The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Hour 2 - Tiger King & the King's Son!

Episode Date: March 20, 2025

Covino & Rich have fun with a Macho Man thought! They continue their Old-School topic of the week. 5 years ago today, Tom Brady to the Bucs & the Tiger King debuts. What are your biggest memories from COVID? Plus, Ron Washington may not have anything to lose & Bronny may have the ball tonight!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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all the live long day, guys. Our buddy Elijah, Spot, Sager, and Sager, and Sager, everyone posted great videos. I'm not drinking, I promise. All the live long day. What is that? Like, Snow White and the seven dwarfs? There's no more seven dwarfs, I would say. Come on.

There's the new one coming out, right? There's no seven dwarfs. Aren't they dwarves? No, they're like mystical woodland creatures. That's why people are saying they're not going to go see the new snow white this weekend. Wait, wait, wait. They've gone too politically correct. This is the one that's out like right now.

The one that's out this weekend. And they're like CGI, like CGI, like woodland creatures. Woodland creatures. Like a raccoon. No, not a raccoon. I don't even know what they're. A possum. Like a little gnomish-looking people.

Why don't they just call them dwarves? I look at it like they took away work from, honestly, little people. They did. Like dinklage and all the other. They prefer to be called dwarves. Listen. We're little people. Let me tell you.

No one's going to see that movie for that reason. All right. Hey, Kavino and Rich on Fox Sports Radio. And we're going old school like we do every Thursday. And before we get to your phone calls and feedback, we are reminiscing. And I'll explain in a second. We did say it's March Madness. And we jokingly did our macho man Randy Savage.

Oh, yeah. Macho Madness. Oh, yeah. I'm so proud of myself. Do you think, because we see a lot of these legends, the way we look at Mike Tyson now as he's like a funny older guy and a lot of the legends, do you think if he had lived, macho man would have been one of these guys that we get a kick out of? Oh yeah. Definitely. Like I feel like macho man would have been a really funny old guy.

Without a doubt. Like we would have been, like he probably would have done a promo like, it's more madness. Like they're like we missed out on like old macho. I mean, we got to snap into it. We saw him. Spider-Man, right? Like, you started seeing him in a pop culture sort of way a lot. I feel like...

Yeah, he would have just expanded on that. The same way, like I said, you see, Mike Tyson or one of our older childhood heroes, you know, it's like a funny veteran, I guess you would say. All right, let's go old school. Today marks the five-year anniversary of Isaac Lohencrown's favorite show. Tiger King. Honestly, it's a show that none of us would have ever tuned into.

Hadn't we had been so bored and making puzzles and sourdough bread and washing our hands over and over again, wiping down our groceries, all the stupid stuff we were doing to kill time. This was our only option. It's the only reason we cared. Look at the date. It's a 20th, right? So Friday the 13th was the last day many people were at the office.

So this was seven, eight days into a quarantine. And Netflix is like, hey, here's a documentary about weird people that have jungle cats. See all you cool cats and kittens? Yeah, ridiculous. So ridiculous that we were all. all exposed to this and we all talked about it. We all watched it. And again, it was a totally total timing sort of thing. Otherwise, we wouldn't have cared about Joe Exotic. But instead, we all watched and we all knew that song. Remember that stupid song? It wasn't even him singing.

Because I saw Tiger and a Tiger saw a man. Now, if you remember back at this time, when we're so bored, everyone's jumping on, zoom together. Everyone's making videos from home. Spot was making sourdough bread like a lot of people were. Yeah, I was so bored at home. I was making videos. I did my own version of that stupid song five years ago. Take a listen. Hey, it's Quintino, Kavino, with my latest jam that I'm working on.

Everybody feel free to sing along. Mm-hmm. The last of Rich Davis, Jitter-Reeva. Loss or Rich Davis was a goon. Rich Davis was a goon. I saw Rich Davis, Gitterieba food. Everybody.

I saw Rich Davis, he was a jitterieba food. So thank you for making that five years ago. And he just on repeat. Rich Davis was a goon. So what were your weird memories from five years ago when you were watching Joe Exotic and Tiger King? When COVID first started and you were, like you said, you were wiping down your groceries. You were getting back from the supermarket.

And I remember, like, you know, everyone has their own timeout of when they played it safe and what they did. But you remember taking like Klorox wipes and wiping down the packaging and everything? Boxes. Yeah, they would get, they would arrive. I never wiped the groceries down. Well, the thing is, and I did, Danny G. The thing is at this time, again, last week was the Rudy Gobert story. This week is when we were introduced to Joe Exotic five years ago.

Tom Brady announced he was going to the Bucks after 20 years of Patriot. You're like, okay, well, that's cool news because you're thinking ahead, right? Oh, March Madness was canceled. I was going to say, why were we watching Tiger King? I don't know, because the tournament that's going on today was canceled. Yeah, five days. We were all wondering like, hey, we were supposed to have this two-week curve thing. Are we heading back to work or what?

Yeah, five days before the tournament was set to begin, it was canceled. So weak, dude. So anyway, when we all look back personally, and I know everybody feels the same way, but it really, like, it sucked, dude. I hated every second of this. I hated it to the, High heavens. We're going to try to have some fun with it today. Your random memories five years ago. It's a major time. I know some people lost people. There was some tragedy involved. We're keeping the lighter side of things.

Like, you know, there's a lot of people that benefited from this, namely influencers. Because at that time, musically turned into TikTok, and that blew up. And you started seeing people doing their... Carol Basque, killed her husband, whacked him, and all these dancing trends. Yeah, but were you zooming anybody? You were doing Skype before... this happened. There's still people right now who get to work from home, and that would not be possible had it not been from their company branching out and allowing them to work from home when COVID was... The listeners don't know this. All of us are actually at our homes right now, by the way. By the way, here at Fox Sports Radio, here at Fox Sports Radio, we had to dig a little

deeper to find live sports news. Here is a clip from March 15th, 2020, when our top story was live badminton listen finally hold on to your socks and shuttlecocks because at the yonics world badminton championships yuki fukushima and sciakahorota of japan said sayanar to china's du yinui and lee yinui 2113 that's what i call march madness that's wild dude do you know one thing i'll never forget on our network first first of all we all had a zoom call with scott our boss and he told all of he said, obviously these are interesting times. We're all going to have to dig a little deeper to find really good entertaining content for the listeners. Because, you know, nobody was sure with network, TV, radio, whatever.

We didn't know, would there be less listeners? Would there be more? Turned out the listenership, like, tripled because people had all this extra time to take in TV shows and radio and television. So that was one thing that was a little strange was suddenly. There were 11 million listeners instead of 6 million or whatever it was. You know what? It was great for radio and Fox Sports Radio. And us professionally, we ended up in a better place.

But you know what it also did in an eye-rolling way? It let everyone think they could do their own podcast from home. And it did sort of watered down our world. Like during towards the end of COVID, that's when you'd bump into someone. And they're like, you know, I do a podcast. And you're like, I changed everything. It was funny to hear the different. though in what they would cover like I'll never forget Ben Mallor covered a marble championship

race where people were racing marbles I remember that and remember there were the um the NASCAR drivers that were doing the simulated race car races in their contraptions there were so many odd ends that were being covered and discussed and a lot of it was amusing because people were like what are you guys going to talk about well we found things to talk about that's all yeah everybody They had to pivot. That's our strength. So, we were fine. We were in sweatpants and we were drinking more than ever.

But what were your memories that stood out? Oh, do you know what? That's a great one. Kavino. I hadn't wore sweatpants since middle school P.E. Oh, it came back hard. And I started wearing sweatpants all the time. And in fact, I'm wearing jeans today.

The last year or so, that's when I actually started dressing like a human again. It was a major comeback for sweatpants. I got way too sweatpants comfy. And I think a lot of people did. Puzzles became a thing. So what were your memories five years ago when we were introduced to Joe Exotic? Could be in the world of sports. It could be just in your life.

Oh, what do you remember most? I got one in the world of sports. I got one in the world of sports. Throwing it back on a Thursday. First of all, I remember Jimmy Butler doing his big face, big face coffee inside the bubble. That was a good one. Remember when he was charging other NBA superstars $20 for a cup of coffee? And since then, he has opened up coffee shops.

How about this? Do you remember Major League Baseball? Certain stadiums and teams were selling cardboard cutouts that you could put in the stands. Like, if you wanted Danny G's cardboard cutout at a stadium, you could buy it. I was in Dodger Stadium. Clay Travis did a bit where all of us from a show got cut out. Isn't that say your Twitter avatar? It's my Twitter avatar, yeah.

Is it? I'm going to go there right now. Danny G. I want a cardboard cutout. Show us how little I pay attention to you, Danny. I never even noticed this. I didn't notice that's what it was. Yeah.

On the Clay Travis show, that was a bit that we did. Oh, your famous photo with the blue ball. bat? Yeah. That's that? So just to have a funny cutout, I held a wiffle ball bat. Oh, I didn't know that's what it was from. Yeah, of course we know that. That's hilarious, dude. That's the picture spot uses when he goes to you in videos. All right. So Danny G. Radio, if you want to check it out. Let's go to the phones, 87799 on Fox. It really is like, it leaves such a weird feeling inside because you're like, that was five years ago. Something happened where it just feels so odd. Like, time went super fast since then

because it was a major stamp in our life, right? So everybody remembers it. And then it's like every time it was so much quicker after that. We've been playing ketchup ever since, right? Yeah. What I don't want to do is have this get political, but I do want to bring up one point

that I think one of the big negatives besides obviously this affecting people, you know, certain people, the elderly compromised people did get affected. Died. I think, I think that the reality, is that it separated us more than ever.

Like, I think we were politically divided a little bit before that. You know, there are people that love Trump, hey Trump. But I think during COVID, I think that how people treated COVID, we were more separated than ever before. And I saw this firsthand because I live out here in L.A. My wife's from Texas. We were renovating our house. We went back and forth from Texas to L.A. every three weeks to check on the progress of our house. I'd come back here to L.A.

people would be double masks walking down the street. I'd go to Texas and our friends would be like, want to get dinner? And I remember being like, we are living in different worlds. I'd have friends. I'd go out for brunch with my friends in Texas. Then I'd come back here and I'd be like,

hey guys, I'm wearing a mask. Like I remember being like, what world are we in? Because depending on where you lived, you acknowledged it or you didn't. And it was very interesting. Obviously,

different levels of precaution. Hating, talking about it, like puts me into a place that I hate. Actually, I have to stand up because it gives me anxiety. I hate it. 87799 on Fox. Let's go to the phones. Let's say hi to Justin in South Dakota.

Justin, what do you remember from five years ago when you were watching Joe Exotic? Well, I never seen Joe Exotic, but I was going through stage four Don Hodgkins and phoma cancer. Jeez. It sucks. Yeah, man.

Well, it's good news he's here with us. I was going to say, you know what? Hey, for you. You're here. Yeah, heck yeah. What a hard time for people to have medical issues. Because if you remember, we all started missing our dentist appointments. We weren't going to checkups anymore.

No one's getting a haircut. Exactly. And if you were sick or you had someone unfortunately pass away in the hospital. What if you needed hip surgery? What if you needed someone like? Electric surgery? I can't do this right now. Danny's right, Sam.

I have a friend who lost their father. Not to COVID. He passed away of something else, but they couldn't even be with him in the hospital. Yeah. It was horrible. I think another thing. Dude, I started giving friends haircut because I had clips and I was good at it. So I was giving spotty haircuts.

There's a video where our video guy spot, he was even lazier then, if that's possible. But I remember he had not got a haircut for a month. And then COVID happened. So he was like overly due for haircuts. So one day while we're doing the radio show from home. Dost off the clips. Kavino gave him a sweet fade. And we're like, wow.

And that's when people started getting flobys again. Yeah. George Clooney was one of them, right? I remember him talking about it. Rich, hold on. Before you go to a call, your kids would have been very young when COVID struck, right? So I'm thinking about all the parents who either had like kids between the ages of zero to five

or the parents that had to like educate, like homeschool their kids and work. Sam, that sounds like the most stressful home life ever. I think about how grateful I am that my kids were too young during COVID. But you have to be around them 24-7, right, for a while. On a side note, though, self-reesome. Officially, my son was a newborn, so it was sort of a good time. Right. You can't talk yet. He can't nag you for snacks.

I know it kept people and germs away from him. Not only did he just got to be home. No, meaning I was stuck at home when I had my son was born in February of 2020. So when he was one month old, COVID happened. So I was the dad that was able to be there and help my wife all the time because go to work. No one's going to work. So selfishly, I was like, not a bad time to have a baby. During COVID. However, if you had kids that were in school, what an effing nightmare. Imagine your teenage kids in high school and every day they're on their laptop trying to learn from your kitchen. And you're maybe trying to work from home and think about how, like, what cabin fever you'd have at home. And not only that, I was telling Kavino earlier, imagine you're the dad or mom that's saved for your kids' college tuition.

And you have tens of thousands of dollars and your kids sitting in the kitchen doing college. Meanwhile, you're spending tens of thousands of dollars. You know what gives me anxiety, Kovino? the fact that we had to eat through DoorDash and Uber Eats and all that. Oh, they still do touchless delivery. That stuck around. Yeah, did. But I had never used those services until COVID.

Dude, Rich never washed his hands before COVID. That's facts. That's the truth. It's facts. We were gross before COVID. I went back to not washing me hands. Back to the phones. Again, what do you remember from five years ago this week?

Keep it light. Trip in Vegas. What's up, Tripp? Hey, guys. Good to have you all back. missed y'all last week. Oh, thanks, bud. Still listening, though, but missed yaw.

Two things, especially being in Las Vegas. One, you just mentioned DoorDash. That created something that stinks. That contactless delivery equals, I mean, I'm not a DoorDash driver, but that meant people didn't have to tip. That's number one. And then the second thing is I've got pictures. I took my girlfriend at the time.

I thought, we've got to go do this. I've got walking on the strip by the Bellagio and all that. I felt like Will Smith and I am legend. There was nothing on the street. I have a video trip outside of the Staples Center before it was crypto, right? Kavino and I used to work at ESPN, downtown L.A. I have a video that looks like a ghost town. It looks like, honestly, like you said, I am legend Will Smith.

I was there. It was the weekend after everyone was quarantined. And I'm like, guys, look at downtown L.A. It's nothing's here. So let's go to Jen in Michigan. What's up, Jen? I'm here from Michigan. seven or three years before i found out i had um sleep atneous so wearing those masks it was hard on me

yeah that was hard for a lot of people and especially with little kids that are trying to learn and mask it was it was a rough time you know it if you put one of those masks on for some reason right now it's weird a few minutes in you're like how did we do this for hours and hours on end again i hate looking back at that i really do and seeing all our little kids go to school that way it was the You smell your own breath. Your glasses would get fog. You know what? It gave some people some self-awareness.

Your ears would ache. It gave some people some self-awareness about how danked their breath was. Or, you know, if you didn't, listen, a lady doesn't do all her makeup or something. She can just throw the mask on. She doesn't have to do her lipstick. If you know what I had a theory that it was a great time for ugly people. It was. You know, it was a great time for ugly people with hot bodies.

We said, if you had bad teeth or a bad, if you had a bad, if you had a bad teeth or a bad nose, like, you might have. That was your time to shine. Just look into my beautiful eyes and look at my beautiful body. It's amazing. Well, listen, Fox Sports Radio Nation, we're going to continue reminisce and wrap up with your phone calls next. And then back to Ron Washington. What do you think about?

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Settle down, tractor supply. With the angels in Ron Washington. back to that, but we're reminiscing five years ago, we were introduced to Joe Exotic this week. Our lives are changing. Truthfully, not a fun time to reminisce about because I don't know. There were some like funny

moments. Unless you became social media and influence are famous during COVID because that's where a lot of these TikTokers started making millions. So unless you're an influencer, your career took a good turn or you were to one of those people that just made a ton of money in the market, which by the way, when you think about what you were doing,

I was one of those guys that, trust me, it didn't work out all well in the end, but I was one of those guys that thought I was a day trader. I don't know if anyone, Isaac, did you dabble in that? I was Sam. I was one of those guys that was every day. I was buying like penny stocks and I'd have great days, bad days. Everyone thought they were a day trader. You know what's weird?

I'm not making this up. Even before COVID, you know, who was a huge day trader, Al Michaels. For real? Yeah, for real. During those days, like I'd have buddies tip me off like, hey, buy this pharmaceutical stock. would go up like 300% a day. By Zoom.

And I remember telling my wife, like, I think this could be my side hustle. Rich was a day trader. I was a day drinker. My best friend was Tito's. Tito's was my best friend during that time. Rich invested in them. Yeah, we started boozing a lot around that time because we were home and bored. I remember either making or losing thousands every day in my life for like six months.

But I remember Kavino hit me up one day. And again, it's not funny to joke about alcohol too much. But remember Kavito hit me up one time. He goes, bro, like, how often do you go through a handle of Tidos? How many did you have? Just going through him. You know what was that weird party Zoom thing? It was called House Party.

House party. Remember people were jumping on house party just to, like, communicate on social media. And you're having drinks and you're just talking to Randos. It was a weird time. I think you guys were both in relationships when COVID started. I was single at the time. I actually met Brenda during COVID. That's correct.

the second year of it. So how did she feel when you took your mask off? It was a surprise when we both took our masks off. But dating and dating profiles and meeting people was interesting at the time because you thought you would get ghosted prior to COVID. You really got ghosted as far as actually meeting up with people during COVID. There were even Zoom dates and things. It was virtual dating almost at the time. It was really strange.

She gave it to me. What, syphilis? No, the vid. All right, let's go to Chris in Arizona. We'll go rapid fire, then we'll go to Isaac for an update. We'll get back to that Ron Washington conversation, which, by the way, the more I'm thinking about it, the more I'm confused. So I need your help. Chris in Arizona, what's up, bud?

Hey, you guys led right into it with the whole drinking thing. During COVID, my wife, I have friends over every Saturday night, and she's not too fond of it from time to time. But during COVID, she's considered high risk, so she didn't want us hanging out. So first Saturday when COVID really hit, my buddy pulled up in his truck and sat on the tailgate. We made sure we were six feet apart, but we still got it done. Yeah, I remember people, do you remember like kids would have drive-by birthday parties? Like for little kids, like, their pals would, like, go by the house like, hey. Or like grandparents would talk to their kids with like a glass.

Again, we're trying to have fun with this conversation. It's really tough. The more we're having the conversation, I'm like, this sucks. Do you know how difficult co-parenting was? Okay, here's a positive we had, especially if you're in a major, city with gridlock traffic. That is the best time I ever have driven my car in Southern

California. That was a positive. I'll give you positive. I told you we were renovating our house in Los Angeles. I was flying to and from Texas every two weeks. $49 one way and I was like one of eight people on the plane. It was ridiculous.

And it wouldn't be a show if I didn't bring up Kavino's ex-wife once in a while, right? Because I love to point that out. I always felt bad for him. I'll say it so you don't have to. Some people were more cautious than others Every time he had his daughter She required like a negative test when he gave his daughter back Yeah, it was a hassle and a hole

Yeah, let's talk about the nasal swabs Dude, I would call Covino like yo bro where are you He's like, you know what I'm at an urging care I'm like why he goes, you gotta get my daughter I'm like every week Well because my ex has little ones didn't want to bring Anything compromise back to her house Every time Covino we entered the network doors here

We took our temperature It was like a workstation. It was weird that I was Sam kept bending over. Is this where you put it? Remember we had to get a COVID test, though? We had to go to some like, you know, a clinic or something. We couldn't get one at home. How about the shady urgent cares who ripped all of us off by charging so much money for those tests?

We saw those urgent cares go out of business once people didn't need the tests any longer. Can I tell you this is so east coast of me? I had a COVID guy. Early on when tests were hard to get, I had a guy. I had a guy that would be like, yo, Hyundai. I had a guy that if you gave him $100, he had a test.

So it was a weird time, dude. Again, to be honest, I'm almost regretting. We're reminiscing. But you know what? It was five years ago. It is a timestamp. It's a big part of our adult lives. And really honestly, check this out because this will mind F you a little bit in a weird way,

but also a nice way. If you do search in your gallery, go to your gallery and you search March 2020, you can see right where you were before this happened and right where you were right around this time. You're like, oh, my goodness. I went to a, I went to a Bond Scott tribute night. And Bill Burr was one of the acts doing like a 20-minute stand-up bit. And it was all like ACDC covers. And that was like while COVID was sort of drifting out into the masses. And someone made a joke.

They're like, I have COVID right now. And Bill Burr was like, get out of here. So it was crazy. We all felt kind of weird to be there, but we're like, let's do this. Yeah. Rapid Fire, Patrick in Spokane. What's up, man? It's up in Canada.

I love up here in Spokane right before it, and things were getting weird. I just wanted to give a shout out to the people that didn't get shut down. A very large package distribution company, not the brown one, but the other one. Yeah. Yeah, we didn't got shut down. So shout out to all the hard workers. You know, we talk about if you want to forget all the negative or the positive, If you want to talk about the things that changed in your life,

we talked about how there are people that sort of working from home, even half the time that still work from home, that never work from home. The essentials and non-essentials. Yeah, that's right. There's so many people that went to an office every day of their life. And from COVID on, they're like, yeah, I work from home half the time. So there are things.

We had never used the word quarantine as much, like in this past two weeks, five years ago than right now. You remember club quarantine? Quarantino-covino is what they called. Ohio, Nick, you're on with. What's up, man? Hey, what's up, guys? Hey, bud. Angle here, and you've danced around that a little bit,

but I kind of appreciate you guys in there, and let me elaborate. But, man, the things was so crazy. Like, you couldn't do anything. And the one thing that's kind of old half of Ben Mallor on the way to work in the morning, an hour and a half of Kavino and Rich in the evening, and everything that was on media was like fear. Every morning you guys were there, you know, and it was just, it was normal. It made stuff feel normal.

It made it feel like. You know, in the back in the in the in the like you're here it's it's very eye rolly to say but I sort of felt proud that Kavino and I never missed one day like COVID happened and we're like we're just we were each other's uh what would you call when you uh what do they call the people close to you like you're uh confident on you know not your inner circle remember like you're like your inner circle people like a stupid name for it like you're uh whatever it was we oh there was a term I forgot it what was it there was like a term for like the people in your circle like they're in my blank and it was like the people that you were around without a mask. Like, oh, no, they're in my whatever. Didn't we call ourselves Wu-Tang? Yeah, we were the Klan. You know, just for optics, you want to hear something

ridiculous? And I get it, maybe. We were working at Sirius X-M at the time. We worked together every day. Would you believe on video, they made us go on different cameras even though we were in the same room because they didn't want anyone to think we were in the same room? And I'm like,

and I was like, dude, we lived down the block from each other. best buds we're still hanging out. And they're like, yeah, yeah, but for perception reasons, like optics, two cameras. Yeah, that's how it was. Optics. I remember. That was my introduction to you guys.

The very first time I saw you two working together was during COVID. And I got to, and the caller hit on it a little bit, but I got to give props to all the tech producers, the executive producers here, the editors. We were here the whole time. They gave us FEMA cards because the network's in charge of EAS alerts for the country and stuff like that. So we were considered essential workers. We did not miss a shift.

We could not miss a day. And, you know, hopefully you didn't get sick. Thank goodness. I didn't come down with COVID during that stretch. But we all had to be here physically in the network while all the hosts were from their home on, you know, the satellite feed. Aye, you know what? That was crazy. We pushed through it all.

Two quickies. We'll go to Isaac and we'll get back to our Ron Washington hypothetical. What's up? Johnny Boy. Virginia Beach. What's up, man? Hey, how's going, guys? What's up, man? What up, buddy? I'm doing good. I heard that Las Vegas had a problem. They couldn't lock the doors because those doors were never made with locks on them.

You know, that's like, isn't a joke like 7-Elevens don't have locks on their doors because they're open 24 hours? You know, it's, I do remember Vegas going to Vegas soon after COVID. Remember they had the shields up between you and the dealers? That's how weird that was. Flexiglass. Dude, can we know? Sneeze guard. During the break, Kavino was saying how it's almost like anxiety-ridden to have this conversation because we've come, you know, we're sort of like, you know, back to normal in society,

but really sort of C-blocked a lot of people's lives and relationships and work and a lot of stuff. So even talking about it sucks. It doesn't it make you appreciate how things are right now a little bit? It doesn't show you how resilient we are. Yes, bad things happen. And, you know, I don't care about your personal take on COVID because we all have our own thoughts. But to think here we are back to normal, right? I won't say this.

Those stimulus checks we got could have been, like, doubled. They didn't quite go far enough, especially for people who were trying to get by. You're like, you still complaining about your Stimmy check? Here's like $1,500, but like it was like maybe inflation was starting to take a hold or something. But I'm like, these disappeared. This money went bye-bye in like a second. I'll take a little more money. One more to wrap it up.

Who do we got? Speaking of Vegas. Ah. Ann. Hi, Ann. What up, Ann in Vegas? Yeah, good things coming out. I was too late.

What's up, Ann? So things I remember most about COVID. I started Facebook gambling like pool tabs in these bingo groups and all different types of like random gambling that people would just be hosting online in these chat rooms on TikTok and everything else. But then also I got pregnant during that lockdown. Oh. And so someone was locking it down during lockdown. Yeah, social distancing didn't work out. but it was like my first kid

and it was terrible because of a quarantine situation like I had to go to all my appointments alone even for delivery like my doctor at the hospital I was originally going to go to St. Rose and like they weren't allowing even the father to come in for delivery of like seriously alone it was it was a sucky time to be a pregnant mom

hey you know what you may be thinking something because she said in Vegas and it would only be Kavino and Richesk to end this conversation on a smutty note but what happened as strippers during COVID? They started OnlyFans. Exactly. They're wearing masks.

Strippers into OnlyFans because all these young women that were making their money, lap dancing and touching and grinding and gropey, that was no longer on the table. Comedians, everybody had a pivot. Only fans. Comedians started podcasts. Exactly. Like, you know, think about that. Two layers, and we'll move on.

Just remind yourself, COVID, comedians, podcasting. strippers, only fans. Bo Burnham did a special from home, if you remember that. I do remember that. So again, five years ago, if you want to chime in on your memories, hit us up at Covino and Rich. And when we get back, again, we continue with this Ron Washington story,

maybe talk a little brawny. Isaac, Lonecrown. What's doing in the world of sports, my friend? Well, speaking of that, quick promotion, you can join me on my new only fans page, by the way. Same great sports news, minus the trousers. All right, with that out of the

Round one of the NCAA tournament in full swing. Oh, yes, radio is theater of the mind. One game going on right now, eight-seat Gonzaga leading nine-seat Georgia, 85 to 62, 250 left to play in the second half. Gonzaga jumped out to leads of 13 to nothing

and 30 to 5 in this game. The big story of round one today, 12-seed McNeese, upsetting five-seed Clemson, 69-61. McNeese led 51-20, with 741 left in the second half. Clemson closed the game on a 38 to 18 run, but ran out of time. One seed, Arborne over 16 seed, Alabama State, 83 to 63.

Auburn led this game by just one point with 114 left in the first half. One seed, Houston over 16 seed, S IU Edwardsville, 78 to 40. Nine seed, Creighton, knocked off eight-seed Louisville, 89 to 75. Creighton's Jemiah Neal, 29 points, 12 rebounds, and six assists. Three-seed Wisconsin, getting past 14-seed Montana, 85-66. Four-seed Purdue, holding off 13-seed high points, 75-63, and six-seed. BYU, advanced over 11-seed Virginia Commonwealth 80 to 71. Finally, in the NBA, ESPN reported Los Angeles Lakers star Luca Donchich will not play tonight against Milwaukee

in order to manage his sprained right ankle. Guys, back to you. Thank you, Isaac Lohencrown. And by the way, as I said it, oh, you know, I'm a lot to say one more time. one in 9.2 quintillion chance of having a perfect bracket. No, you retired that. I retired it. Listen, we got more, Camino and Rich.

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We just contributed to it. We're the first people to do podcasts. Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts. We're starting a trend. But this one's actually. 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 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 I offered it up. was a potential title for the podcast. But thanks for remembering that, guys. Listen to Hey Jonas on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Just listen. We don't care where you hear it.

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You know she'll be happy. I see here in the anchor studio. Monzi Bologios. I see a lot of stadiums are offering some more. more vegan options in the food department. Yeah. I mean, it is nice to see, but, you know, I really am going to indulge in, like, the desserts and the sweets that aren't necessarily vegan.

You're not going to have the, you're not going to have the 16-inch sausage at Dodger Stadium. Is it vegan or vegetarian? Maybe. I would try it. I've seen the bat that fills up with popcorn that I want. That's a big trend. And Kavino and I are going to discuss that a little more and overpromise. Will that start stadium fights or not?

They're plastic bats filled up with... You can't hurt any... You know what? Like at Iowa Cubs games, AAA at Cubs, you can get a beer bat. I think every food and drink should be served out of a bat. The beer bat's just like this long beer you can drink. Yeah, but then you can't put it down. Dodger Stadium has a beer bat, but you can't put it down.

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reset on the IHeart Radio app. It's a new feature. Again, Fox Sports Radio on the Iheart radio app. Look for Covino and Rich. And thank you guys for hanging out with us. Now, we got to wrap it up with Ron Washington again. I think it's a great idea, Rich, because like I said, it's a no-fail experiment. If they do terrible, it's not because they didn't have their cell phones. And you have to think about how much of a distraction it is, especially when you're trying to make a change, right? You're trying to do something different. Like when players are being hit up by their wife feast throughout the day

and baby mama drama and they're distracted with social media. You know, he's there trying to win. Take away the distractions for a little while. So the least you could do if you're serious about winning when you're getting paid that much money. I get you. With kids, I said this to my wife

yesterday. Anytime my son or daughter like, hey, dad, can we do ground balls outside or hey, do you want to, can we ride bikes or do something? I'm always going to say yes. Because if they're choosing that, over their iPad, you'd be a terrible parent if you're like, no, no, I can't go do your iPad. You made me think of one thing, though. You know, I do think it's a good idea for Juan Washington to take the phones away so that

chemistry could build, relationships could build, we can communicate as a team. But if you are a parent, you never want to be that far away from your phone in case they need you for an emergency. So that is problematic. I never want to be too far away from my phone. My battery dies. My first concern is, what if my daughter's trying to get a hold of me? Yeah.

So how do you balance that? That would be something I'd be, you know, concerned about. I think Mike Trout and other team leaders have been put in charge of, you know, administering fines and stuff like that. Hey, maybe there's a, how about this? There's a clubhouse almost like a bat phone, like the hotline. I think there actually is. Where it's like, hey, listen, wives, girlfriends, mothers. Like, hey, if there's an emergency, there's someone on hand at all times.

The famous Joe Montana story where he'd call out to his wife from all the different stadiums. And by the way, there's a related story today where, Ronnie James, who's probably getting some playing time tonight against the Bucks, Ronnie James said that he sees and reads and hears all the criticisms. He sees it all and it sort of motivates them. But how about for the people that gets in their walls and gets in their head? You think they really need that when they're trying to play their best before a big game? I don't think it's that productive for these players.

The reason I'm torn on this, Kvino, is that when you hear stories of school saying no phones, I think that's a great idea. When you say, hey, do your kids rather go outside and play wiffle ball or go on their iPads? Of course, wiffle ball 10 out of 10 times. I'm just saying these are grown men with wives, girlfriends, gumad, side girls, kids, moms, aging parents. I just feel like taking away a grown man's phone is like, come on. Imagine somebody like, Kavino, hand it over. You tell them to beat it.

School, the workplace dinner. You know, this is the workplace. Yeah, I get it. Right? And if it's, clearly it's problematic too. these guys are spending more time on their phone than they are building chemistry. Well, getting to know each other. If the Angels aren't 25 games under 500, we'll consider it a victory.

What do you think? You got to applaud Ron Washington for trying to do something different. And Covey brought up the Lakers besides the tourney. Lakers bucks, no Luca, no LeBron, of course. Austin Reeves is now hurt. Finney Smith is hurt? Vanderbilt is hurt? So is Dalton Connect going to go for 40 tonight?

And Brony will definitely get some playing. Is it? Is tonight, let's honestly, prop bet is tonight Brani's highest point total ever? Should be. I mean, you just named like five players that put a point. So unless they plan on scoring 65 points, maybe Brani scores five to 10. He's going to mess around and get a triple double. It's going to be cool to see.

Definitely reason to watch tonight for sure. All right. Well, hey, have a great Thursday night. Overpromised is up next, our bonus podcast. And then tomorrow back here on an action pack Friday. So we appreciate all the support at Covino-Ritch. We'll post a link where you could play along live on the YouTube channel, right? Arriva d'Achee, baby.

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