ever. I see you know what,
I I'm not at all.

Speaker 3 (30:08):
I'm not gonna argue you don't like anything as.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
A kid, is my point. I thought Balki was the
funniest dude on television exactly. But but what I'm saying
is the frick Strangers sucked it? Did? Would you watch
as an adult? So tell me that stuff's good now?
But when a guy like Mike calls up and he's like, oh,
it's trash now. It used to be better. Everyone thinks
it used to be better, And the reality is, most
of the time it wasn't better. It just wasn't.

Speaker 8 (30:33):
Hey.

Speaker 2 (30:34):
I'll tell you what.

Speaker 3 (30:34):
When I see some of the stuff that Logan Paul does,
or these acrobatic guys and the choreography, when I see that,
I'm highly impressed. When I see these lumbering jabebronis like
the mean event Saturday Night, there is nothing fun about that.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
Nothing nothing. Hey, did you enjoy? Who cares? Anthony?

Speaker 1 (30:56):
In LA?

Speaker 2 (30:57):
What's up?

Speaker 4 (30:57):
An?

Speaker 1 (31:01):
H With the Women's League coming up, They're definitely gonna
have to hype these women up.

Speaker 9 (31:06):
And I'm gonna I think they're gonna have to reach
into their pockets and and they're gonna have to advertise.

Speaker 10 (31:11):
And have to make commercials.

Speaker 8 (31:12):
They're gonna have to make it fun. You know.

Speaker 9 (31:14):
I want to I want to see this him versus
her kind of thing like they did in the All
Star Game, you know, with.

Speaker 7 (31:19):
The shooting skills and and I think if they make.

Speaker 10 (31:21):
It like that and they kind of team them up
with a couple of guys in the NBA and try
to make it a dual thing, I think.

Speaker 9 (31:27):
You can really catch the eyes of a lot of fans.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
I like that. I think, uh, Anthony, backtrack at the
last hour, we talked about. The true test is will
you care about Caitlyn Clark beyond now? And I think
there's no shame if you care about the bloodline, and
that's more exciting. I don't care what you said. I
enjoy care about uh, Dusty Rhodes's son. Then I think

(31:52):
you can care at least for one game and then
the rest is on them. I think there's there's no
shame in using the men's as a as an assist,
right like to me, no way to me. The only
way it catches on is if there is some big push.
And if there is some let's say there was a

(32:13):
two on two Steph Curry and Katelyn Clark against so
and so and Angel Reese or something. If they did
gimmicky stuff, I think he got a shot. I think
just presenting the w NBA as it's been presented, but
throwing like Caitlyn Clark and Angel Rees in the mix,
I think you your ratings go up a little bit.

Speaker 3 (32:32):
Back to WrestleMania forty storylines matter. You said, gimmicks, lean
into them.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
It works. That stuff works. Yeah, you may, you may
storylines leaning into these gimmicks. You may be the most
you know, Cavino sound like the most mature guy in
the world. But yeah, that's what's odd about it. But
because you know what, I'm the most immature guy. But
if I can't get into wrestling, Listen, some things are
just certain people. But Rich, if I that whole little
boy or a little girl, all that cared, Just like.

Speaker 3 (33:01):
You talk about blue all the time. You're a grown
ass man. You like that because your kids love it.
I'm sure it's quality. It's not my point. My point
is you like it because they like it. I'm not
saying never if I have a little kid and he's
into wrestling, you don't think all of a sudden, I'm
gonna be into it. Yeah, I'm sure I'll find the
joy in it, and I'll be able to put my

(33:23):
maturity at the door. I guess leave it there stage again.
Give me something else.

Speaker 2 (33:30):
You could tie the weekend altogether. You could tie Caitlin
Clark and WrestleMania together. In that storylines and drama well
and gimmicks will get eyeballs, whether it's women's basketball, whether
it's Kaitlin Clark needs a cool manager, Mister Food. She
needs she needs Paul Hayman. She needs you know she

(33:50):
needs someone hyping her up. But the point is, whether
it is wrestling or women's basketball, storylines always win. Why
why how does the NFL rule the world of sports?
Because every day there's a storyline about some player and
his team and someone's unhappy, someone's under delivering. Is this

(34:13):
quarterback getting paid too much? Is this There is always
a story. The NFL has countless storylines and gimmicks and
things going on WNBA. I think they need to not
make it, you know, yeah, make adjustments. I think they
need to figure out what do we do now. For

(34:34):
the first time ever, we have a graduating class that's
going to enter this WNBA league that for the most part,
people don't care much about. How do you get people
to care the way they've never cared before? Gimmicks, drama,
promotional social media really sell these personalities, Yes, rivalries like

(34:57):
you gotta do something because as of right now, on
one person and you get a market to younger people
future of the league. Danny g You know a ton
of people right that watch the women's NCUBA tournament. Yeah,
do you know anyone that regularly watches the w n
B A NAA. So with that said, that's the proof
in the pudding. I don't know what pudding, but the

(35:20):
point is, no one that I know regularly watches or
follows the w n b A. A lot of people
I know were very emotionally and visually interested in what
was going on with the Women's NCAA tournament. How do
you translate that? Break out the marketing directors, break out

(35:40):
the promotional people. Figure it out because you have an
opportunity that will not last for ever. Because if Katelee.

Speaker 3 (35:47):
Clark I would say, if you've got ideas keeping yourself,
you're not getting paid for it.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
INDI Ena Indiana fever in the NFL. I guarantee you
if you asked one hundred grown ups, what's the Indian
scene for that the Indiana No, I'm anti VAXX with
the INDIANAFA. Now, if you would have asked one hundred
people Steve Harvey style family feud, we asked one hundred people,

(36:14):
what is the name of the Indiana WNBA team. I
bet you're fifteen out of one hundred people would have known.

Speaker 4 (36:19):
This morning you called them the Sparks.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
I go one of the Indiana No, I mean that's
an LA team. No. People don't know, they know now
they step one. It takes that again, that one person
sometimes to get you to care.

Speaker 5 (36:33):
You're right about the marketing, though. Look at what's going
on with the Las Vegas Aces. They've sold out their tickets.
We were just in Vegas recently. You see billboards and
marketing all over the place. They've created a scene there
in the arena for those games. It starts right there.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
Danny G.

Speaker 3 (36:49):
Anytime someone brings up Bruno San Martino or some old
school wrestling guy, Rich couldn't give a Diddley squad about it.
It took Hulk Hogan and to tie it together. Is
Caitlyn Clark that person? It took Hogan and Andre the Giant.
Is Caitlyn Clark and someone in the WNBA already or

(37:11):
Angel Reese? Is that matchup still intriguing? Is that what
it takes?

Speaker 2 (37:14):
It took Magic and Larry Bird, right, people, It took
Magic Johnson Larry Bird to take the NBA to the
next level. The NBA, as people love to point out,
the NBA was on tape delay. Who was James? James
weren't always live the Gracie Brothers. If you watched Danny G,
you you grew up out here in La. You know
we're around the same age, you're a couple of years old.

Speaker 3 (37:36):
Is it Big Dan Severn in the UFC? Was it
the Ken Shamrocks of the world. I'm not sure who
it was, to be honest, maybe I chuckle with Dell.
Maybe you know who was it that put the organization
on their shoulders and made it something you had to
tune into. Is Caitlyn Clark that person? She was for

(37:56):
college basketball? Why wouldn't she be in the WNBA?

Speaker 2 (37:59):
Just that all right? Because the same way Zion was
must watch TV when his shoe was ripping a duke
and everyone loved him. M he fizzled in the NBA.
You'll you'll watch a Zion better competition game now, But
competitions better, it's not, you know, the domination isn't there
Again we discussed that first hour.

Speaker 3 (38:18):
Is the competition that strong in the w NBA where
it shuts down Caitlin Clark the way the NBA could
shut down a Zion that's yet to be seen.

Speaker 2 (38:27):
But let me ask you, I Danny g who grew
up out here in La. Now, I know Winning Time
on HBO was an exaggerated docu series not based on
all true events, but it was about the Lakers. We
loved it got canceled, but great show. We all watch it.
Correct that sentiment, Danny, that out here in La NBA
games are on tape delay. No one cared as much

(38:50):
as they wanted them to. Jerry Buss was almost losing
money like they were trouble times. And then Magic Johnson
and Larry Bird did they really I mean we were
little kids, But is the sentiment that they really did
change the game that much?

Speaker 5 (39:05):
The two of them changed the game, and then quickly
after that, Michael Jordan was the second.

Speaker 4 (39:10):
Tier of that.

Speaker 3 (39:11):
Dude, it just takes the right people. I think they
have it. It's how they market it. Hey, hip hop
existed before run DMC. It just took them to put
it into the stratosphere, to make it mainstream, to take
it next level, you know. So it takes those right
people at the right time. Takes one person and will

(39:32):
be tuning in. The thing is we will be tuning
in to the Indiana Fever for how long.

Speaker 2 (39:39):
That's on them. It's on them give us reason. So
it's like, you know, the world of sneakers. Right sneakers people,
the right people to wear your favorite pair people are wearing. Uh,
people were in Chuck Taylor's playing basketball and all of
a sudden, Michael Jordan and the you know again running Yeah,

(40:03):
they just say he decides to sign with some running
shoe company no one really cared for. And now we
saw that. You saw that chart. You ever see those
moving graphs on social media? I love I love moving graphs,
and it was the market share of sneakers and like
watching Nike come from like nothing to like well by
far like ridiculous. So hey, we'll see what happens.

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Speaker 2 (40:39):
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on Fox. We got Joel here, you got Kevin Wyrett.
Thank you guys for hanging out with us. Wherever you are,
whoever you are. Hopefully you're pumped about the big eclipse
in two hours away.

Speaker 4 (41:23):
Right?

Speaker 2 (41:23):
Are you more excited about the eclipse or National championship tonight?
Some people are you on? Some people are sewing to
the eclipse. I'm fascinating if you're driving, if you're driving
right now, to get to your point of totality, the
path of totality. I don't know what to tell you.
We're cut from a different cloth. But have fun, I
mean enjoy. People have their thing. You were here raving

(41:46):
about WrestleMania feedback, by the way, I split on that.
Some people are like, yeah, it's entertainment, it's fun, it's
bigger than ever. And some people are taking the Caveno
stance of it's wrestling. Grow up.

Speaker 3 (41:58):
I'm just saying I can't. I'm not mad at you
for liking it. I'm just saying I can't.

Speaker 2 (42:02):
I also found interesting someone's like you guys paid to
talk about this. I was finding funny when people think
we're told what to talk about.

Speaker 3 (42:11):
I wish we were paid to talk about something. Yeah,
they'll talk about you like what, though, you can talk
about what.

Speaker 2 (42:17):
Some great feedback on players you like that are on
teams you're supposed to hate. Tim hit Us up in Arizona,
huge Diamondbacks fan, but he said so hard to hate
Justin Turner when he was playing big for the Dodgers. Yeah,
Justin Turner, micable guy. Hard to hate them.

Speaker 3 (42:32):
Some people are just so likable and they step up
in big moments and it's okay to root for those people.
But again, this is based on a popular viral meme
over the weekend of players that you secretly f with.

Speaker 2 (42:46):
They're on your rival team, but you secretly f with them.

Speaker 3 (42:48):
We gave our examples wrapping it up with your phone
calls now at eight seven seven ninety nine ol Fox,
because we do have Rich's hockey experience to talk about.
You went to a hockey game over the weekend, Montages
one show and if you're excited about the eclipse later,
you gotta be excited about our giveaways. We're gonna play
some MLB trivia. This hour perfect for a CNR Covino

(43:11):
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Speaker 2 (43:22):
Zach hit us up and he goes huge Lions fan here,
much like Joel, big Lions fan said, but also a
Utah State football fan. So damn, I hate that. I
love Jordan love and he is now my biggest competition
as a as a Lions fan. So Zach, thank you
for checking us out. Mark says, as a Raiders fan
in high school, it was Jerry Rice and then he

(43:42):
became a Raider, which was awesome. That's always a great
feeling that guy on another team you like, we got him.
That's a cool feeling.

Speaker 4 (43:50):
That is.

Speaker 2 (43:52):
That for me was Johnny Damon. As a Dodgers fan,
Mike kid us up and said he's a Dodgers fan
loves Buster Posey back in the day and it was
hard hard to accept loving a San Francisco Giant. Also,
let's see Lakers fan love Karl Malone. Karl Malone's get
weird guy. And all the rest of your feedback will

(44:13):
go to Tiarso in Iowa, what's up tearsoh Hey, what's
up guys?

Speaker 1 (44:19):
Hey rich I'm also a big Niners fan, and you'll
probably follow me on this one.

Speaker 7 (44:24):
Yeah, I hated Richard Sherman.

Speaker 6 (44:27):
Oh yes, damn.

Speaker 1 (44:28):
I loved whenever he came to our team.

Speaker 9 (44:30):
Man like he got under my skin.

Speaker 7 (44:32):
But I loved him.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
You know that's a great And now you know he
does the podcast with Colin on his network and stuff.
Now I'm like, you know, Richard Truman's all forty nine
ers all day. But when he was calling Crabtree, sorry
I asked this and everything, I hated Richard Sherman and
then I loved them.

Speaker 3 (44:47):
That's a little opposite, kind of a different conversation. But
there's that thin line between love and Hey, if you
really despise somebody that much, that's because you're like a
banana peel and a footstep way of really loving them.
That fired up I think about it.

Speaker 2 (45:01):
So if a woman hates you but like like very much,
is like I don't like him, I hate him, she
might sort of be, you know, one move away from
really liking you. Love and hate thin line. Let's go
to Mo in Arizona, Mo. Thanks for hanging man, caven
On rich In for Dan Patrick.

Speaker 8 (45:19):
Thank you guys.

Speaker 2 (45:20):
What's up?

Speaker 8 (45:21):
As a lifelong Likeers fan? Uh, it was for me,
it was Tim Duncan.

Speaker 7 (45:26):
When the guy was so nice you couldn't even.

Speaker 2 (45:28):
Hate him when he beats you, that's a that's another one.
You're right. If the guy is such a nice dude.

Speaker 3 (45:33):
How could you not respect his fundamentals, the way he
played the game.

Speaker 2 (45:37):
Everything.

Speaker 3 (45:38):
But yeah, absolutely right, it's a good one. He's a good,
good one to root for, for sure.

Speaker 2 (45:42):
How about Bert in Miami?

Speaker 8 (45:44):
What up?

Speaker 2 (45:44):
Burt?

Speaker 4 (45:44):
Hey?

Speaker 2 (45:44):
Burt guy?

Speaker 10 (45:46):
That's it going?

Speaker 2 (45:47):
We're good man?

Speaker 10 (45:47):
Here are you can't complain for a Monday?

Speaker 2 (45:50):
What's your what's your example of a player you like that?

Speaker 10 (45:53):
Okay, listen to this. I want to die. I mean no,
I'm sixty one, so I've got the he was like
nine years old, So listen to this. I mean, how
could you hate David? I mean David Ortiz. He's a
nice guy, and he killed us in that playoff when
we were down, when we were up three zero and
they came back and swept us four three. I can't

(46:14):
I couldn't stand him. He was the biggest part of
that series. But then again, He's such a nice dude.
And I've let him before. I mean, I've seen him before.
How could you hate the guy? I don't know if
you guys agree.

Speaker 7 (46:25):
On that one.

Speaker 2 (46:25):
Never you know, when you watch baseball coverage now and
Big Poppy's on like the panel or something that what ever?
Never hated when he's sitting there with Kevin, Burkhard and
Jeter and you got, man, how do you like? How
do you dislike? Big Poppy? Likable?

Speaker 3 (46:38):
Wasn't one of my favorites, but man very hard to
not respect as clutch as he was and did it
with a smile.

Speaker 2 (46:45):
Got to respect the Poppy, yep, one legged Bama man.
What's up?

Speaker 4 (46:49):
Dude?

Speaker 2 (46:49):
Covino and Rich?

Speaker 4 (46:50):
Well up, young fellows, Yo, what up?

Speaker 7 (46:53):
I'm going old school?

Speaker 4 (46:55):
Go something old.

Speaker 2 (46:56):
You're an old fool? What's up?

Speaker 7 (46:59):
Uh? And I loved Otis Tyler and Willie was there
for the Chiefs and they're the biggest rivals.

Speaker 2 (47:07):
There's always going to be a guy on a team
that you hate, but deep down inside you're like, man,
I admire his game.

Speaker 3 (47:16):
Well, as Jim Lampley said on our show, and he
cried in the fight game too. You're watching rivals fall
in love. At the end of the day, they're there
to destroy one another, but they're falling in love as
each round goes by. And when you're watching these dudes
bring out the greatness in your team, maybe it's that
same effect, like you're really just falling in love with

(47:38):
them because you're seeing how great they are and how
much greatness they bring out. Like you could have hated
Caitlin Clark yesterday, but when you see how how much
greatness she brought out of her rivals just trying to
beat her, and how good South Carolina looked, you know,

(47:59):
maybe you learn to respect them. Yeah, that's how you
fall in love with these players. Yeah I didn't like them,
but man, they just brought out the best in us.
Let's say what's up to Jerry. We'll wrap it up
with Jerry. Jerry, what's up?

Speaker 2 (48:10):
Bud Florida? Hey, Jerry, Hey, come on the air. You
are on the air. What's up? Hell?

Speaker 8 (48:20):
I just want to say something about Katelyn Clark and
what I what I think something that's being not talked
about is yeah, she's a phenomenal basketball player. She transformed
the sport. But out of respect to all the other
women that came before her that did the same thing,
that were not white. She is a classic example of

(48:42):
white privilege and that.

Speaker 2 (48:44):
But what if people just don't forget race out of
this for one second. But if people don't resonate, there's
a lot of great people and they just don't resonate
for whatever reason. Right, people just couldn't get behind that player.
She's the one that people get behind. There's other dominant
white basket players and hey, women didn't make progress.

Speaker 3 (49:03):
Jill on Stanley when she was cutting down the net
last night, when she got on the podium, when she
was talking about her team.

Speaker 2 (49:09):
What'd she say? Thanks you Kaitlyn Clark.

Speaker 3 (49:11):
Thank you to Caitlyn Clark because she raised and elevated
the sport where it's never been elevated before.

Speaker 2 (49:17):
You know, you can't put your finger.

Speaker 3 (49:19):
On why there was, as Rich keeps saying, lightning in
the bottle, but there was.

Speaker 2 (49:25):
Yeah, go back to Jerry one of know what how Jerry?
I mean, some people just connect with the fan base
that you can't. You can't argue raising that sense.

Speaker 8 (49:37):
Well, I'm saying that again. She's a great player, she
got a lot for a sport.

Speaker 7 (49:42):
But out of.

Speaker 8 (49:42):
Respect for all the other women that did ultimately the
same thing, but.

Speaker 2 (49:48):
They didn't have the they didn't have the ratings. Jerry like, people.

Speaker 8 (49:51):
Watched Yeah, because she was built up. She's coming from
a state, for example, that's eighty percent white.

Speaker 2 (49:58):
Anyway, she was bill still whatever, she's still I mean,
you know, white or not. She broke a ton of records.
I mean, w NBA, NCAA women's basketball. It's it's not new.
This is the first time ever or maybe in a
long time, there were where people watch. Records were broken,
ratings shattered, old ratings. I mean, you can talk about

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these players and have respect, but the truth is, no
one cared about him to this level. Seems like pulling
race into it is is irrelevant if she just connected
with an audience, right, I mean, seems like a lot
of the African American players and coaches respected her. Seemed
that way to me me too. Uh, let's go to
Colin and Tampa. Colin, what's up?

Speaker 9 (50:39):
But I just want to go back to your last
segment about Kaylen Clark. Ye, how she changed the game. Yeah,
and so an example would be in the UFC, how
you know they had star power and they had you know,
greatness before that and crazy knockouts and stuff. But a
single guy and I changed it forever will always be

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Conor McGregor. His style is swaged his craft talk in
the press conferences. You got guys watching, you know, the
press conferences now with nobody, and it's just because of
what Connor did.

Speaker 2 (51:10):
So that's true. That's a that's a good one. And
you know what if you want to bring it back
to women who spilevated it, but UFC was posted, yeah, yeah,
but but he but he made press conferences and stuff
like that, next level exciting, like, oh, what's he gonna do? Hey,
I'm sure he brought in millions of new fans. But
you know, to quote Ronda Rousey, you know, if you
want to take women's sports into this, she's like she said,

(51:33):
Dana White didn't pay me and make me the headliner
because he felt bad for me. He was like, Oh,
the right thing to do for women. She's like, I
was who people want to watch. She sold pay per views.

Speaker 3 (51:46):
It was like, uh for me as a kid, that
was Nitro from American Gladiator.

Speaker 2 (51:50):
Oh you love Melibu, Oh your favorite gladiatorywhere? And cutting
it When I saw Nitro do what he did. Oh yeah,
on the gauntlet.

Speaker 3 (51:59):
Then you were asked when I was like, you know
what put it on the map.

Speaker 2 (52:03):
Now, well you know what. We can move on from
that the end stamp at your thoughts you at coven
On Rich, bring the love, bring the hate, bring the comments.

Speaker 3 (52:12):
Yeah, yeah, you could chime in with your answers again,
your secret lovers seeople you secretly with even though they
were on arrival. Everything at Covino en Rich. I know
you want to talk about montages and everything. Big game tonight, obviously.

Speaker 2 (52:28):
The ball is tipped there you all.

Speaker 3 (52:32):
I know you want to talk one shining moment, but uh,
I also want to hear about your hockey experience. And
we got to play our game and we got some
MLN trivia.

Speaker 2 (52:39):
I'll tell I'll tell you right now, Danny g let
me ask you when was the last time you went
to a hockey game.

Speaker 5 (52:45):
Oh, it was to see the La Kings. I want
to say five seasons ago.

Speaker 2 (52:52):
It's it's interesting because hockey fans have such a passion.
But I'll tell you that their blind spot, their blind
spot is just not believing sometimes that people just aren't
interested as much as they want you to be. You
talk to a diehard hockey fan, they'll argue to the death,

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hockey is the best.

Speaker 3 (53:18):
Hockey had us at Blades of Steel. They should have
marketed hard when we were kids, the Nintendo hockey. Two
medium guys, one skinny guy, what fat guy? You could
have pulled me in back then, and you blew it?

Speaker 2 (53:31):
Does it? I think regionally hockey has always been popular.
It just hockey never resonates as far as talk radio sports.
TV ratings just aren't there. Yeah, it just it it.
It doesn't deliver. So hockey fans are so adamant about Yeah,
you gotta talk more hockey.

Speaker 3 (53:51):
A you got the d he'd be watching it on
prime time. The proof is in where and when it airs. Again,
this sort of ties back to everything we've talked about today.
Where where's the interest level?

Speaker 2 (54:03):
What you know?

Speaker 3 (54:06):
I mean, there's a fan base, and there's a strong
there's a strong fan base. I just think that.

Speaker 2 (54:10):
It it it is, it's where it is. It's it
is where it is, and it's been there forever. Like
hockey will be a huge sport. But I don't think.
I don't think hockey is ever gonna be the NFL
or even the NBA or Major League Baseball. But I
went to a game this weekend. Hadn't been to a
hockey game forever. Let me tell you, the experience was fantastic.

(54:36):
Hockey fans are right when they say, hey, you want
to get more into hockey, start going to games, because
the game is a really legit experience. However, I'll make
one observation. Any hot women at the game some cuties,
some cuties. I will say the one thing that you

(54:56):
have to be really honest with yourself as to why
did I like this experience? And I think a lot
of it has to do with who are you with?
And of the seats good because if you're rolling with
good seats and people that you're having a fun time
talking to, And were you on edibles?

Speaker 3 (55:15):
Because I feel like your judgment is always kewed based
on that. I was not coming in and tell me
about this trash movie he watched, and I'm like, wait
a second, were you under the influence?

Speaker 2 (55:25):
Because that was terrible? No, I was not, But let
me tell you it's a great time. Hockey fun live.
Can't deny that. But I think so many times if
you gave someone almost like a VIP experience at any
sporting events or concert, you're gonna come away liking it more.
No matter what. There's no question those are two huge fans.

(55:48):
Like I mean, I know a company and the seats
might it might sound obvious, but if I said, hey,
you're not a basketball fan, come to a Lakers game
with me. Now, if I said, come to a Lakers
game with me and we're sitting in the top corner
of the arena looking down with uh, you know, wait,
sell Lebron down there, and you know you're sitting next

(56:12):
to a couple drunk idiots, and you're like, ah, here
we are versus Yo. We were courtside, We're like third row.
I could you know it was ten feet from my
Anthony Davis. Different experience, different experience. Always keep that.

Speaker 3 (56:29):
In mind, no matter I hate to sound like a caveman,
but you going to a hockey game. I want to
see a little maidlay?

Speaker 4 (56:37):
I do?

Speaker 2 (56:38):
Yeah, I do. I mean that's just part of it
for me.

Speaker 3 (56:40):
If I'm going to be there and you're selling it
that hard, I've been to a few hockey games, never
saw a fight.

Speaker 2 (56:47):
If I'm telling you right now, if you're trying to
sell someone, I'm like where's the fight, where's the action?
I've seen blades of steel. My lesson here is this.
If you're saying, where's Rich going with this? Right, where's
Rich going with this? It's a lesson everybody, and I'll
make a quick we'll move on. The lesson is if
you're trying to sell someone on something you love and
you want to introduce it to them, you must go

(57:10):
all out. If you're trying to introduce your WiFi to
country music, she's not a country girl. Come you know
you're your girlfriend likes country, but you do not.

Speaker 3 (57:18):
You gotta now sit them down to watch CMT Hardy
with Nickelback Live No aired last night.

Speaker 2 (57:25):
You gotta If you're going to a concert, you need
great seats. If you're trying to introduce someone and share
your love of the NBA with them or college hoops,
you gotta have great seats and a great experience. You
gotta really step it up. Because I thought about this.

(57:47):
Did I enjoy the La Kings Canucks game on Saturday
because I love hockey? Or did I like it because
I went with a couple guys that were funny, guys,
fun to hang with, and we were sitting like second
row from the glass and every you know, every five
minutes there's hockey players smashing against the glass five feet
from me. Of course I'm gonna think, wow, this is awesome.

(58:09):
You know, experience. I should go more hockey games. Trying
to sell your kid, you gotta give them that experience.
If you're taking your kid to their first ever Yankees game,
Cubs game, Red Sox game, Dodgers game, if you're like, son,
we're going on our first ball game, you might say, no,
keep your kid humble, upper deck alfield. No, you want

(58:30):
to keep your kid interested, save your money a little bit,
get field level seats.

Speaker 3 (58:36):
Get him that can be like, look there there's Freddy Freeman.
Get him, get him that helmet with the ice cream minute.

Speaker 2 (58:42):
It's just a reminder that your experience is solely based
on your your your takeaways are solely based on how
much they how much you were hooked up. That's a
concert game event, Danny g. You go to a club,
you wait in line for an hour, and it's you're
smushed with everyone. Compare that experience to someone walking you

(59:05):
in VIP and they're like, here's bottle service. Is your
impression of this club gonna be different.

Speaker 4 (59:10):
Of course, way different night. Nobody's stepping on your pumas.

Speaker 2 (59:13):
If you take a date to a If you take
a date to a Dodgers game and you're sitting eight
rows behind the Dodgers dugout and you're like, there he is,
look Mookie bets fifty feet from us versus yeah, we're in,
like we're in the alfield second tier. It just reminder.
So just if you're trying to sell a new woman

(59:34):
in your life, your kids, or someone on something, I
suggest going a little above and beyond, because if you
cheap out, they're not gonna have the passion you have.
All right, So you had a good time. I had
a great time, But I wonder how much of that
good time was the fact that great seats and stuff
like that play a role, a huge role, and I
think it's a huge role, all right, So your feedback.

(59:56):
We went to go see Lionel Messi when they when
he played against LAFC. We spent the first little bit
sitting in the press area with like an obstructed view. Sucked,
and then we wandered around the stadium and ended up
in this area we shouldn't have been in, but we
got in. Yeah, We're like in the VIP area and like,
I don't think we're supposed to be here, and no
one checked our bracelets. We felt cool and that was

(01:00:17):
all we did. We ate and drank for free and
had a vantage point. Free drinks always make you fure.
And then all a sudden, what was Givino saying?

Speaker 4 (01:00:23):
This is great?

Speaker 2 (01:00:24):
Best night I ever? Man? She got hooked up. Den
of mind all the time.

Speaker 1 (01:00:29):
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Speaker 3 (01:00:40):
It's Covino and rich In for Dan Patrick, The Dan
Patrick Patrick. So we'll be back tomorrow doing some NBA
trivia Shack Diesel NBA trivia for more prizes Manyana tomorrow morning,
and of course we'll be talking about Perdue Yukon for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:00:56):
So join us tomorrow morning. Well. I think there's two
types of people. You might say politics, rich No, no,
not talking about politics. You might say, uh, what is
he talking about? There's people that think one shining moment's awesome,
and there's people that think one shining moment is corny

(01:01:17):
as hell.

Speaker 3 (01:01:18):
I like winning, I like montages I like seeing people celebrate.
I'm just saying the song is a little dated. That's
nothing against Luther. There's a few versions of it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:29):
By the way, tonight, when this game wraps up and
this song comes on, there's gonna be a lot of
grown men with a little tear coming out of the
corner of their eye. I'm not judging. I'm just not
a fan of the song.

Speaker 9 (01:01:48):
There.

Speaker 2 (01:01:48):
You all have to like it.

Speaker 3 (01:01:53):
Yeah, Rich Radio chops it in the post for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:01:56):
Yeah. Now, I'll tell you what.

Speaker 3 (01:02:00):
You put anything to a song, it'll get you emotional.
Any slides show, well, you were a wedding to people
you don't even care about, and they show some sort
of slideshow montage, it'll it'll catch you.

Speaker 2 (01:02:15):
I've credit wedding, I've credit a wedding where I don't
care about the I agree. You throw some winning moments.
A rocky montage into this montage, it'll get you emotional.
A karate Kid montage, a Cowboys montage, Joel when they
lose any montage, good or bad. Who doesn't love a montage? Well, tonight,

(01:02:38):
it all culminates with Perdue and Yukon.

Speaker 3 (01:02:41):
Can I say the best montage ever isn't one you're
gonna see tonight. It's Rocky three, Rocky three, There's no
easy way out montage when he's looking in the rear
view mirror. He's like, absolutely, that's Rocky four. Oh, Rocky four. Yeah,
don't even know. You're right, it's no easy way out,
you know, because then I'm sure and Drago and everything else.

Speaker 4 (01:03:02):
Yeah, rock You know.

Speaker 5 (01:03:03):
There's also that montage when you're thrown away all your
ex girlfriend's pictures.

Speaker 3 (01:03:08):
That's one that's a tear dropper right there. You saw that, Joel.
I didn't know anyone saw that.

Speaker 2 (01:03:15):
So tonight Perdue Yukon Danny g Off there goes Yeah,
maybe you have some gambling insight. And you know what,
it's interesting because both teams have really sort of coasted
to this final game mostly. I mean, Yukon's a six
and a half point favorite tonight. But can we just

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quickly take you through their journey. Opening round they won
by thirty nine points over Stetson. Second round they won
by almost twenty over Northwestern. Then in the Sweet sixteen,
they beat San Diego State by thirty. Then they in
the Elite eight, they beat Illinois by twenty five and
then they beat Alabama by what seventeen? So I'm sorry,

(01:04:02):
Alabama by fourteen. So you got to ask yourself, Kavino,
does anyone beat Yukon. Zach Edy's got the goods. Purdue
they've sort of coasted as well, but it seems like
Yukon has really not even been challenged.

Speaker 3 (01:04:18):
That's six twenty tonight on the west side, nine to
twenty on the east.

Speaker 2 (01:04:23):
People about that. People on the East coast mad about
that late start.

Speaker 3 (01:04:27):
They have to be right, Yeah, I would say so, yeah,
you gotta stay up little later to watch this montage.
So I guess your money's on Yukon, is what you're saying.

Speaker 2 (01:04:34):
Rich. Yeah, I mean, listen, Zach Edy probably the most
notable player in men's college troops. But do you really
see Yukon losing? No, They've coasted like there was a minute.
You know, Cavino, I know you would have won the
Fox Sports Radio Bracket Challenge had Alabama one. I'm still

(01:04:57):
in first place because of the points. Yeah, because of
the points. Yeah, that's that's not gonna happen. You're done. Yeah,
you're not going to finish, but hey, for that moment
you were dang it.

Speaker 4 (01:05:08):
Westinghouse.

Speaker 2 (01:05:08):
You that was your one shining moment, but I was
doing well, Covino. There was a point that game in
the first half where it was back and forth, it
was tied up, it was going back, and then what
happened was like much like with South Carolina, over I
win the women's side, the better team will eventually pull
away well and then.

Speaker 3 (01:05:29):
History was made, though, because this is the first year
for a lot of people where they thought the women's
finals were more exciting than what we're getting tonight.

Speaker 2 (01:05:38):
I think we got I think I think the men's
rating ratings tonight will we'll beat the women's.

Speaker 3 (01:05:43):
But overall, it's a tournament. There's a huge sentiment that
for the first time in forever, for the first time.

Speaker 2 (01:05:49):
Ever, are you quoting Elsa who I was, Yes.

Speaker 3 (01:05:53):
But for the first time ever, people could say, yeah,
the women brought the excitement more than the guys did.

Speaker 2 (01:05:59):
And I'll tell you what, but I want to make
it very clear that's not pandering BS because there are
a lot of guys like, all right, guys, like, for real,
do you really feel that way? I really do? Well,
I do, And I'll tell you what I would not
lie to you, and be like man women's sports. I'm
really no. I've said earlier, I've never watched a WNBA
game in my life, but I'll tell you what. My

(01:06:19):
eyes were glued to the last few rounds of the
women's NCAA tournament. So, as we said in the first
hour of the show, can they somehow capture that lightning
in a bottle, that magic and get the eyes moving
over to the WNBA next year with people like Angel
Reese and Caitlin Clark and some of these star young women.

Speaker 3 (01:06:38):
Yeah, we talked about that in the first hour. If
you catch it on the podcast, we appreciate it. Against search,
Covino and Rich wherever you stream your podcast, CoV I O, Cavino.

Speaker 2 (01:06:48):
And Rich and Rich. We still have more radio. We
still got our Patreon it. Yeah, we're gonna go do
that and uh, we'll be back here for DP tomorrow.
I had one last talk Caveno if it's cool with you, sure,
And it has a lot of people talking about John
Powery moving on. And you know what it reminds me of.
It's uh, any time, whatever you do for a living,

(01:07:08):
if you feel like the writing's on the wall, like yeah,
I don't know if there's the place for me anymore.
If you get another job opportunity, you're doing everyone a favor.
You're doing your former employee of favor because it's like
they don't have to make a tough decision. And it
also gives you new life somewhere else, Like he's in
Arkansas now, he's bought himself at least five years of

(01:07:28):
Oh he could be he could build it up like no,
there's no pressure. I think it's a right move for everyone.
And I think you got to think about that in
your own life and your own business. If the writing's
on the wall, sometimes it's best you just move on
and you save everyone else to hassle or the struggle.
I like it.

Speaker 3 (01:07:43):
And tomorrow we're gonna talk about the worst neighbors ever,
so start thinking about it.

Speaker 2 (01:07:47):
Perfect. We'll see then or even there, you baby, see
you in the promised lane. Let your guys