The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Hour 1 - The Paul's Elevate & The Gains Stifle

Episode Date: January 29, 2025

C&R have fun talking Pod & Uber ratings! They have a Chiefs/"rigged" follow-up. There's a big Paul brothers rumor & the guys explain how this could elevate boxing! Rich has an NFL question about wealthy celebrities & the NBA's timing. Plus, "the Gain-stifler" & green M&Ms!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Oh, hello. Hey, that's us. How cool is that? We have our own intro and everything. How are you? What about those lofos? What about Danny G? On the phone, super producing.

What about Danny G? 87799 on Fox. Iowa, Sam. I just felt that Iowa, Sam gets perms. That's true. Yeah, he asks. The Paul O'Neill when he goes to the barber. He asks, you know what he says?

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Spot is here. Thank you, Fox Sports Radio Nation for being here. Let's rock out. Lots of NFL. Lots of nonsense. There's an announcement in the fight world that's getting a lot of headlines today. Yeah, I can't believe DB didn't announce it in his news alerts. So we'll get to all.

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So wherever you get your podcast, just rate, review, and follow. Five stars, please. Thank you. And we're also playing some games today. So stick around for that. Your chance to win a Swiggy. You got the Swaggy, our stainless steel, CNNR and FSR water bottle. We're doing Showtime. Mahomes Trivia.

Mahomes, broke Mahomes is stopping by to ask some questions. Can't wait. And it's going to be multiple choice, your chance to win a prize. Here on the show, we do it every Tuesday. Speaking of five stars, do you ever give anyone less than five stars, Uber, grubhub, anything? Do you give real ratings or you just kind and say, ah, five stars? Did you see recently? I think Barstole did it where they had like the Hall of Fame of Delivery drivers.

I saw a dudes that had like 20,000 deliveries and they're a perfect score. I saw a young Jeff Dunham on Star Search. I gave him three and three quarter stars. Yeah. So I mean, but that was me personally. It's a long time ago. That's a long time ago. You and Ed McMahon.

How do you like that Star Search reference, by the way? Good one. Yeah. Anyway. It's like our overall podcast rating, a six out of a five. I don't know how we did it. You know, Danny. It is funny because there are some people.

You've got to be such a grinch to give somebody a five. Like, did they say something about, I mean less than a five? Yeah. They say something about your mama. Did they not have the charger of your liking in the Uber? Like what was going on? Farting the whole time? Unsafe driving.

If you feel like your life's in danger. Oh, I found the stickler. There he is Mr. Grunty. I give a lot of, I give mostly five stars. But I'm saying if they put your life in danger, okay, that's fair. It's either five or I abstain. Yeah, no rating at all. It's like, I'm not a tattletail.

I'm not a snitch. If I hate you, I'm not even going to... I'm not going to say anything. You don't have something good to say. Don't say it at all. There you go. You ever ordered a car, though, and you get in and the inside's dirty? The seat's kind of sticky.

Let me tell you, Danny, Jay. And by the way, thank you, cheese steak, Sammy. I forgot your name. Cheezsteak Sammy was right. Cheesesteak Sammy was right. In that case, Danny, and it happens, you know, I won't leave a rating. I'm just like, eh, you know. I don't want to mess.

with someone's livelihood. But then again, if they suck, isn't it your job to pass along there, suck? I was in Jersey. I was in Jersey doing an event for Sirius XM. If you remember, I did the show from your mom's house.

I remember. Whoa. You did our house. Yeah, my dad was there too, guys, relax. And your dad's house. I wasn't just like cuddling with Steve's mom. Yeah, I did the show from your mom's house. Yeah, did the show from your mom's bedroom.

Yeah. So I was in Jersey and, you know, Camino and I've known each other 20 years. That's when I did the show from your family's house. I remember. I took an Uber from the event I hosted. to your folks' house. It smelled like this old hag

smoked pack after pack of cigarettes, and that was a part of me that almost... Be sure and tell them large March since you. Who picked you up to sea hag? Honestly, it was a woman that looked like... Be sure and tell them large marge sent you. Remember the woman that was dishing out sloppy Joe's and Billy Madison?

Exxed. How you boys like them sloppy? Lobby. She's driving Uber. now? Do you want some more sloppies? I was saying, I swear. I love that voice.

The woman who is, want some more sloppy. You want some more sloppy? That woman was driving an Uber in New Jersey, and she picked me up, and it smelled like your grandpa's car in 1987 when he just smoked in the car with the windows up. Rancid. Your Oldsmobile Cutless Sierra. Dude, you know, and your seatbelt was his arm. I call that scent Rancid Hobo ass.

So it smelled like rancid hobo ass. and I was like, am I being a diva if I deny this ride? I took it and I felt the whole time like, oh, gross. Hobo. Do you decline that ride? If an Uber or a lift pulls up. I mean, if you have time to spare, otherwise I'm getting in. But if we don't get into the big story at hand, we're going to get three stars and we don't want that.

Oh, is it that Dean Blandino had actually come out and say the refs aren't favoring the chiefs? The fact that officials in the NFL and, you know, experts are having to say, Hey, guys, we got a lot of feedback on that yesterday. When we went over the games from the weekend and we went over things that made you go, hmm, and you could hear it all on the podcast, search Covino and Rich. And again, five stars, nothing less. I don't know, guys. Maybe four.

Don't hold our bad jokes and Uber stories against us. Five stars only. We'll see how you do today. There was a lot of people that hit us up. and they do believe that these games aren't necessarily rigged, but the reps are giving advantages. And a lot of the feedback did make sense. And I was thinking it.

It's like, well, we can't turn a complete blind eye to the possibility because we saw it in the NBA. The Tim Donahy story is real. That's a real story to pretend like it's impossible is also foolish. So I don't think games are rigged. Do I think people can be paid off and is possible that calls are going their way? Yeah, I do think it's possible because we saw it on a very high level already. That's a true story.

But if the country was rooting for the bills... Rich was very much dismissing and dismissive of the whole fixed and rigged sentiment yesterday. I don't know. It's like a lot of feedback. It's like people that think all these secrets are being kept from us. People have big mouths. Everyone's spilling the tea and their gossip girls. Listen, I very rarely think conspiracies are real because I think if there was any truth behind it,

People are such, honestly, sleuths? That's big mouths that you want to be able to keep big secrets. And by the way, most of the country was rooting for the bills. But you say, well, what does the NFL get out of the Chiefs?

I get to Taylor Swift, the 3P, audience size, but I don't know. There's not a party of the things people would have been more stoked about Bill's Eagles. Is it that much to gain from the Chiefs in the Super Bowl? Is Taylor Swift's face pop it up a few times? I mean, you don't, that's assuming the money's coming

from the NFL. Who knows where it's coming from. Well, by the way, just I'm sure DB pointed out earlier in one of his updates, a record-setting number of viewers. Do you see this number? It's absurd.

This is like old-school TV numbers when people watch MASH. This is numbers when people watch the Friends finale. Almost 60 million people watch the AFC Championship. Yeah, that does sound insane. That's a number we haven't heard in a long time.

When you think about that number, That's sort of like the Seinfeld finale. That's like, like I said, when your family all gathered in the 80s or 90s, before DVR, before all these streaming things, when a finale of a big show was on, that's like... It's like that one time I watched Friends. I remember they played Hubasank in the finale. Did she get off the plane?

Did she get off the plane? I got off the plane. I remember I went to a friend's party. I'm like, I don't know. I'm kind of glad you guys are not my friends. This party sucks. Didn't you say you like the Spanish version better anyway? I like the Telemundo version.

Amigos? Yeah, way better, guys. Wait, you went to a friends party or a friend's party? A friends finale party with some friends. But not your friends? Some friends I hadn't talked to since then. So, hey, we got to get into other stuff here on the show. And we're going to Showtime of Homes trivia.

Carl Anthony Towns in the news. There's an update. There's a stat on closed captioning that might blow your mind. but one of the most random stories, and I was joking when I said it, I said Dan Byer didn't even bring it up. It's because it's not really news, but it is. There's a rumor, and it seems to be official. I mean, they posted it.

I know, you know. But again, you don't know what's just an attention grab or what or what could fall through the cracks or contracts fall out. It happens in fighting all the time. But the announcement was made today that sometime in March, around March 27th, in fact, on HBO Max, you're going to watch two brothers go toe to toe head to head. Jake Paul versus Logan Paul.

And you may say, wow. Now they're sort of marketing this as the fight you waited 10 years to see. I don't know about that. Ten years. A few years, though. I've thought about the possibilities. Like, that'd be cool if they fought. But I think this is kind of exciting.

And here's why. The biggest criticism about fighting and boxing especially is that you don't get the matchups that you want. The Klitsko's never fought, right? Because they made that promise to their mom. We'll never fight each other. And they sort of ran the heavyweight division, sort of ruined the heavyweight division for a good 10 plus years. Because they wouldn't fight each other and they held the belts and all that stuff. You get Canellos who don't want to fight the Crawfords.

You get all these people who don't want to fight each other for contractual rules. reasons or to keep that all going as long as they can. And a lot of times the fight happens when it's too late. After the fact, like Pacchio Mayweather did eventually happen, but as we said, like 10 years too late. So many people speculate would the fight have been, in fact, I saw this yesterday on a website. Would it have been a different outcome if it was five years earlier? Maybe, right?

You want them when they matter. If the Palm Brothers are willing to put all pride aside and fight each other for our entertainment and of course to make lots of money because there's intrigue there isn't that embarrassing for actual prize fighting the real price fighting when you can't even get the fights you want yet these brothers are willing to fight each other honestly i think it lights a fire under other promoters and lights a fire under other boxers to be like yo we're willing to fight each other you guys and you guys aren't willing to fight what's the excuse dude i i got to give my wife credit where credits do rewind for a second

to what? The last five years maybe? The year was 20, 20. Maybe. I remember my wife was like, looking at social media all intrigued about some story. I'm like, what, babe, what are you giggling about over there? She's like, we got to rent this. I'm like, rent what? She's like, it's 10 bucks. One of the Paul brothers is fighting this dude KSI. Yeah, I remember I remember how stupid I thought that was. And I remember my wife being like, babe, we should watch. I'm like, my wife's intrigued to watch a random, YouTube fight on Saturday? If my wife wants to watch a fight, I'm down.

And my wife's like, I promise you, social media is like buzzing about this. And I took my wife's lead. And I remember watching it, tell him, Kvinna, like, yo, dude, one of the Paul brothers fought, another influencer, it was actually really entertaining. And look where that went, right? And that was step one.

It was. In what we now consider. These spectacles. The premier fights. Right. Logan Paul, Jake Paul. It was a YouTube event. is going to be significantly bigger.

It would be huge. It's embarrassing to say this, but far bigger than Ousik Fury, far bigger than Canello or whoever he's fighting next, far bigger than any of these fights, we should either embrace it or be ashamed or both. And what makes this work and makes it more fun is that they do take it serious, right? They are working on their fight game. They are big names.

They're great promoters. If you don't like them, you don't have to like them. If you don't respect their skill, you don't have to. We can all agree that they're great promoters. And here's why I think it's a positive. Again, I think it lights the fire and lights the flame under these, quote, unquote, real fighter's asses to get in the ring and get it going. If two brothers are willing to fight, and I don't think it's some sort of exhibition, I don't. You know, that's the other thing.

Oh, it's all fake anyway. I don't believe that. I believe that these guys are too prideful. They've been competitive their whole life. I think there's so much brotherly animosity on the line. They've always been at each other's throat. I would love to see it. I haven't waited 10 years to see it.

But again, it ignites the fighters out there who were refusing to fight other great fighters because they're holding out or they're scared. Like Rich, we'll be in Vegas this Friday, in fact, bringing it to you live from Benavita's fight, right? Benevita's moral. Now, for years we've been wanting Benavitas to fight Canelo Alvarez. We can't get that fight to happen. There's so many reasons why I get it, money, contractual issues. but really if they wanted to make it happen, they would make it happen.

But no one wants to put their pride on the line like that. I know it sounds difficult, but if, let's say Danny G. and I are fighters. Yeah. I was like, yo, dude, I want to fight you. And if he was like, fine, I want to fight you. It would happen. Exactly. If they wanted to make it happen, it would happen.

But is Canello scared of him? No, but is Canelo thinking a bigger Benavita is the Mexican monster is a risk and not worth the reward. Maybe, who knows? I think Canello would light him up, to be honest. Well, maybe talk to Benavitas this weekend, in fact. Yeah, and it's the fight we've heard Tyson say that he has wanted to see. I want to see the Mexican monster.

He calls Benavita's the Mexican monster. Mexican monster, Canelo. If not, if not, I want to see Terence Crawford. Maybe we'll get the Crawford fight. But again, that's the biggest criticism. We're not getting the fights when we want them. We're not getting the fights we want. So, maybe if two brothers are willing

to fight, it embarrasses these boxers to want to make these real enticing fights happen. Sometimes you need that in life, that extra kick in the ass, that reminder to just to take things next level. I'll give you like a personal stupid example. I was going to say I have a real life example when you don't pivot the right way. Blockbuster. Blockbuster right now could own the world. If Blockbuster had pivoted and said, we're going to really lean into.

streaming. We'd all be streaming all these shows on Blockbuster on our TVs. Could have been Blockbuster. Blockbuster said, nah, we're going to double down on no late fees. And we're fine with DVDs and Blu-rays. And Netflix at one point even said, do you want to buy us for $50 million? And Blockbuster said, no, we're good. That's what the fight game has done. Netflix, let's be honest, are these influencers coming in giving the fans what they want? And real boxers are becoming blockbuster.

Yeah, no, for real. So again, I hope we reap the benefits of these spectacles and the Paul brothers fighting. So what I was thinking, too, is like there's outside influences sometimes that motivate you. And it shouldn't have to come to that, but sometimes it does.

It could be a threat from your wife, right? Like all of a sudden you're getting lazy in your relationship. Some dude at the office gave her flowers. Man, that might motivate you to step your game up a little bit. Uh-oh, right? I remember a personal example of my parents. I had worked in New York City at Sirius XM and SNY for years. And we welcomed everybody to our studios.

It was a fun place to come to. It was like going on a school trip. Come see where we work. Everybody under the moon had come and visited us and watched us do our show live, celebrities would be there. My parents didn't come ever. We live about 15, 20 minutes away in Jersey.

They never once in 17 years came to visit me at the office. One day my barber showed up. He was like an 80-year-old Italian guy. And my barber showed up just to be like, hey, oh, I wanted to see what I did. My barber Luigi. This was around the time we were officially moving the show from New York to L.A.

So a lot of random friends like, hey, before you guys move, I'm going to take you up on it. Let me see the studios. Let's come up to the city. We'll come see the studios. My barber Luigi and a few people at the shop came to visit us and they saw us do our show. And my parents were sitting there listening like, dang, even the local barber went to visit them. I guess we got to go.

And they came and finally came and surprised me in the studio. It was awesome. Hey, oh my God. To see my parents there for the first time. And, you know, 17 years. Random example. But my dad will tell you, once he heard Luigi up there in the studio, He's like, damn, his own father hasn't come and seen him, but his barber went, now I got to go.

That ignited the fire and ignited the flame for my dad to just take a trip to see us broadcast live in New York for one of the last times. If this gets the fights that we want to happen in actual boxing and UFC and so on and so on, then you know what? I'm all for it because the Paul brothers are putting their huevos on the line for our viewing pleasure. I think I can only respect that is what I'm trying to say. You could hate the Paul brothers and the spectacle fights, Tyson, Jake Paul. There's a lot of fun. People got together and watched. And if that, if that, you said, lights of fire under the ass.

I got another one. I got another example. Or if it, you know, really. It shouldn't have to come to that. But how many people let their landscaping fail, their front lawn looks like as streaks, right? But just because their neighbor did some cool new design and hired a landscape or something, and now your place looks like ass. So now you're forced to what?

Oh, man, I guess I got to step my game. No joke. When we moved in, we did a whole rental of our house. They got all this curb appeal, and now we're bringing down the property value. My next door neighbor was like, oh, we love what you did the place. Hey, you know what? What's your contractor's number? We feel like we should be doing something now.

You're right. These things are catalyst. So, long story short, if the Paul brothers are willing to fight each other. And if they're entertaining enough what we'll watch, hopefully that will be the spark or the catalyst to get Canelo, Benavitos, Crawford, all these guys to take on the fights the fans want to see. Because if they're going to be outdone by YouTubers, that is the weakest. Yeah, so that's really my takeaway from it.

I'm like, you got two brothers willing to fight each other from the millions of people. That takes a set, man. Set of cajones and you got to respect it. So that's the update. Is it going to happen? That's they're saying March 27th, HBO Max. Jake Paul versus Rand Paul. I mean,

Chris Paul. I mean, Rupol. I mean, Aaron Paul. I mean. How many Pauls are there? Ron Paul. His father. How do you?

What an not really that popular name to have so many celebrities, right? Aaron Paul, Jake Paul, Rand Paul. Ron Paul. Chris Paul, Rupal. RuPaul. So Jake versus Logan Paul, March 27th, HBO Max. That's what they're saying as of now. And as a fight fan.

Again, I'm hoping for greater things as a. result. John Paul the second. Now, you got to work. You better work. You got RuPaul's going to bring him down to the ring. Now there's a stat about closed captioning, not subtitles. There's a difference. We'll explain that too. And we'll get to it next. We got more Covino and Rich and your phone calls and feedback at 87799 on Fox. All right. Now, we are not TV weathermen, but we know about driving in winter conditions. Covino's a Jersey guy. I'm from New York. We're out here in L.A. It's all sunshiny, except for the fires.

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We just contributed to it. We're the first people to do podcasts. Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts throughout there. But this one's extra special. So how did we actually come up with a name, Hey Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember. I think it was on a call about what we should call it. Oh, we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band.

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trivia. Broke Mahomes will be here giving away prizes. Iowa Sam DB's got your updates in a few minutes but like we said before I just want to say it again this weekend we're heading to Vegas for a big fight. I'm pumped about it. Yeah.

It's Benavides Moral again WBC Light Heavyweight Championship El Monstro Benavitas the Mexican monster in an all Mexican card. I'm pumped about this fight but would you Brandon. The Heartbreaker Figueroa

The defense's title against Stephen Fulton. I'm sure Moral doesn't want to hear this, but is this considered a tune-up for Benavides if he were to get Canello? It is, but it's still going to be a tough fight. Pitbull Cruz is fighting. We're going to be there bringing it to you live. Interviews on

Friday. So join us Friday from Vegas leading into the fight, and then we head straight to New Orleans for a week of Super Bowl fun here on Fox Sports Radio Covino and Rich. Right now, in Los Angeles, live the Tyrak.com studio. Rapid radios are the walkie talking for the playoffs. Rapid radio. Push to talk offering national LTE coverage and no subscription ever.

Perfect for instant contact with your friends. We use them on the show. We'll use them in Vegas. We'll use them at the Super Bowl. Go to rapid radios.com now for up to 60% off and free shipping. Now, I got an NFL question. Talk a little Super Bowl. And then I know we're going to get to a study of how you as an old-ass dude or a young guy or an old woman. your sports is a new theory, but I saw that the game tickets, Eagles, Chiefs, not going to hit an all-time high. They're wondering, will the game, will halftime break records? I'm going to say absolutely not also.

Because my thoughts on Kedric Lamar, big star, but not the mass appeal that will break a half-time record, not a Katie Perry or a Beyonce or someone that would break a record. But I still think, you. Did your mom know who Kendrick Lamar is? No. She knows who Beyonce is. But maybe the NFL doesn't care about what my mom thinks. No, but what I'm saying is I don't think records will be broke.

However, they're saying record numbers for the price of some of the sweets at the stadium. So here's the dumb question I have for you. If Taylor Swift apparently is responsible for what were the numbers being thrown around last year's spot, she generated tens of millions of dollars to the NFL? Sounds right. Like 50, 60 million. if Taylor Swift's, just her presence, just her being there and all these youngsters that are like, Taylor Swift, who's her guy, go chiefs? If she's really generating.

Barf. Tens of millions of dollars. I agree. Double barf. Makes me want to puke. If she really is helping to generate tens of millions of dollars for the NFL. I'm not barfing, for the record. I'm not barfing at their relationship and love story or even her.

It's the people that are just tuning in because of her. Yeah, no, of course. And Rich, a bigger number, actually. Front Office sports recently reported, Swift has created a brand value of $331.5 million. What? No way. For the Chiefs in the NFL, citing data from Apex Marketing Group says this data

accounted for print, digital radio TV highlights, social media monitoring, Swift since she attended her first Chiefs game. Bro, what Taylor Swift has done for the Chiefs in the NFL, I'm not even joking. It's comparable to what Otani did with Japanese fans for the Dodgers. It's absurd. So if you're talking about Taylor Swift, bringing in that type of money, and of course they showcase her.

I equally get annoyed of people that hate when they show her. It's like you don't expect them at least a couple times. No, it's just so predictable because you know what it's coming, right? But now it's normal because if Travis Kelsey has a big play, why would they not? You would if you were the camera guy? Rich. Get Caitlin Clark up there again.

I'm not mad. Look, you think I'm mad at it. Even more ratings. That was gross. I think if you're that angry about these things, you need to talk to somebody. They have nothing in common other than they're both popular. No, Kaelin Clark's a huge chiefs fan, so there you go, Rich. Okay, there you go.

All right, maybe you are right. But anyway, thank you. So I- He's just a Caitlin Clark stalker. I equally... I'm not that guy. I equally am annoyed by the guys that like, stop showing her. But here's my dumb question.

Let me get to the point. Should Taylor Swift have to pay for her suite? Because if she really is generating... hundreds of millions of dollars, then shouldn't it be like, Miss Swift, right this way? She's also generating billions of dollars for herself. So is it really that big of a deal? If she pays for it?

We would be the first to see at big events we've covered. Who gets all the freebies? Rich people. Rich people. Speaking of rich people. What I'm saying is, if you see you go to the Grammys, the Oscars, the ESPs,

any award show, who gets the swag bags worth thousands, and, you know, thousands. The people that don't need it, rich people. You know what that's called kissing ass? So what I'm saying is, I wonder, will Taylor Swift have to pay for a suite? Or is it almost like, y'all, Taylor, thank you. Sweets are going up to $3 million a suite at this point.

It's crazy. According to an article that I read, I forget where it was, might have been, what's the name of that? Article, you read, you only do hidden pictures. Is that TikTok? I think I read it on TikTok. No, I think it was like TMZ Sports or something. We don't saw it in Highlights Magazine at the dentist. There's 165 recently renovated seating areas for rich people, and these boxes serve 20 to 45 people.

So they're 20 to 45 person boxes, starting at $500,000, up to $200,000, up to $2 plus almost $3 million a suite. Well, they're saying the 3-mill ones are obviously 50-yard line, better seating and stuff like that. But so, I mean, I'm not saying, I'm not laughing at $3 million, but for a Taylor's Swift, why wouldn't she? Why shouldn't she? Yeah, the rich. She makes so much money. No, but, but what I'm saying, if the money is going straight to the NFL, all right, Kavino, yeah, let's be honest. You worked in radio and TV. I sure have. When you've, when you've got deals at places like, oh, Kavino, we got your free tickets to Disney or Universal or this or that. You don't need it. You know who could use

that more than you? Some struggling family, but you took the perk because you're on radio and TV. I'm telling you, if Taylorship generates all this money, Mm-hmm. Based on that, I guess the NFL wants to keep her happy, and they probably will give it to her for free. The person that needs at least will get it. Won't she be in Travis Kelsey's suite again? Remember the story he paid for the suite last year that she sat in?

Yeah, I mean, and it's not like those. And I think there was a page six story yesterday or today, and it said, Travis Kelsey could drop another $3 million on Lux Super Bowl 2025 suite. I mean. for Taylor Swift and loved ones. How will he afford that between his NFL contract and his $100 million podcast deal? How is it?

His endorsements and his cereal. Didn't you have like some funny little slogan for it, the Tay what would you call? Will Tay pay? Will Tay pay? All right, so the question is, will Tay pay or should Tay pay? I've always wanted to visit there. Tay pay.

Tupay or not to pay? Tupay. If we're talking about Rich, it's definitely a two pay. Yes. But that is the question. And if you want to talk good. business. The way Rich broke it down, it seems unfair, but that's how the world works. So I would say it's in the NFL's best interest to give it to her for free. Is it going to break her bank?

No. That's why it's not a big deal. But the reality is. I think the NFL will give it to for free because they want to keep her, her fans, and everything happy, and they want to keep it going. It's just good business. When you go to a fight night or let's say you're watching, Remember the first Monday Night Raw that was on Netflix? Yeah. And it was out here at Intuit Dome. Yeah, where your boy got booed.

The Hulkster? Yeah. Not my boy anymore. Yeah, that's your boy. When you saw that and all the A-listers and B-listers are in the first couple rows, you think they're paying for their tickets?

You think someone with a Netflix show and they're like, Raw is now on Netflix, and there they are, the star of Netflix show. It's the business of, you know, scratch my back, I'll scratch your back. We're scratching each other's ass. Everyone's scratching each other's.

ass. That's the NFL's way of scratching Taylor Swift's ass. I wouldn't be shocked. My point is, the one person that could afford it more than anyone will likely get the free suite. And yeah, it rubs people the wrong way, especially when other rich business people are paying up to $3 million for it. They're still not Taylor Swift.

That's just how it is. Well, with that said, let's get some updates in the world of sports with Dan Bayer. What's up, D. Hey, guys. Saints are still looking for a head coach last night. they confirmed, or today they confirmed that last night they spoke with Eagles' offensive coordinator Kellynne Moore for a second time about their head coaching vacancy.

The Saints job is the only vacant head coaching job right now in the NFL. Commander's offensive coordinator Cliff Kingsbury has withdrawn his name from consideration in New Orleans, according to Fox Sports NFL insider Jordan Shultz. Cowboys officially hired former Bears head coach Matt Iber Flue says their defensive coordinator. Iber Flues spent time in Dallas as their linebackers coach about eight years ago. Patriots are letting go of Brian Belichick after five years of coaching the team's safeties. In speaking with beat riders of the Cleveland Browns, GM Andrew Barry said the team will not be trading defensive end Miles Garrett this offseason, even if they were offered

two first-round picks. Eagles will wear their home green jerseys for Super Bowl 59. Chiefs wear their road whites. ESPN, the first to report that the Kings were open to trading Deerrant Fox prior to next week's trade deadline. Kingsbeat.com says that Fox wants to go to the San Antonio Spurs. He will be a free agent after the 2025-26 season. Golden State Warriors will retire Andre Aguadala's number nine jersey on February 23rd when they host the Warriors and Clay, I should say, when the Warriors host Clay Thompson and the Mavericks, Igo Dala, the seventh Warriors player to have their number retired, first from the recent Warriors dynasty.

And cast forward, Dean Wade's going to miss multiple weeks with a bone bruise in his knee, according to Cleveland.com. Guys, back to you. You know, DB, thanks, bud. Can everyone mark their outlook right now? Monday, February 10th? What's Monday, February 10th? The day we start caring about the NBA.

Oh, yeah. After the Super Bowl, instead of just casually looking at highlights and, you know, standings, could we dive in to the NBA? I don't know. The Lakers have been on fire the past week or so. I've been watching. I've been watching a little Lakers because they are fun to watch.

I mean, I am sucked in by LeBron. What's up, D. This is what's great, too, is just as you're about to get locked into. of the NBA, their All-Star weekend is the next weekend. So, I know. Say, I'll wait another week. Wait another week.

That'll be best. As we close into the Super Bowl, I start thinking about, well, we're less than two months now. Away from baseball. Yeah, spring training kicks in right after we got back. Baseball. I'm a bigger baseball guy, but I will say, I don't want to harp on it. I'll just say it one time and then I know we got a break. Does no one want Pete Alonza?

Someone's going to scoop him up. And Breggen. But is Scott Bored? that much of a painly ass that Steve Cohen is a lot of reports that it's not him. There's a lot of reports that it's not him. Steve Cohen is a... Job is to do what's right for his player and get what his

player deserves. Apparently it's Alonzo who could essentially make the call and make this happen. Hey, Boris, this is where I want to play, make it work. But Steve Cohen as a Mets owner has been so transparent. And at that Mets fan fest, he said, listen, I know you guys love Pete because the fans were going,

we want Pete. And he's like, listen, I get it. We gave a pretty great offer. and listen, if he doesn't want it, we love Pete, but I'll be honest, the dealings with Scott Boris were more of a pain in the ass than Soto by a ton. So if Soto is considering an easy deal, you don't think maybe Scott Boris is getting in the way of Pete a little bit? See if Pete wants to join your softball league.

You know what it might come down to that? I think there might be a little more of Pete Alonzo complaining and holding his ground than you think it is. Your thoughts on polar bear Pete, your thoughts on Taylor Swift Payne? we'll get to all that. And of course, Mahomes trivia all coming up. Next, right here, your butts, Kavino and Rich. Now, the average time to hire for most organizations

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What's the news, name? Huge news. We created our own podcast called, Hey Jonas. We invented a podcast? Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to a podcast. Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts. We're starting a trend.

But this one's extra special. So how do we actually come up with a name, Hey Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember. I think it was on a call about what should we? should call it. We were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band before Jonas Brothers. This is how you guys remember it going down?

Yes. I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast, where people could call in and say, Hey, Jonas. And then I wrote down on my little notepad, Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title for the podcast. But thanks for remembering that, guys. Listen to Hey Jonas on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or what? wherever you get your podcast.

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CNR on FSR. The legends known as Kavino and Rich. Look at you. By the way, January usually crawls by. They'll get moved pretty fast. Last week of January, we'll be February New Orleans next week. Doing the show live. That'll be fun. I can't believe Super Bowls

upon us. Yeah, that's wild. Live from the tire rack.com. Studio. Iowa, Sam on the ones and twos. Mixmaster Sam. I got a dumb. I got a dumb. question for everyone. I said something during the break and only half the people in the room got me.

I brought in some peanut M&Ms. And I handed spot a couple. Covino, you want some M&Ms? And I was left with a couple in the bag. You know what Rich is? Rich is what you call in German. Oh yeah. A gain stifler. Gain stifler. Gainstifler. Gain stifler. Gainstifler. You know what that is? That's got to be racist. No, because I made that up. It's just gain. He stifles my gains. I'm hitting the gym, I'm on the treadmill, and this guy's bringing in M&Ms and donuts. Whatever his kids don't want at home, he brings here to the office and he stifles my gains. I'm trying to avoid snacks, and he's pushing them on me.

I brought in a grilled chicken sandwich and a green juice for myself, and I gave Kavino M&M's. He's trying to bring me down. He's a gain stifle. Gaines stifler. It's definitely an oomelot in there somewhere. He's a gainstifler, man. So I'm breaking my ass. I'm at the gym every day for this guy to bring me leftover cupcakes,

leftover donuts from the weekend it's hard to say no I gave these guys The weekend gave you donuts I gave him a bag of Eminem's bad joke It was great actually The weekend gave him donuts

That was your stretch Get back to the drawing board Please bring up this awesome point You're about to make about Eminem's Oh man Wow This is as good as the Paul brothers fight I know

Me You know Spot and I were very close To doing like a charity boxing match Yeah maybe you should And no joke a couple months after that Danny G Spot ended up having quintuple bypass surgery. Oh yeah, that's true.

So Rich would have killed me and then he would have had that on his conscience for the rest of my life. If we would have went through with this. Imagine if we would have had like a charity boxing match and I'd be laughing down from heaven right now. And all of a sudden Spot would have been laying on the ground like he's Apollo Creed and I'm Drago. That would have been awful. You would have felt terrible if he murdered Spot in the ring.

By the way, I'm not even joking. That almost happened because we were at each other. We were so at each other's throats and I'm like, yo, I want to fight you. I'm like, well, I'll fight you in a charity boxing. Back to your M&Ms, please. I could have killed you. I said, I gave you guys M&Ms, and I had a little, I had three M&Ms left in my bag, and they were all green.

And I go, oh, green M&Ms. You know what that means? And that's what I thought. And Spott and Kavino knew what I meant, and you guys didn't. Didn't you grow up knowing that they always joke that green M&Ms made you horny? You never heard that as a kid? No, no one? So I'm confused, though.

Did a doctor prescribe them for you? And that's why you brought them in? Hold on, Dan Byer, you've never heard that green M&Ms get you all riled up? No. Never? They're actually my favorites. Wow, that explains there. That makes sense.

That's why we called Dan the fertile turtle. I never wore sweats. Danny G. And I would say, you had never heard like the stupid joke of like, oh, green M&Ms get you all? No? I didn't know green M&Ms were an aphrodisiac is what you're saying. Now we know how DB's son got here now, though. It's more like a legend.

I don't think there's any truth. No, of course. Green die 40. Yeah, but that definitely was a rumor that I knew. It stems from Van Halen requesting bowls of just green M&M's backstage. Is that where it came from? Yeah, like other celebrities followed suit and then it became a thing. And then Eminem started playing into it.

They made the sexy green M&M. See? In the commercial. So there was, if you. I know that. If you were a kid of the 80s or 90s, Kavino and I did not grow up in the same area. So the fact that we both remember hearing that green M&Ms.

Oh, yeah. Got you all riled up. I mean, you heard of Richard. You heard the Richard Gear rumor, right? Sam? Yes. Okay, okay, guys. I don't know how he got pegged with that.

That was just a word. That's about the brown M&M. I don't know how. With a gerbil, apparently. Oh. You weren't supposed to say that out loud? And you heard that Paul Pfeiffer grew up to become Marilyn Manson? These are all great rumors.

Rumors, rumors, allegedly, all that good stuff. I'm just saying, all right, cool. But yeah, green M&Ms. But I'm shocked

that neither of you had heard that. Anyway, you can turn off the central music sam. I'll just get my green M&Ms ready. Eminems. Anyway.

Yeah. Coming up, we got Mahom Showtime trivia. We're going to give away a convene on Rich, Fox Sports Radio, stainless steel, water bottle,

a swiggy. We'll get to that. Plus, a new study about how we are all watching sports. And it's interesting. because I subscribe to this when I'm watching movies and shows, but sports, I'm going to say no way Jose Canseco.

I'm going to say no way. Oh, great joke, Rich. Oh. Oh. Great one. He owned you. Man, more of that next hour. Hey, guys, it's us.

The Jonas Brothers. I'm Joe. I'm Kevin. And I'm Nick. And guess what? We created our own podcast called, Hey, Jonas. We invented a podcast.

Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to it. We're the first people to do podcasts. We get to ask other people. questions because we're sick and tired of being asked questions. Well, sick and tired is a strong way to put it, but, you know, tired and sick. Tired and sick. Listen to Hey Jonas on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

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