The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Covino & Rich - New Sports Rivalries

Episode Date: June 20, 2025

C&R celebrate CRC live at Circa in Las Vegas. The benches clear in the Dodgers-Padres game & the guys love it! They discuss sports rivalries, old & new. C&R welcome the owner of Circa, Derek Stevens onto the show to get his sports takes and talk about his great casino/hotel and pool. Plus, the guys take calls about sports rivalries! Follow C&R on their Apple Podcast page: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/covino-rich/id1212071900See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Last night, I meet you at the airport. You and our buddy Shea, who works at Fox Sports Radio. You're sitting at the airport. And I look at the screen. I'm like, oh, yeah, NBA Finals. The Pacers forced in a game seven. Does that make Caliburton look like the G, even though he really didn't do that much?

He came out. It was the whole Daniel LaRuso is going to fight. Daniel is going to fight. Laced them up, and I think just his presence alone really sparked the team because they just wiped them out yesterday. They dominated that game. SGA didn't have a great game, and superstars always step up. I know that's the theory, that's the thought that when it comes down to a game seven, whoever has the best player, a lot of people say usually wins it, but the Pacers look strong yesterday.

And Halliburton didn't even play that much, but he was impactful. Yesterday, we talked about how the Pacers rarely lose back-to-back games. And with that crowd behind them and Hallie coming out the way, he did. And we said he would probably be a facilitator, which he was. That steel and that no-look pass to Siakum was insane. It was a poster moment. Oh, dude. Awesome. And by the way, the smoothest voice in radio. Let's give it up for Danny G. There he is, Danny J. Danie on the mic. And again, the phones are open, 87799 on Fox. What I thought was interesting is that this is the first game seven in 10 years, 2016. So it's been a minute since we've seen a game seven in the NBA

finals. So we get that Sunday night. And again, we have to wait so long. It's Friday, it's Saturday, Sunday. But you know what? That could mean a rested Halliburton and a real battle. Well, dude, that's the plus side here, too, because that gives him more chance to

heal up, make sure the calf is right. I don't think he overextended. He played with the spark and adrenaline. I think that rest benefits the Pacers moving forward, even though it's away. So, guys, your thoughts, let's open it up And, you know, keep this whole game and this whole series in mind because in a few minutes, we're going to talk about growing rivalries.

Yeah. Because I think even though it's not the greatest for ratings and there's a lack of star power, as people say, dude, we're going to a game seven. So, hey, if you're not vibing it, maybe you're just old. Maybe you're just not feeling it. But I'm telling you, this has been a great series so far. I know early to say it's a rivalry, but they all start somewhere, right? Right.

Like the Celtics Lakers rivalry started somewhere. every rivalry started somewhere but I think the question can be know could very well be can a new rivalry surpass an old one because when you think back think of your favorite team

did they always have the same rival big Mike who runs this place who Mike he was talking about the Reds and Dodgers were the legendary rivalry at one point you know old school organizations teams with history rivalries they sort of dwindle and fizzle after a while and

maybe we're seeing one grow here. Can it surpass, like Rich said, 87799 on Fox? Because as a Yankees fan, everybody knows the biggest rivalry is the Red Sox. But is it really the biggest rivalry? I feel like it's grown in the past few serieses. But that would be Siri.

Siri? Yeah. But, you know, up until... There used to be a bigger rivalry between your Yankees and my Dodgers. I was just going to say that, though, with the World Series last year, with the Interleague play.

Recently, I was at the game. But that was like a late 70s, early 80s, East Coast, West Coast Dodgers Yankees. And it took like a 40-year hiatus. Yeah, well, even prior to that going back to the East Coast. Yeah, but dude, that one I feel is stronger than Yankees Red Sox again. That one is back. And I even think the Yankees' Mets because of the Mets stealing Soto and all the animosity there. And the Mets are trying to prove they're the bigger team in New York.

They're not the Little Brother team. That builds a bigger rivalry to me than Yankees' Red. It sucks. So yeah, I think we could be seeing the start of something new here and something better. I think it can surpass Rich. The classic ones will always be classic, but there's room for new. I think what happens is your team has a rival. When one of those teams suck, you have to find the new rival. Right? Like, I'm a Mets fan. When the Mets were sucking, do you think the Braves were like, Mets are still our rivals? They're like, no, the Mets stink. So I think. How about this theory? If you don't have a rival, you sort of suck. because rivals push each other.

And if no one's pushing you, you're probably not that good. Like, you have to have someone after you, someone that you hate. It's great for ratings, great for drama, great for the fandom. It's great for pushing your team to the next level. We say it all the time. My favorite example, I do all this stuff on the history channel as we jokingly talk about. He's history boy. I'm history boy.

Look out for me Sunday nights. Hazardous history, new show. But every Coca-Cola needs their Pepsi, their Pepsi to push him further. every Muhammad Ali needs their Joe Frazier to push them further. If you don't have a rivalry, you're not bringing the best. That means no one cares about you. It's kind of like if you don't have haters, then you're not that dope. Yeah.

If you're in the entertainment world and no one hate you, so rivalries are a good thing. And we need to honestly start embracing that as sports fans, we just love drama. Because the biggest rivalry now is the Dodgers Padres. We're going to get to that. But to back up your point before we get to Dodgers Padres, because I think that's the hot story, right?

But what makes the WMBA have a heartbeat for the first time and ever, let's be honest. It's Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese, and it's people going after Caitlin Clark. But genuine heated rivalry. And it seems like there's players that genuinely don't like each other, and that is what they need. The key word there is genuinely, and think about that, Fox Sports Radio Nation, 87799 on Fox. Would you rather tune into a fight, a fight where people are buddy chummy and they have this sort of respect for each other? Yeah, that's great sportsmanship. But isn't it more intriguing when they genuinely hate each other?

When there's a pre-fight stare down at a press conference, and the fighters are like, yo, I hate that guy. It's so hard to tell which ones are real, though. Because we've even heard some of the boxers afterwards. Some of the events we've been to where they're like, yeah, I was playing it up. I don't hate them that much. Sometimes it's showmanship. We get all that.

But I'd rather see some showmanship than nothing at all, right? So again, we're Cabino Enrich live from Circus. stadium swim, celebrating the show's history, bringing the fun to you, but we do want to take phone calls. I want to give props back at the studio, Perfet, and Jay Stewart on the phones at 87799 on Fox. If you want to chime in,

because the question, the core of it, based on the NBA finals, game seven, based on Dodgers Padres, they're hitting each other, this animosity. We love the drama, we love the growing rivalry. Can the new rivalry surpass the classics? I think it could.

And I want to ask Jay Stu, because I know he's a big Dodgers fan like you. Jay Stu, thanks for hanging, brother. Do you... Hello, everybody. Do you look at this. Padres, Dodgers, hitting each other, benches clearing, Dave Roberts, pushing people.

This is, first of all, great for baseball. But do you look at the Dodgers Padres as now the hottest rivalry in Major League Baseball? I do. You know what? Just earlier this week, we had NFL draft analyst, Daniel Gettley Show, and I think he put it perfectly. I think it's the best matchup in baseball. baseball right now. But he was very

careful not to use the word rivalry, because we have a rival up north in San Francisco that goes back 130 years, and I consider just one rivalry per team. So I can't call it a rival. So you're saying great matchup. You know why? Because there's a younger generation that

sports, that everything is always marketing to. So that old school rivalry may sit in our hearts, but young people don't know diddly squat about it. So what they see is all they know. So if you young person is tuning in to see the Dodgers Padres and they're seeing the benches clear, that's what gets the headlines. And we need to embrace it and honestly just admit that we love this stuff.

Yeah. And this weekend, by the way, you know, I'm always going to bring it back to the Mets. When you think Mets, they're tied right now. Same exact record as the Phillies and they have a three-game set that starts today. Do you look at the Mets Phillies as a robbery or do you think Mets Braves or do you think Braves- or do you think Braves Phillies? Like, how do you look at it? I look at it like, again, almost the opposite of what J-S-2 said, but I love

his point because it makes you think, I think there's room for plenty. Do you have one person you hate or do you have multiple people to hate? So let's say the Orioles, you just hate it a little more. So let's say the Orioles are good for five years, five, six years. And the Yankees and Orioles are battling. Do the Orioles sort of step in if the socks are stinking at that time? Yes, I think it goes through cycles. It goes through phases.

I'm trying to think you're Mets though. Who's the biggest one right now? Because I would say Mets, I'd see Mets Phillies, believe it or not. I don't know why. That's the one I think of. Danny, does an L.A. guy, do you think Mets Phillies? or do you think Braves?

It has a tough one. Since I didn't grow up with those rivalries or rivalry, I'm not sure, but as far as the West Coast goes, as far as what Jay Stu is saying, I kind of agree that the Padres would like to be the Giants. They'd like to take their place as the Dodgers rival. No doubt. Let me ask you about this all started with those old white rappers,

Kavino likes to joke about. Remember, what was their rap that they were doing on morning show TV? That's what's in. Yeah. Those lameos on social media that we're trying to hype up the Padres. Yeah, and then there were parades through the streets because they made it to the playoffs, remember?

And then it's been this heated thing, especially with Machado. Tati's on the loose. What's up, Gush? That's what's it? Yeah. Social media does help build those rivalries and fan bases and people love it, man. And I think that's the core of the argument.

To count as a rivalry, does it have to go back X amount of years? And ask yourself this. Think of all your teams and all your sports. Danny, you're a big Raiders fan. Is it Chiefs? In our division, yes. Like, all right, I'm a Niners fan.

Is it, am I going to always be like, yo, damn Byer, your Seahawks, my Niners? Or do you say Niners Cowboys because of the history? Ooh. Like, I just feel like, Kavino's making the point that it could change. It could change because generations change. Teams change. Division sometimes, sometimes that team's no longer in the division.

But then again, I feel like the Bears, Packers, that's always going to be. Right. I mean, like I said, it's. It's a classic. Cardinals Cubs will always be a rivalry. Red Sox Yankees. But I think there's some that pop up once in a while because of some bad blood. And I know the Giants are playing great baseball.

But right now, even as a guy that doesn't care about the N.O. West, I am glued to Dodgers Padres. Dodgers' Padders, but keep in mind that the Giants just got that Devers move. Posey's talking a lot of smack. Devers is going to bring a lot more action to that rivalry. So look, I think there's room for plenty of them. your calls, your thoughts, and on a side note, on a side note, by the way, my dad is here. Let's give it up to Big Steve, everybody. Let's give it up to my parents.

My parents are at this party. Stadium swim. You kiss an ass in Vegas? I know. I got to say it is like a weird dream to see your parents' poolside in Vegas. There's like butt cheeks out and my parents hanging out. It's so weird. What's hanging out?

More, your parents or butt cheeks? Well, you know what it's like people watching in Vegas, right? And then you see that and you see your family. It's sort of a weird contrast, you know. But, hey, we're here celebrating and we're happy to be here with you. But the question at hand is when Dave Roberts puts in a rookie pitcher, right? Because Danny G. and I were sort of debating this. His whole thing is like, you think I'm going to have him throw with Tatis?

Yeah. I'm saying, yes. I think sometimes a manager says, hey, rookie, you want to earn your place on this team? You want to show us that you belong? You want to win over some... You see his reaction, though, when he hit Tatis Jr.? Maybe that's good acting. He's not that good of an actor.

You want to win over your teammates? Hit the guy. And it's almost like a Johnny Lawrence crease sort of thing. He's like, what do you mean hit the guy? Like, take him out. I think that's intentional. I think you tell the young player to earn his place on the team by hitting the star. These are old school baseball and things.

Why not hit Machado then? Because I think if you want to show that you belong and you got your team's back as the young guy. It's like being initiated in the gang. Like you got to prove yourself and I think by hitting Tatis it was intentional. I'm gonna take you back to that. And that's why I love the drama. I'm gonna take you back to the 90s. When Robin Ventura was told by his team, if Nolan Ryan hit you, you charge. And remember, no one Ryan was ready. Robin Ventura has said since like, I reluctantly, I did not want to charge and fight Nolan Ryan. But to earn the respect at the time, no one, and Ryan was a, you know, 40 years old.

And, you know, Robin Ventura was a young dude in baseball, but he had to do it. All right. So your thoughts, can new rivalries surpass the classics? Is there room for both? By the way. He says, hey, just one. You got to have one hated enemy. And do you think that was an intentional beanball yesterday to send a message?

I really believe the more I think about it, it was. And Dave Roberts, of course, is going to say, why would I do that? And when we see these highlights, we're here in Vegas, too, schmoozing. and boozing. When you see these things happening, it's so great for sports. And that's why the WNBA needs to also just lean into that every chance they get. We talked about it the other day. I know it's ugly and his fast sportsmanship, but it's great. Every Caitlin Clark, you know, eye poke or push to the floor is just good for the WMBA.

I was at LAX at my terminal and the center bar had the Dodgers game on a couple of screens. And you should have seen all of the L.A. Dodgers fans going nuts. Yeah, no doubt. during this game. It was crazy. It's a great rivalry. On a side note, seriously, I just got to piggyback with Danny G-Said. There's nothing more exciting than when the bench is clear.

I know it's like 90% of the time is corny and it ends up with just a little smack talk like, oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah. Have you seen some of the fan footage from like the first few rows? Yeah, yeah. On Instagram. When you see people come running off, you're like, oh, again, most of the time it's anti-climactic, but it still gets the adrenaline going. Dave Roberts was saying, I'm going to F you up in the tunnels.

You see, like, Dave Roberts was, he wanted to fight last night. So your thoughts on rivalries, start thinking about it, Fox Sports Radio Nation. You heard all angles here. What about the growing Dodgers Padres, the growing OKC Pacers rivalry? What are your thoughts on these things? And we're going to play a game, too, so start getting ready. It's a little twist. You know how we do Chipotle worker or WNBA player?

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This is our kickoff. We want to give away a Swiggy and some prizes. So stick around. We'll tell you when to call if you want to play our new game today. I don't know what's growing more. The Padres Dodgers rivalry or the line of people wanting to take a photo with your dad.

Oh, my God. Have you seen all the people? Everyone wants to take a selfie with big Steve. It's hilarious. Yeah, it's so weird, dude. Well, hey, we're in Vegas. If you're in the area, hey, I know Vegas is one of our big affiliates. Hey, we're at Circa pool party.

Let them know you're here for us. There's like hundreds of people hanging out by the broadcast booth. So come hang. Oh, and if you could just make it tonight, we'll be rooftop tonight. So, yeah, we're here all weekend. And if not this time, next time. But I want to hear from you guys, your thoughts on rivalries. We'll get ready for this game.

KD's in the news. And I got a bone to pick with Rich. I have a rivalry with Rich that I want to talk. talk about and a dress. This guy's heads up his ass. All right. So we'll do that. But we are live.

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We're alive from Stadium Swim, and we are live. We have a very special guest, but can we do a little CRC? CRC, CRC, uh-huh, wee-wee. C-R-C, CRC, oh, ho, wee, we, we. All right, thank you, guys. It's so cool to be here, guys. We have lots to get to. We have prizes to give away.

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This is a remarkable place, man. We've been to Vegas. This is my first time here, though. And it's everything and more. I got to ask Derek. I mean, we're at Stadium Swim. This is the most impressive setup I've ever seen. Do you, since you run this place,

do you ever just sit out here by yourself? and watch a game on the big TV? I do. I actually do. I'm not joking. I do. I love it. I mean, the way this thing came about was my wife loves, loves music, it loves going to day clubs. I love going to the day clubs. I love the sunshine. But every day club I went to had a little little TV

with what you know, I could be at one game. Yeah. Well, I like to bet on every game. So I figured if I ever had a chance to do something like this, we're going to build a big screen. This is 143 foot screen right here. Wow. You got odds boards. You get all the games on.

Like right now, we're just watching golf. We had a Cubs game on earlier. But tonight, you know, we're going to have everything. So, yeah, this is kind of exactly what I wanted to build. And we're in the Cabana now, and it's a perfect view for everybody. On a personal note, can I just say it puts a tingle in my radio broadcasting dingle to see our logo up there, too. Our logo up there with all the great games on these big screens. It is so impressive, man.

Yeah, Derek, we're just talking about sports rivalries. Have you been seeing what's going off to Padres and Dodgers? I think it's great for baseball. What's happening with Caitlin Clark, people roughing up. These things are great for sports, in my opinion. I agree. I mean, I grew up with the Midwest. I grew up with seeing Michigan, Ohio State as a great rivalry.

I got to see a lot of these great rivalries on television, you know, Yankees, Red Sox in the day. Yeah, this thing with the Dodgers and Padres, yeah, it's getting a little heated. It's a heck of a rivalry. You know, Padres, Padres had a good couple years here, but all of a sudden now it looks like, you know, the Dodgers pull it away and maybe the potteries might not even make the playoffs this year.

Derek Stevens, the owner of Circa. The question we were asking, too, can new rivalry rivalries surpass the classic ones? Oh, yeah, that's the great thing about sports. You don't know what rivalries are going to come to pass here. I mean, yeah, there's new rivalries being built every year, every season, every sport.

So I think we're seeing that a little bit more in hockey. I think we're seeing that in the NBA. Absolutely. There's always new rivalries and that's a fun part of be a fan. And what does that mean on the business side of things for you when there's great, you know, rivalries and fights and sports and things as a casino owner? Well, I love rivalries because it means people have opinions. And when people have opinions, it means they like to put a couple bucks down.

So I'm all about the handle and I'm all about getting people to have an interest. And I think everybody understands that I, that gambling, sports gambling is a good thing. I mean, it's good for the leagues, as good for the team owners, good for the players, it's good for the players unions. It's good for fans because you get a little, you're a little more invested in it. You put 20 bucks on a game. You're paying a little more attention. It's a little more fun. Yeah, Derek, the other day we were talking about, Troy Aikman came out and said, because there's so much sports wagering now and it's part of the mainstream, Fox Sports, we do, Draft Kings, other people do Fan Duel, BetMGM, all these different sites. They say the

refs and umps need to get it right. They owe it to the fans to get the calls right now. Yeah, I mean, I think, I think, you know, we saw WMBA coach talk about how all the athletics have gotten better and better, but maybe umpires and maybe the referees haven't kept up with that same pace, you know. I think what we're seeing in baseball, a lot more of the electric. Baseball, I think is doing a really good job. I think they're getting more, more of the decisions correct. And then with the challenge rule, it seems to work. Football is getting better. But I think you're right.

I think people need to have people, you don't want to get, you don't want to get, you know, don't want to have a bad beat. That was a referee induced bad beat. How wild was it for you to see the progression of where gambling has gone today in sports from taboo back in the day to embrace in the way we see it now? Yeah, you know, it's crazy. I own the AAA baseball team here in Vegas for six years, and we were the Las Vegas 51s. We were a, we were a AAA team. A couple of a couple years with the Dodgers. I had four years with the Blue Jays and then I sold the team. And at that point in time, that was like 2007 to 2012. You know, people that they thought, you know, Vegas would still never have a team.

Forget about football. Forget about baseball. We'll never happen, never happen. And boy, in a decade, things really changed. It all changed when the Golden Knights came here. And remember, all the skeptics said, hockey will never work in the desert. And it's become one of the most successful franchises. I think it's been sold out every game for the last, for the eight years they've been in existence.

And then when the Raiders came, that was the whole thing. That's when like, okay, you know, it's changed. But also realize, I mean, in every city in America, you're more than likely going to have a casino right next door to you. It's not like the old days, but the only place you could come to a casino was either Vegas or Atlantic City. Derek, I got to ask because not to kiss your asses. Kiss it ass, that's my dad's big hang up.

Kiss kiss, kiss, but let me tell you, when you guys design this place, it has the feel of the strip slightly off the strip. Like this place is by far the nicest place in downtown Las Vegas. Was the idea to make this place like the spot in downtown? Was that the initial thought? Yeah, I mean, a lot of things I want to do. I like downtown better. It's a strip. It's a fun vibe. I like it down here. Real estate was a little less expensive so I could afford to build something a little bit better. And I love

it down here. But you know, with Bill, stadium swim i wasn't trying to build the best pool in the downtown or the best pool in megas i was trying to create a destination that people would fly to uh i wanted to design something that i thought would be the best pool in history that had and on a saturday or sunday in september people understand this is where you're to watch every football game all that i'm waiting to do a cannonball as soon as this show though yeah by the way i got to i got to ask you about the circa survivor pool you got There's so many cool things. But just tell us about this one because I love me some NFL wagering.

So tell me how this is working out for you. It's good. Now, I'll tell you, we started off with circa million. That was about six years ago. And that's a traditional football handicapping contest where you pick five games against a spread every week. You pick, we have quarterly prizes. You have the prizes for the overall winner. And we guarantee $6 million in payouts in that contest.

It's $1,000 to enter. You got to enter in Las Vegas. But you can play from anywhere because proxies put your picks in for you. Matter of fact, like 95% of the participants don't even live in Nevada. They live throughout the country around the world. That's the traditional football contest. If we have more than $6 million of entries, all that money goes back into the pot. We don't take a rake.

So it's rake free. The next contest is called Circuit Survivor. We started that up a year later. That's the same thing, $1,000 to enter. And it's real simple. You just pick one game each week, no point spread. what the catch is though every week that goes by you can't you can't pick a team twice yeah so you have a smaller pool of who to pick from every week and you know at circuit we celebrate holidays so we consider

thanksgiving and christmas it's old week so you got to go 20 and oh to make it through the year last year we had we had 14,266 entrance so 14.2 million dollars and there were four entrants that made it the distance with 20-0. And they split up. They chopped up the 14.2 million. How amazing is that? This year, we're kicking it up a notch. So we're guaranteeing at least 15 million.

And I'm hoping we blow right through that for Circa Survivor. We're kicking off the weekend here at Circa, and we're hanging out with Derek Stevens, the owner of Circa. And it's not every day you have the owner of one of the coolest casinos on your show hanging out. So I got to ask you, much like sports, sports is competitive, life is competitive, business is competitive.

How do you get to this point, Derek? Is it like some sort of crazy tenacity you have? Are you a super competitive guy? How do you own a casino like this and live this sort of life? Yeah, you know, I'll tell you, when you get to ask that question like that, it tells you you've been around for a little while. I bought my first casino in 2006 right across the street, literally across the street here, 80 feet across Fremont Street,

called the Golden Gate, about 50% of it. It was single-digit millions. That's what it costs. And then we renovated it, added to, this little casino, it closed at 10 o'clock at night. Like the doors closed. Wow. And I figured, well, let's see if we can get people to show up between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.

And I kind of figured I had a free roll because how could I screw it up? There was nobody there to begin with. So we just tried a couple different things, start cranking some music and got some dancing girls in there. And all of a sudden, it took off. And it worked out pretty well. And then kind of parlayed that into buying Fitzgerald, which is now the D right down the block, a couple, couple blocks.

That worked out pretty good. And then somehow, after we got these two casinos under my belt, we developed a great team, had the ability to purchase up this city block that circus sits on. And I had a crazy idea of building a sports-oriented casino and just had a lot of ideas over the years. And then never really thought it would happen. But we went to Wall Street. We pitched them our idea. And somehow those lunatics loaned me the money.

And boom. I have one more question. Congrats on all your success, too. It's awesome. We're happy to be here. What's the wildest event or wildest game to watch here? What was the wildest scene that you had going on at Stadium Swim? I would say, is it a fight or is it football?

Like, what is it? I would say, yeah, I mean, we do massive crowds here. We do a deal with Dana White here. So this is the only place in Vegas. You can watch UFC. So we do that. But I would say there's a certain electricity that comes about. out here during Super Bowls or during the first week of March Madness.

Some of these March Madness upsets when you're sitting in the water and you get these upsets coming and the whole crowd just roars when there's an upset. It's pretty awesome. Speaking of the NFL, we'll be talking some quarterbacks later on in the show, right? There's a list that's out that's really controversial. We're going to talk about it on the show. Nice. Derek, we want to thank you. Thank you so much for hosting us here at Serka.

Appreciate you, man. I'll tell you what, you guys. Thank you very much. Look at this crowd you guys. We got a fun crowd. I love this. I mean, bringing everybody out to check out, Vegas. Thank you, man.

Oh, yeah. We can't wait. Thank you so much. See you guys. See you guys later out. Thank you, brother. Stevens, the owner of Circa. Again, live from Stadium, Swim.

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We got to come back. I hope this is the first of many events. And if you're listening at work at the office on your way home, we'll do it again. You got to come. What up, Iowa, Sam? Yo, I wanted to ask Iowa Sam because he's been to a Kavidon-Ritch event, but this is a party. Iowa, Sam, I feel like you're working the room. You have a fun or what?

I am having a great time. And I'm working the room and I'm losing my voice like pretty much all you guys here. Yeah. And he's running around so much. I think he's losing weight. I am losing water weight. Yeah, you're just sweating and all over the place. And we love having you, bro.

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show on radio live from Vegas. Do these new rivalries get you pumped up? Can they surpass the old ones? What do you think? What's up, Tony, in Virginia. How are you, bud? Hey, I'm well again. Thank you, fellas.

Sometimes the best rivalries are between cities. I was born and raised in Baltimore, and the Orioles lost to the Pirates twice in the World Series. The Steelers knocked out the Colt twice in the 70s. That carried on to the Ravens and Steelers, and I still think Ravens Steelers the best rivalry in the NFL. That's a damn good rivalry. So, yeah, sometimes it is just the city,

and you end up hating a city for that reason. I love that. I do. I don't like the ugly side of it when you're just a fan trying to go to a game, but when the teams don't like each other and, you know, you don't have, I love it. We live in L.A. now. I grew up in New York. Everything about Philadelphia is hateable to most.

Right. Right. I mean, if you're a New Yorker, you're like, oh, the Eagles, oh, the Phillies, oh, the Flyers, oh, the Sixers. Like, everything about Philadelphia to a New Yorker stinks. And that's the best part about it. Let's go to Jesse in Indiana. Jesse, you've got to be fired up, man. You get a game seven on Sunday night.

Oh, yeah. It's great to be here in Indiana. And Mike kind of goes with the Pacers. I got two for you once the Pacers. It's a new one, though. We've seen it two years in a row, Pacers, Nick. I mean, names, I mean, just the amount of aggression you see between each of those teams as they're going to try and play either in the finals like this year or to play the go and play the Celtics.

You know, it's a good point. It's a double-dusy because he kept Halliburton and the Pacers kept that. Pacers, Knicks rivalry in live. And I think by Halliburton, by Halliburton paying tribute to Reggie Miller and doing the choke thing. It was so hateable. It was the way of doubling down on like, hey, remember our rivalry? It's back.

Remember that luckiest shot we've ever seen of all time? Yeah. I think, yeah, they're doing a great job of just stirring it up. Great call, man. Thank you guys for hanging out with us. We'll take more phone calls, 87799 on Fox. Now, we sort of referenced it before. We're going to give away prizes.

We're going to play some games. but I have a lame question to ask Do you have to coordinate with your buds when you're going to parties or events? Yeah, because I wore a black tank top thinking what's the chances of Kavino wearing a black shirt? He's wearing a black sleeve shirt.

I'm wearing a black shirt. He looked like we're in like a music group or something. But it happens so often and so many times that it has to be addressed. Like as buds and boys, do you have to... It sounds like it's a girl thing or a woman thing, but do buddies have to coordinate these things to not look like fools?

We look like two fools right now We're in the same outfit No, you guys are fine You think so? No, it's not okay You two look like you're part of some show Yeah, it looks like we're being advertised here at Circa Because it looks like we coordinated that

And that's not at all Like you're about to dance on sprockets together We did a speaking engagement for Iheart in Chicago We both showed up with a black t-shirt And like a green like jacket, same exact thing I looked at me like what are we doing? Company man All right, well, your thoughts.

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