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Episode Date: April 10, 2025

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I know there's the places where there's like eight chairs and everyone's chopping it up. That's not how our barber Addy is. My barber cuts my hair and then he lights it on fire. You ever see those clips on social media? Chops it with an axe? Yeah. I got a really advanced barber crazy techniques he uses. You're not talking about Greek flaming cheese?

I don't know if it's an L.A. thing, Sam, or what? Light it on fire, huh? He's one of those guys. You ever see those guys on social media where they put all the, like, the wax up a guy's nose and like, oh! Yeah. That's what they do for, and then they spray paint my head. Carlos Beltrane style?

Yeah. So. Like your boy, Ryan Holland? Yeah, like Ryan Holland. I'm telling him, you said that. I don't tell him. So I'm in the barber chair. You were thinking it.

My place, Danny G. And I feel like this is more common around the country. And that's awesome because we are on the radio all over the country. You know the salons and barbershop. where every barber or hairstylist has our own little room. It's like a building, a facility, and everyone has their own little, like, office, essentially. Our dude, Addy, always watching the NBA.

He's got his own little office. He pays for his own little chair. Yeah, you pay for your chair, but it's not an open space. It's like little rooms. In the middle of my haircut, some dude just walks in. He's like, hey, hey, what's up, guys? I'm thinking, I'm in the middle of getting a haircut. I'm talking about the...

Honestly, I was talking about the NBA Western. conference and how there is a four-way tie. What is it, the four, five, six, and seven or something are the same exact record right now. And between the three and eight seed is two games. He's a big Clippers fan. Pun intended, he's a barber, but he actually is a Clippers fan. And he says the clips don't lie. His clips don't lie.

Yeah, man, it's tight. Obviously, Oklahoma City, first place. Rockets, 52 wins. Lakers, 48 wins. Clippers, 47 wins. Everyone else has 47 wins. The Nets, the Warriors. As we speak right now, the clips, the nuggets, the Warriors, and the Grizzlies all have the same exact record.

And the Lakers are only one game better than those teams. So five teams tied. Five teams essentially tied. And this guy's like, hey, what's up, guys? And I'm thinking, is this another barber coming to say, what's up? Is this his boy? It's a solicitor. He's like, hey, what's your internet provider?

What's your cell phone plan? Solicitors could go into a store and start talking to people while they're working? And this guy wouldn't stop. He's trying to talk about it. Like, what do you have now? He's like, yeah, man, I'm cutting hair. I got T-Mobile. He's like, well, let me tell you about what AT&T has to offer.

This is extremely rude and intrusive. So what did you say and do? And what internet provider do you guys have here at this place? And my barber's trying to be all nice. Like, oh, man, I think we got like Spectrum and I got T-Mobile. Yeah, so back to the, you know, the clippers. Can you know, I went last night. It's not on you.

You're Barbara Addy, who's great, should have dismissed him. immediately be like, yeah, man, I'm in the middle of a haircut doing business right now. You're distracting me. And if he didn't take it upon himself, you have every right to repeat these words. Remember, two words. And you could use them for lots of things. I use them multiple times a day. These two words, it sounds lame. And you might think of Michael Jackson, but they always work. Beat it. Hey, dude, beat it. What are you doing interrupting my haircut? Anyone distracting my barber when I'm getting a haircut is in my way and ruining my mind. time with the barber. It's given him

opportunity to mess up on your hair. I'm a yappy guy. I don't mind chit-chat with anyone, but can you imagine going into a barbershop? No. In the middle of a guy cutting someone else's hair and being like, who's your cell phone provider? And continuing the conversation to the point where I was like, I said to the guy, go, yo, I'm like, I admire your hustle, but pretty

you got some huevos on you to interrupt a haircut. That's a job that requires a lot of focus, too. You imagine a solicitor coming into a checkup room at your Doctors? Like, what are you doing, man? By the way, it's a two-way street. It's weird. It happened to me once at the proctologist.

No, no, no, but it's a two-way street, meaning a barber who takes pride in their work, they don't like when you're in the chair and you're turning your head to talk to somebody else. They don't like that because then they'll mess up and they have to deal with it. And like I said, pride in their work. But at the same time, when you're getting your haircut, two-way street, you don't want the barber to keep talking to the other barber or someone else who's talking about the game. you don't want someone else taking their attention away from your head sculpting. I had somebody try to chit-chat with my tattoo artist. Yeah, no.

That's even worse. I'm like, bro, please. That's permanent. Yeah, please focus. No, you mean mug the guy. He said, hey, respectfully, you're distracting my moment here. It's not appropriate and there's ethics involved. And I feel like this kid way crossed the line.

That's why Danny's, Danny's tattoo doesn't say Kobe. It says co-eb. He mixed up the B and there. the E. No, and let's be real. Yeah, it's not a tattoo, Danny G. But people take their haircuts seriously. Wait a second. Kobe wasn't Jersey nine? No, yeah, exactly. I just, I want to throw it out there. We're going to get it to the NBA, but I know everyone listening, there's enough distractions. He games on at the barbershop. You know the culture of a barbershop or when you get your haircut. No one wants distractions. I just thought it was the Huevos on this guy to start

trying to sell cell phone plans to my barber mid-haircut. And then I even said to the guy, I told him, man, pretty, I admire your hot in the most. In his defense, there was no sign that said no soliciting. So I guess he had a right. Got to have the sign. You got to have the sign. I then said, you better at least got this guy cut your hair. You better sign up for a haircut if you're going to bother him.

Two words, Rich. Beat it. Beat it. Beat it, dude. Can I, something actually similar to me happened last week. I was napping. and I think I woke up late. The sun was already down.

It was like 7.30. And I get a not... My doorbell rings. I live in an apartment. Not a lot of apartments have doorbells, but I was like, huh, jolted awake. I'm all groggy.

I open the door. I picture you jumping up like Kramer when you did... Oh, totally. Hair shaking, all over the thing. So I open the door, and I'm like, hello, and it's a guy trying to sell me a Verizon Internet plan. Yeah, it's intrusive.

And I was so... And I got to respect the guy because it's a tough job. Being like door-to-door salesman. It's not a thing you see a lot these days. he was a very nice young man and he started asking me hard-hitting questions and he was right i pay way too much your internet now after like five years with this one company he had a better price for me but i was so groggy and out of it that i was like uh like i answered a few of his questions and

i was just like i got to go and then i just closed the door awkwardly it was so awkward i get it you don't want to be rude i'm sorry i got to go but it's still not okay it's when people call you when you're at work because they're trying to sell you some nonsense you know someone i'll throw face time in there. I feel like that's intrusive too. It's like, yo, dude, beat it. And when someone goes to your apartment or condo complex, that's a whole other ballgame, or to your home, up to your personal space, your driveway,

especially if you have kids and you got some stranger walking into your property because he's trying to sell you some nonsense. Get out of my face. I got out of a good deal for me, though. I was like, he has a point. I actually should switch. Well, then that's on you. Then call them up. You know, you don't know. Actually, my work. You need that guy bothering you when you're

taking a nap. I was like, but here's a deal. We forget that it wasn't long ago that everyone knew someone. It could have been your uncle, your neighbor. There were people that were door-to-door salesmen. That's what people did. They sold the, oh, vacuums. I'm a door-to-door salesman. That's alarming now, Rich.

It's not as common as it used to be. Yeah, I get it. The Avon lady would be there hanging out with your mom. You thought that woman was your mom's friend. Someone was selling cut-co knives. Avon calling. It was like their little jingle. Cut-code dude was there.

Your new phone-plan guy. Juan's trying to sell you those TV dinners. Jehovah's Witness. person, like that happened all the time. It's few and far between now. So that's why it's alarming. And poor Sam almost had a heart attack. You need your skin so soft to the mosquitoes.

But no, just a reminder that it wasn't long ago that we were used to people knocking on our door. And we were okay with it. Door to door salesman. That was the thing. Now, someone's trying to sell you solar or pest control. You can't justify it. If you were getting a massage, this guy walked in and just to give him a pitch, that's on your time, on a service you're paying for us.

distracting the barber or the masseuse or whatever. That's just inappropriate. We can move on to the NBA now, which is what I was talking to my barber about when I was interrupted by this guy. So sorry to interrupt. I had to bring it up only because I needed affirmation in the room that I wasn't losing my mind because I'm not a picky guy with that type of stuff. I get it, but I found it very odd that mid-haircut.

Some guy thought my barber's attention should be on his cell phone plans. This guy's got the clippers trying to give me just the right. right fade and this guy's like how much you're paying monthly? Are you kidding me? Yeah. I mean I guess yeah you do commend the hustle but not on your time, not on your watch. Well while I was talking

to my barber it was about the Western Conference and as I said after all this time we're less than a week away until the NBA playoffs and the Lakers and Clippers one game apart. The Golden State Warriors, the Denver Nuggets Lakers

Clippers, Memphis, and Minnesota's only one game behind them. It is tighter, like you said, than a pair of skinny jeans in the 2000s. But last night was a game. Tider than your Smedium shirts that used to get at Express. Men's Smedium. Yeah, you're tight. Well, T-shirts used to wear.

That I got a gap kids. The Lakers, they got the three-seat. They're a game up on all these teams, but, you know, maybe they could have been two games up. There was a close game last night in OKC. And... Or was close. there was a I mean it was it was a one point game

Luca drives to the basket makes a pretty damn good shot in traffic and then you see him like it appears to be barking towards the sidelines towards the bench to the crowd perhaps he put him up 108 to 107 at that point and all sudden

whistle blows he gets teed up second one out and you see the Lakers and J.J. Reddick looking like what? Did LeBron help him plead the case? He's saying that he barked at a fan.

The ref seemed like he was fed up. What is your initial take? Is your initial take that when the refs and officials, their ego gets in the way where getting it right takes a back seat to their feelings? So here's the thing. We often take like one side when it comes to sports talk radio especially. But the truth is there's more than one side to this, right?

Because I do see like, hey, you know, the fans aren't here to see the ref throughout the biggest star in the game. That's not where you're paying crazy amounts of money to see, especially when you got kids there and they're like, oh, Luca, especially in a meaningful game. And you've seen... You've seen this in baseball as well. We're like a Bryce Harper, a star player.

You know, it might get a little chippy. And the umpire, you're out of here. But at the same time, you have to have the wherewithal as a superstar to know that you're one call away from being out of the game. So, you know, you got to acknowledge. that too and you're going to let as ben maller said your boy ben maller went off on lucca danny g i know it's your boy too that must be weird because danny g's the biggest lakers fan and ben maller hates on the lakers and they're good pounds we talk about it on the fifth hour podcast every weekend but i laugh

about it because ben just has a very unhealthy infatuation with the lakers he is definitely a closet lakers fan he was like luca is a baby who's crying and thrown out of the game because some guys in a bolow tie got under his baby skin. You're going to let a guy wearing a bowel tie in his hands. And it's so true. It's like, yes, I hate that the refs threw him out of the game. Meaningful game. People are there to see him.

Not you. But come on, dude. You've got to be better than that. Cove, I understand. I understand that point. And had he gotten into it with that ref right there, I could understand that. But as a player, if you're responding to a fan that's been chirping at you.

In your mind, are you thinking, I'm going to get a tech for this? No, but he's clearly rubbing the referees wrong, right? It's not his first time that he's having a problem or crying to the refs. And my point here is simply that two things could be true. And I think there's little truth to both of those things, Rich. Your take where the refs, you know, they're going a little overbored. I think when a ref or an official or an umpire makes it about them and their feelings being heard, are you overstated?

That's not the point. You're there to officiate the game. The game is still about the fans going there to see the star players and the game be played. And I think there's a pride in letting something be overturned. I remember there was a play at a Yankees game. You remember this? Clearly, I'm sure you're a Yankees fan. Aaron Boone was chirping at the umpire.

And the umpire was like, one more word out of you, Booney, and you're out of here. One pitch later, someone in the stands is like, bear call blue, the umpire turns. around he's like boom out he said he didn't say a word and he read the ventriloquist he threw his voice like the fan threw his voice at boon but i'm saying imagine the john boy breakdown of boon he's saying i didn't say anything yeah i didn't say anything he comes storm out of the dugout and here's the other side rich that you and i talked about earlier today to wrap up that point though i think you have to be able to then maybe correct yourself so if there was evidence in any fashion that all right let's go you know

know they replay fouls, they replay things. What if they go, you know what, let me take a look at the tape. If Luca, if you, if LeBron and JJ Reddick and everyone's like, no, ref, you got it wrong, I promise you. Yeah, why does it have to be like a final call in stone? They're not Judge Judy. They're not the judge. I hear Declare in Stone.

And that well-known OKC fan admitted they talked to him after the game. And he admitted that, yeah, Luca was chirping back at me and the refs could have got that mistaken, but he was talking to me. That's wild. By the way, I was saying you said you have LeBron and Luca talking about this after the game. Where do we want to start? Let's start with Luca himself. You can see it that happened.

But, you know, I never got a fan ejected, never. But if he's going to talk, I'm going to talk back like always. So they had nothing to do with the refs, so I didn't really understand. He didn't understand. It had nothing to do with the refs. And here's LeBron James. It was a weird. We're a couple minutes after that.

I'm starting with the ejection. I don't know. why the ref was taking it personal. He had already gave Luca one, and Luca knew that. And Luca was going back and forth at that time with a fan that was in court side like Luca does. And fans get to talk out of their mind, whatever the case may be. And Luke was going back or forth from the rep. Took it upon himself to think it was, you know, verse him or whatever the case may be.

But then another tee on Bando after a block shot. And this game was just weird as hell after that moment. Weird as hell. Yeah, but you can't fly off the head. handle all the time. And you don't want that sort of reputation to be with you in these crucial moments. And there is the flip side to the story too where, as I gave credit to him before, the great Ben Mallor, we are now starting to see why Nico Harrison made the right move. You know, because he's saying he's un-uncoachable baby. But again, your reputation sometimes

precedes yourself. And I think if he wasn't crying all the time, and rubbing the refs wrong, they wouldn't have been quick to toss him. I'm with Kavino on this because he wouldn't have got tossed if he didn't have the first technical. It only would have been his first technical of the game. It was because it was the second one that he got tossed. By the way, Dave McMeneman covers the NBA,

the Lakers for ESPN reports that the NBA has notified the Lakers. They've rescinded the second technical against Luca from last night's game. Thank you. I'm glad you. Exactly, right? Yeah, and I'm glad DB pointed to that first T, because it's telling what Vando said about it. He said that he thought he got fouled.

This was when Luca was arguing about Vando getting fouled on that first tee. He says, I did get slapped across the head. That's what Luca was telling the ref. He told him what happened, and the ref told Luca, I'll talk to anybody but you, Luca, so it seemed a little personal at that point, and he teed him up. So, wait, you're saying the NBA has said we take it back? the second one. Yeah, recited the second one.

To quote the great Robbie Hart, that's information I could have used yesterday. One lake was lost later. I mean, can we go back to the fourth quarter then? But I think Kavino's point is still true, though. Like, just if it's followed him everywhere, it obviously followed him from Dallas to L.A., you got to tone it down a little bit because otherwise you get caught in these situations where you do chirp and people think, like, the reputation perceiving. him in this situation. Yeah, and two things can be true, Rich. I do agree that the refs,

they get on a power trip sometimes and it's annoying for the fans. And it's annoying as a basketball fan because you don't get to see the true outcome of the game. It's a meaningful game. So I see all the sides here. Two things can be true. We often take one side here when it comes to sports talk. Can I throw a fun ref umpire nugget in here? There was a trend that maybe began, which is why they shut it down immediately. In spring training this year before the MLB season kicked off. What were they sampling in the preseason,

in the spring training? Oh, the strike zone call. They're challenging the strike. Tap your helmet. They made it very clear that if you do that in the regular season, it's a sneakdisk at the hump. So like, let's say Aaron Judge is like,

that was outside. Even though it doesn't matter, if he jokingly, he's like, tap, tap. that is automatic. That's like equally being mouthy. Like, because you're showing up the umpire, doing the little tap of your helmet is your subconscious way of being like, BS.

Well, even on the lowest of levels, you coach pony league baseball and girls softball. Isn't there an unwritten rule where a parent can't talk back to the empire? Not even a word. So on the lowest of levels, if the kids know and the parents know, knows in the lowest of levels that it is what it is. No, you can't even do.

When Luke already has one on him, he has to zip it up a little bit in these crucial moments. No, it's even questionable. It's a learning lesson moving forward, man. There was a warning email that went out. This can't just be the, you know, the kid sports I coach. There was a warning to the parents and the coaches that if a ball is called, you can't even be like, like, don't worry, Sophia, great pitch.

Like, you can't even. Zero tolerance thing, right? Like, you can't even insinuate, like, do that again, honey. That would, that, like, that was a strike. Like, you, you cannot even insinuate that the umpire got it wrong in kid sports. So if you just joined us, Rich is saying that the refs ego, that's what he said in the pre-show meeting, the refs ego killed a great game. Yeah.

The ego, at the same time you have to acknowledge that Luca's reputation may have preceded himself here in this situation. As you said, I agree with you. Your thoughts. Multiple things can be right at the same time. And I think that there's nothing wrong with getting it right. That's why replay has entered the world of sports, basketball, baseball, NFL, college football, everything. Because we want to get it right, correct? Don't we want to get the call right?

So in that instance, if everyone on that Lakers bench, including the victim himself, Luca, was like, I'm telling you, you got it wrong. What is the harm? Sometimes you see him at that scorers table for a minute or so looking if a ball's imbound that it goes off of someone. You couldn't have taken the 30 seconds to look who Luca was addressing. You know there's 100 cameras. Luca throws up an eight-footer. Good. And the Lakers lead, 108, 107.

Oh, Luca just got thrown out. Why? He was talking trash to a fan, and the referee thought he was talking to him. Oh, this is an absolutely horrible decision by J.T.O. By the official. Absolutely horrible. You cannot throw a. a star player out of an NBA game for talking to a fan.

No, the referee thought he was talking to him. Oh, my gosh. This is unconscionable. You cannot do this in a game that's this good. This is one of the worst pieces of officiating I have ever seen, and I've done this for 25 years. I hate this call, and I would say the same thing if they were doing it to Shay. You cannot, Michael, throw a star player.

out of the game for talking to a fan. He didn't think he was talking to the fan. I don't care. The referee thought he was talking to him. That's why he threw Luke out. They had three Lakers explained it to him and he still stuck to his guns because his ego is bigger than Lucas staying in the game. That's courtesy of the Lakers Audio Network.

We are Kavino and Rich on Fox Sports Radio. Ireland's how they're like, that was the, he had the enthusiasm was like, oh, the humanity, like it was the Hindenberg or something. You don't usually hear him that fired up. You ever hear the boxing announcer Morrow Ranallo? Unbelievable. This is a travesty. No, really, man.

That's a wild one. And like we said, two things can be true. But oh, oh, Lucas crying. Is he a sports baby or was it legit? Did the refs overstep? Both could be true. But man, he's getting. beat down today.

Like I said before, Ben Mallor here on Fox Sports Radio, calling him a, he's a spoiled brat. Okay, cite another host because we know Ben Mallor just going to say that. Mad Dog Russo. He doesn't work here. He's becoming impossible to root for.

Impossible to root for. What he says about Luca could also apply to Mad Dog Russo. Oh, impossible to root for. Impossible to listen to. Man, you definitely don't want to see the refs throw them out. in that moment as well. And the Lakers go down.

And a big night for Luca today. They're handing out, thank you Luca t-shirts. And again, his return to see his, as Luca said at the press conference, his teammates. I mean, my ex-teammates. I have thoughts about that. Would you want a thank you Luca shirt? Well, it's his return to Dallas. And it's going to be a very overwhelming emotional night.

I think that's a T-shirt. You hope once again. Well, those Mavs fans were hotter than Hornets when Luca left. They're still upset, Rich. That's true. But I mean, like, I feel like that's a show. you end up washing your car with or something like that stands what you. So do you blame the ref's ego or do you blame Luke?

That's the question of the day. Hit us up at Covino and Rich and we'll still take your phone calls at 87799 on Fox. In fact, we have people that want to chime in on door-to-door sales folks. As I told you, I was getting a haircut today in the middle. In the middle of getting my hair done, barber's got the clippers doing the precision fade. Some clipper work. Maybe respectfully the salesman saw the salesman. size of your head. It was like, well, I can't wait.

Another three hours. It's going to take a while. Yeah, it's going to take a while. If you don't mind, I'll be quick. Let's say hi to Matt in Indiana. What's up, Matt? What's up, buddy? I know you guys always talk about Costco and Sam's Club and all that. And they've been really badly lately with those phone salespeople. And I have to tell my wife that make sure you tell them that we have the most upgraded technology. And yes, where was their plan or so I wish they would go away to

no solicitation at those stores. You know what I did the other day? I was so embarrassed. I was at Costco. Thank you, buddy. And you know, they do the samples. And you do the fake enthusiasm. Like, oh, no, this is good.

How much are these? There's like a weird instinct to look fake interested. Especially at the mall. When you're like, bourbon chicken, what's that? Annie Hans never had one, sure. Oh, the pretzel I've had 5,000 times. Can I get a sample of that? Yeah, never had a cinnamon tasty pretzel before.

You have to do the fake interest. Almost like when someone asked you, do you have a pizza? pen and you know you don't. You do the weird check. Like, oh, no, I just know you check you. You check your pockets damn well knowing. You don't have a pen. Orange chicken.

What's that? What is this? I don't know why. They must have been getting rid of, like, bread that was almost expiring. One of the handouts at Costco was simply bread with like a garlic butter spread on it. And I go, mm. And my wife goes, did you just, mm? It's bread.

Like, you're like, now you're over for it. You never had bread. Oh, like, what? Texas toast. What a luxury? Is this bread with butter? Oh, it's exotic. Scropt.

It's scrotious. Scroocious. Scrooctly. Scroo. Here, Rich, I know this is a side conversation for another day, but there's a jabroney on the Washington Nationals that I keep seeing. Thenes, you got to find out who it is. Oh, he almost got a single just now.

He has the weakest mustache I've ever seen on a major league player. So weaker than Austin Wells. You're weaker, dude. He's got one of those pencil thin, like weak-ass moustaches. I'm a catburger. Yeah, please find out who this is. I keep seeing it every time I look up. It's so weak it needs to be called out.

But anyway, we're Kavino and Rich on Fox Sports Radio, and you got to stick around for midweek major. Hey, it's us, the Jonas Brothers, and guess what? We have some big news. What's the news, new? Huge news. We created our own podcast called, Hey, Jonas.

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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 we should call it. Well, 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 wherever you get your podcast. Just listen. We don't care where you hear it. Another podcast from some SNL late night comedy guy, not quite. Unhumor me with Robert Smigel and Friends. Me and hilarious guests from Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman help make you funnier.

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You don't want to take the focus off your haircut. I can't believe Danny G won up that story where someone was chatting with his tattoo artist? Yeah, that's the worst. That's, there's no worse than that. Now, Danny, a barber, you could be like, hey, we're, I'm getting a haircut here. If I was getting a tattoo and someone was taking the attention away from the person putting ink on me, I would lose my mind. Imagine that? How about when you're in like the middle of an order or you're dealing with someone at the register?

and then someone else comes in, they start like interrupting because they forgot their drink or something. You're like, oh, dude, now you're interfering with my time. I just hate that. Or someone comes up to you and starts talking about torpedo bats? Yeah, get out of my face, beat it, thank you. If you just joined us, Rich was getting a haircut,

and some salesman came in and started interrupting the whole deal, taking the focus off his trimage. And it wasn't even like, like I said, a barbershop with us, like, you know, eight chairs and everyone's chopping it up. This is one of those places where this individual rooms. Stalls. Yes, suites. Sweets. A guy walks in. I thought it was his buddy. I'm like, oh, your buddy's here.

We're talking to the NBA. And the guy's like, hey, who's your provider for your cell phone? Are you serious right now? It's Kavino Enriched live from the Tyraq.com studio. We've talked a lot about Luca. It's amazing to see, like, I happen to find, my personal opinion, Luca to be an amazing basketball player

and so likable. That's how I view. And then it's amazing to see how other people view him as nothing but a cry baby sports baby and I really think that a lot of it comes from I just don't like the Lakers that's really it because I never really heard that much crybaby hatred towards Luca

before I think you're right right so be aware of what we're saying here on the Kavino and Rich show we're professional social observationalists or something there's that's what my business car says so Danny I thought it said radio tycoon yes but underneath it says observation he has horns on the front of his car like a

boss hog. But I'm telling you, it's the awareness theory because you'll see how many people are like all of a sudden, Luke is the biggest crybaby that ever was. I thought that was LeBron. But wait a minute. How could he be the biggest cry baby if his teammates are the biggest crybaby? I'm looking at the Western Conference and not the harp on it, but we did talk about how

Lakers at the three seed are one game better than one, two, three, four teams. Clippers, Nuggets, Golden State, and the Grizzlies are all one game behind the Lakers. Three games to go. And then the eighth seed the Minnesota Timberwolves. And then the 9 and 10, here's where, listen, I get it.

We like the extra playing game. It's fun, I suppose. But right now, to me, Danny, it's very clear. There's eight teams in the West that deserve it. Sacramento and Dallas are under 500. Call it a day. I mean, if one of those teams. You tell that to AD who's going to be bawling his heart out tonight against this former team.

I know he will. But once we get those playing games next week, honestly, look at that right there. Minnesota at the 8 seed is only two games behind the Lakers in the three seed. Sacramento and Dallas have no business. Don't forget Sacramento is just a year removed from being a powerful team in the West. I remember light the beam. We love that a year ago.

But I don't know, the Eastern Conference, the fact that the whole playing round, the 7, 8, 9, 10 are all under 500. Could we just skip around to the next rounds? I mean, we all know the NBA playoffs takes forever to begin with. I think it's very clear. There's a lot of teams in it to win it. But 7, 8, 9, 10, the bottom, get him out. Well, you know what, Rich?

Next hour, not only midweek major, but speaking of the NBA, we're going to talk about a former San Antonio Spurs legend. If we have time, because the show's moving fast. But are you going to let me talk about dire wolves? Let's do it. I don't know. No, you know, we're going to talk about dire wolves in a second, but first, can I just throw some?

something by you. It's a theory that I feel like some people are going to be like, yeah, not the role with that and other people are going to say, this is a sports crime. And this has to do with being a city guy. Rick Petino, St. John's,

always a New York guy, right? And he talks about it. And they asked him about, wait, are you a Mets or Yankees fan? Because he showed up, he showed up at a Mets event. And Sam, we'll play the sound next hour. He sort of describes how he's a Mets and Yankees fan.

And my first instinct is, it can't be a Mets and Yankees fan? Can you be a Lakers and Clippers fan? If you're in Chicago, I remember Sebastian Manascalco recently got crap for this. Sebastian, how can you do that? He threw out the first pitch at the Cubs game and those old school buddies were like,

you're a white socks guy. Wait, he's a white socks guy. Aren't you embarrassed? So, I mean, I think you still take the honor in that particular case. Are you going to refuse to throw the pitch out at Wrigley? No, but he said, well, I mean, I'm a White Soxie. I bet I'm a Chicago guy. I'm a Chicago guy.

Getting out of my car. Patrick, one of the editors here, associate producers. I don't know if that's his title, but I just gave him a promotion. Executive producer of Fox Sports. Pete Cake Patrick, that Mastodon over there, his mom, Maureen, cakes cookies every once in a while and he brings them in I got to tell you I look forward to to that there's a tray of pretzels dipped in chocolate cake pops cookies she's the best man I love it let me tell you spot sobbing with a pretzel he said put that down and eat one of the cookies now

yeah everybody in their car and at home you get to reap the benefits of the CNR fun but you're missing out on Maureen's cookies wish you were here with us in L.A. you know what it is every every mom they want what happened to Marine just now. She sent her son to work with like, oh, take some treats. If she only knew that. Patrick comes in, he's a grown man, mind you, but he comes in like, look what my mom baked, and we love it. It works. It's the best.

I look forward to it. Don't you think the mom does that with the intention of like, I hope him and his friends like the mom. And trust us. We do. It's the best. Man, and that's how you make friends, too. Patrick just went up my AP rankings. of producers and editors.

Yeah. Patrick, he's the best. So thank you guys for hanging out with us and being part of our family, like we said. Now, this hour, every Wednesday, midweek major stories know all the sports and pop culture. Are they midweek or major spots on that? At Spot Center on social media at Covino and Rich. And a new feature, Mike, you know who runs this place?

His Wednesday words of wisdom. So we'll be giving you some of those later on because if we have to be subject to them, you have to hear it too. I don't know how we could wait for that any longer. But we have to because I want to talk Rick Petino for a second. Sure.

We talked about having secondary teams, not, you can't claim more than one team. Well, make it clear, Rick Petino, he is New York. He's born in New York. He's from New York. He's a native of New York. But he was at City Field hanging with the Mets, and a reporter did ask him, listen, you've got a Mets jersey on. Aren't you a Yankees guy?

And this is what Rick Petino said. Well, as a kid, I used to go watch Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, even reserves like Hector Lopez, Johnny Blanchard, Quebec Richison, Cleetus Boyer, one of the great third baseman of all time, Whitey fought on the mound, yogi, and you know, you grow up as a youngster sitting in the bleacher seats, I think, for $1.18 at the time,

if I could remember. But I was always a Met fan of Kuzman and Siva and going back to Tommy Agee, and I'm one of the few people that rooted for both teams. Anything with N.Y. on it, I'm 100%. behind it. Okay. Now, first of all, he went way back with his Yankee fandom, right? And if you're going to call Cleet Boyer, Cletus Boyer, yeah, you're clearly a Yankees guy. He went back to Lou Gehrig in that little rant he went on. He's a Yankees fan. Now, does this count? Can he be both? Can you be

both? He is a New York dude. We made that clear. I think you could pay respect to your city and not hate on the other teams because it's part of where you're from. But you can't be rocking the other jersey. Example, I'm a Yankees fan. And I'm not going to hate on the Mets because I'm from the East Coast. I'm not going to hate on them. But I'm not going to wear a Mets jersey ever. That's the difference.

Ever. We are in the minority that, you know, we busts each other's chops about the Mets and Yankees, but I don't hate the Yankees. I have Mets fan friends that are like, I hate the Yankees. Ever unless Cityfield invited me to think. throw out a first pitch. That might be the only exception. Because what am I going to do? Disrespect them and say no. What would you do in that moment, right? I get it. So, you know, I can't say never, but you don't just rock the other team's jersey. It's like, if you're a Lakers fan, Danny G. from California,

do you hate the clippers? Or like if you're in another country or another state, are you going to be like, yeah, man, you know, they're L.A., so I respect them, but I'm a Lakers guy. Have some hate towards Donald Sterling. Right. I think a lot of Los Angeles hates the Clippers' former owner and all the stories and facts about that guy from back in the day. And it's the Clippers fans, I think. They talk about Lakers so much that you're like, pay attention to your own little red-headed

stepchild team. You call them the red-headed stepchild. That's what they are. And you can't be both, though, because if you're both, it's like women, right? it's like The Bachelor when he's like I'm in love with two women to me you know what that says

yes I know it's kind of possible but it really means that you don't love one enough because if you did you'd be with her yeah I have what I call interests I may die hard like college like a secondary interest

if you minored in something like NFL if you know our show you know that I'm a Niners guy but there's certain teams that if they do well, I'm happy for them. I'm certainly not rooting like I'm a fan, but my mom, Danny G.,

I have family members that like the Raiders. And being that I'm from New York, I have a soft spot for when the Jets actually do something good. I'm like, oh, good for them. I don't root against teams, but I would never say I have more than one team. But then again, Rick Petino is as New York and old schools you get. So I have a hard time sort of hearing his answer

and hating on it because, who's more New York than that guy? Who's more New York and who dedicated their life more to sports, right? Yeah, exactly. Who are we to judge? But it still does rob me the wrong way, respectfully, because here's what he could have said. Oh, yeah, that's right.

I grew up. Oh, whoa. Loving the New York Yankees, you know, from Cleep Boyer to Babe Ruth. Oh, I love them all. Cletus, you know, Cleetius Boyer and Yogi Barra, oh, the Yankee Clippon. Whitey fought on the mat. But I'll tell you what. All the way to Rigetti, all the way to David Williams.

All the way to Red X and Paglia Rulululah. Damn Pasqua. I love them all. Lupinella. Oh. But I got to say, I'm wearing the meds because Tom Seva, I loved him. Oh, Greg Jeffries was one of my favorites. Great Jeffries.

Look, if you're allowed to have, to like players, you know what I mean? So if his thing was I really loved, you know, this Tom Severe era, he could have said I love Tom Cever and Daryl Strawberry were heroes of mine. But do you give Rick Petino? You can love players. Do you give Rick Patino an exception? Because he's such a notable man. And in the sports world, that's his industry. No, uh-uh.

Meaning because he's Rick Patino. It means he hasn't made up his mind, Rich. It's like, yo, you're just being selfish now. He maybe it's like, choose one. He's so inside. He works and is coached and one of those legendary dudes in sports. So maybe he's allowed to look at it. Everybody.

Is he not a person? Pick one. You got to pick one. You can't pick both. You know what it reminds me of a little bit here on the West Coast. Growing up, and I had some years in the Bay Area as well, but here in Southern California, known Dodger fans that will go to Angels games a couple times a season.

And they don't have anything against the Angels. It's just like they're in the American League. They're no threat to the Dodgers. You know what I mean? So that's what I think of. Like I have some stepchildren who love Mike Trout and they love Shohei early on because he was an angel. And it was like they weren't Angels fans, but they had no hate for him.

They rooted them on even though they were Dodgers fans. Does Patino get the pass? just something that was kind of funny stood out to us because he's clearly a Yankees fan and he proves that in his statement and everybody knows that but he's wearing a Mets jersey so he was called out. There's certain cities that are big enough for multiple teams. New York. By the way, Rich, hold on.

I'm sorry to interrupt. More than ever with the Soto stuff, you can't be both. Get out of here. You could respect the Mets, but you can't be both. What about? Why not both? Nah. Corn or flour?

No, not in this case. It's not like the little tortilla girl. You could respect and love players and watch and keep your eye on or secondary interests like you said, but you can't be like, if it's New York, I love it. Give me the answer. Then put your thinking cap on. And it's a fedora today, by the way. That's true. Put on your thinking cap and think of what same state or same city rivalry is just impossible to like both.

I have a few that come to mind. Like impossible? To me, it's like you can't like Texas and Texas A&M. You can't like the Rangers and the Islanders. I think the Clippers and Lakers are in that same conversation. You can't be a Raiders and a Niners fan. Yeah. There's some.

Now, Mets Yankees, it's interesting, right? Because there's no hatred. I'll give you the caveat as to why the Mets Yankees is interesting. But the Soto thing stepped it up. My dad is almost patino-ish. And I'll explain. My dad grew up a Yankees fan. Roger Maris was his hero.

My dad loved Roger Maris. He was like, I was one of the few where everyone else was like, Mantle, my dad love Roger Maris. He was a Yankees fan. Grew up. Oh, the summer of 1961. I went to college in the Bronx, Fordham. When my dad was a teenager, the Mets came into existence.

There was a, you know, there was a lore of like, another team, not a competitor of the Yankees. They're in the NL. My mother's family, Mets fans. And over the years, my dad went from Yankees to Mets, which, by the way, weak decision. You know, think about I could have been a Yankees fan. But we're Mets fan. So if a team comes into existence, like if you live in, let's say, Arizona, you might have been without a team until the Diamondbacks popped up in the 90s.

So if you're like, well, I watch the Cubs on WGN and, well, you know, now I so like the Cubs and the Diamondbacks. Maybe he lived through that exception. If you live in an understanding, I say there's an understanding. If you're an expansion team city, if you're a Rockies fan and you're like, well, I like the Rockies, but let's be honest, the Rockies weren't around until, you know, 30 years ago. So before that, I was a Yankees fan. That just requires a little more explanation and

some understanding. So I get it. Doesn't mean I need to agree, but I do understand. So that's the Rick Patino story. Can you root for both? I think you could have flour and corn tortillas. Sometimes why not both does apply?

But sometimes it does not. Like you said, Rangers, Islanders, sometimes you just can't. You got to pick one. pick one. You're being greedy. Can't do it. 87799 on Fox. We do have a few phone calls.

We have other things to get to. The person that also got crap for this. I said it before the break, our old pal comedian, Sebastian Man of Scalco, why would you do that? He threw out the first pitch. Why would you do that? Throughout the first pitch at the Cubby's game. He's a Chicago guy.

But when he did, he actually went on social media. And he's like, I know all my old school buddies know that he's a, More of a Southside White Sox fan, but he's like, yeah, but you know what? I'm a Chicago guy. And he tried to justify, like, but I'm a Chicago guy. And I'm a Chicago guy. That's funny.

Look, I don't know. I think that only applies. Like, Rich, when are you American? When do you call yourself American? When you're out of the country? Yeah. So maybe, I don't know, maybe when you're at a certain level of celebrity and you're in different states,

like you no longer represent a team, you represent a state. I'm not at that level of success. I represent, I'm a Yankees fan. I'm not a New York guy. Success. I'm not a New Jersey guy. I mean, I'm just a Yankees fan. I consider myself an ambassador here out in L.A.

I'm like a novelty, like an ambassador for the state of Iowa. And I certainly wouldn't ever wear a cyclones jersey. But I'm in the know with the cyclones, the Iowa State Cyclones, and the Northern Iowa Panthers and the Drake Bulldogs. I like to know what's going on with them. And I will talk about them, but I'm not rooting for them. Now, let's take two quickies, and then I want to talk about what I think could very well be the end of the world. Let's go to Bob. You're on in Texas.

What a tease that is. Hey, Bob. So I'm originally from Kentucky, and Kentucky versus Louisville and basketball, both of which Patino coach, that's kind of like a civil war and you can't cheer for both. That's a great example. I don't think you can be like, well, you know what I like? You can't say, you know what, I like Yukon. I'm not, no, you can't. You can't say I like North Carolina and Duke.

Absolutely not. You just can't. There's some you can't say. Well, I like the, I like the Blue Devils, both the Tar Hills. No. Can't do it. Can't do it. Sounds indecisic.

Yeah, well, none of us grew up hearing, oh, I'm a big Celtics fan and a big Lakers fan. No, it was one or the other. You may have admired Bird and Magic for their play, but you weren't a fan of the Lakers and Celtics. That just doesn't make sense. All right. Tripp, wrap this up in Vegas. Hey, buddy. Good afternoon, guys.

So, great to talk. So I went to the University of South Carolina. My sister went there. My family lived there. I don't own anything orange. We don't mention the word Clemson in my house. Yeah. Yeah, we had two interns when we were in our serious ex-exam.

For the record, I don't own anything orange either, but it has nothing to do with Clemson. What about your hooter shorts? Oh, man. That's right. My hooter shorts that I wear to bed. I forgot about those. Good call. It looks sexy on you.

We had two interns, Danny J. I'd say about a decade. go. James and Jeff, we had two interns in the same semester. Remember when interns were a thing in radio? Yeah, before they started demanding money. Before people started sleeping with all of them. Interns were making more than us.

So they came into their internship. One went to LSU. One went to Alabama. From the minute they met each other, they hated each other. And the whole semester was almost like an internal competition. Like, hey, Kavino and Rich, like, I'm better. One represented LSU. Yeah, that was funny.

And it was very funny to watch them the whole semester, almost like there was some odd internal, like I'm trying to prove to you guys that my college is better and I'm better. Oh, you know what it sounds like too? And again, there's an understanding because the Mets came out later and he probably appreciated him. It sounds like a political answer. Like he's a politician of sorts.

Like Giuliani's a Yankees fan. And I remember there were times where he would, you know, support the Mets and people would be like, why are you doing that, Rudy? You know, that was before the hand. to rough someone the wrong way. That was before the crazy and the hair dye and everything. Exactly, yeah. What's up there, Dan Byer? I was just going to say, just going back to the main point of Rick Petino, it's not like that there's a main competition in New York City for St. John's.

I can understand if you're Rudy Giuliani and you're running a campaign or politician or in that case, you don't want one side to completely leave you and go to the other side. but there is no other side for St. John's basketball. Yeah, and if anything, he's sort of gaining support of everyone in New York, like, hey, I'm so New York. I'm Rick Petino. Rood for St. John's, Yankees fans, Smith's, I love everybody. Yeah, I just, I don't necessarily, I don't necessarily understand it. I was like to when President Obama just said I'm a white socks fan.

Man. Would wear his white socks cap? I totally respect that. Respected it. I thought that was refreshing. Didn't he wear, he actually did wear, I think, a white socks hat at a first person. pitching rigley or something like that. Yeah, something along those lines.

He did do that. And I respected the fact that, like, that's the team he rooted for. It's not that serious. It's not that deep, as the kiddos say. Am I mad at Rick Patino? No, but you got to call him out, as they did when he saw him on the streets. Now, before we get into other nonsense, Rich, I know. Spots got midweek major, and I know that's going to take some time.

We want to give him time to go over all the hot stories. Big Mike who runs this place. Who? Big Mike. sits down with us every day. And this is a testament to Mike. We love Big Mike. He brainstorms.

We shoot ideas back and forth. It inspires thought. We love Big Mike. And sometimes he'll drop words of wisdom. And we're like, Mike, I think we just need to make this a feature. Because if we have to hear these things, I think everyone does. That's him emailing me right now because he runs this place. Let's listen to installment one of Big Mike's words of wisdom on a Wednesday.

passing the torture onto you. If someone tells you eating less cheese is healthier, they are 100% just trying to steal your cheese. Never thought about it that way. You like my music?

Never thought about it that way. Wow. Well, Rich, you're the cheesiest guy I know. How do you feel better? So if someone says eating cheese is bad for you, they're just after your cheese. Yeah, I think it's deeper that. I don't think it's just about cheese. I think it's a metaphor. Yeah, I do. I think it's a metaphor. Someone tells you to eat

last year. It's like when your wife says that shirt looks good on you, but it really doesn't. She's just trying to keep you out of the game. I think that's kind of what he's getting at. Thank you. Big Mike who runs this place. Thank you. We'll listen. We've got more.

Kavino and Rich. We'll go over all your headlines in the world of sports and entertainment next. Right here. Fox Sports Radio. Hey, it's us, the Jonas Brothers. And guess what? We have some big news. What's the news, new? Huge news. We've created our own podcast called Hey Jonas.

We invented a podcast? Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to a... We're the first people to do podcasts. Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts. We're starting a trend. 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. Before Jonas Brothers was... This is how you guys. 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 wherever you get your podcast.

Just listen. We don't care where you hear it. Another podcast from some SNL late-night comedy guy, not quite. Unhumor me with Robert Smygel and Friends. me and hilarious guests from Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman help make you funnier. This week, my guest, SNL's Mikey Day and headwriter, Streeter Seidel,

help an a cappella band with their between songs banter. Where does your group perform? We do some retirement homes. Those people are starving for banter. Listen to humor me with Robert Smigel and friends on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet lost its mind.

Highlights are trending, opinions are flying, and nobody's telling you exactly what happened. That's where Sports Slice comes in. I'm Timbo. Every episode, we're cutting through the noise, breaking down the plays, the controversies, and the stories behind the headlines. We go straight to the source, the athlete themselves, their locker room stories, their reactions, the stuff nobody gets to hear. The laughs, the drama, the triumphs, the moments that never make the highlight real.

From viral moments to historic games, from buzzer beaters to controversial calls, we break it down, give you context and ask the questions everybody wants answered. Sports Slice brings you closer to the action with stories told by the people who live them. Listen to Sports Slice on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. And for more, follow Timbo Slices Life 12

and the TikTok podcast network on TikTok. The French Open is one of the toughest tests in tennis. And I know firsthand because I competed there myself. I'm Renee Stubbs. And on the Renee Stubbs' tennis podcast, I'm breaking down everything happening. at Roland Garris, every match, every upset, and what it really takes to win on Clay. Jenchen went.

I mean, she went down in three to Rabakina, but I'm delighted. She's an outsider to win the French for me. And she likes Clay. Listen, Lena Rubakina is arguably the best player in the world right now, and I actually can win on any surface, because if she's serving, well, good luck. Consider this your court-side seat to the French Open. Listen to the Renee Stubbs Tennis podcast on the I-Heart Radio app. Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Presented by Capital One, founding partner of IHeart Women's Sports. Imagine an Olympics where doping is not only legal, but encouraged. It's the enhanced games. Some call it grotesque. Others say it's unleashing human potential. Either way, the podcast's Superhuman documented it all, embedded in the games and with the athletes for a full year. Within probably 10 days, I'd put on 10 pounds.

I was having trouble stopping the muscle growth. Listen to Superhuman on the IHard Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Just trying to steal your cheese. I think there's a lot of truth to that, but I don't know. It's not cheese. He's not talking about cheese. I feel like Mike was very proud of that. Like, man, he really broke the glass on that.

And before we get into midweek major, I do want to point out one more thing. Nathaniel Lowe of the Nationals, Nathaniel Lowe, his mustache. I'm not even kidding you. I don't think it's good. Here's another new segment. The weakest mustache of the day. And I'm not hating. I'm just stating. But he's got like the weakest Clark Gable pencil stash going on. Clark Gable, yeah.

It's kind of Clark Gable, but it's also who's that guy? John Waters. John Waters, yeah. Love John Waters. Yeah, it's a John Waters pencil stash. You'll see it in the highlights later. Hey. The Nationals are playing the Dodgers.

Yeah, but you're okay with Yankee Austin Wells mustache. It's better than this dudes. Yeah, for sure. It looks like a Walrus. So that being said, it's a hump day. And it's time. Kavino and Rich get you over the middle of the week with Midweek Major. Ooh, I love that.

We throw sports and pop culture headlines and topics at the fellas. And it's like the kids say. That's so midweek, definitely major. CNR scoring. Midweek Major. If we go really quick, we can. give spotty nine full minutes. What am I going to do with all that?

You hear the horns, you know you've made it to the middle of the work week. Before we hand things over to the number one and only host of this segment, we like to roll the two red love dice in the main studio. Oh, man, sorry. I was still thinking about Mike's wisdom. I was like, what does he mean by the cheese? All right, roll the dice. Yeah, the winner of the roll gets first take.

I rolled 10. And Rich rolled a eight. Eight. Man, you keep losing. Yeah, I'm on a streak, man. So Covino gets to go first. And now, ladies and gentlemen, the most famous person besides Judy Bloom from Scotch Plains, New Jersey, Spotty Boy. All right, since we're talking about mustached men, actually he just debuted a new beard.

Paul Skeens, you know, has that new bearded look, has Libby done by his side. But his gymnast influencer girlfriend revealed that he almost blew his chance at dating her. And that's for one simple reason that he didn't follow her back on social media. that lame. I know. The fact that she had like 5 million followers meant nothing but in a GQ interview she talked about how they knew each other as LSU athletes but she was hesitant to pursue

him because he didn't throw the follow back. Skeen said it wasn't intentional. He wasn't active on social media. Was very aware of done as everyone else was at the school. But it's possible that actually the lack of follow made her more interested. She's like, why is this kind of following me? What everybody else does?

She said, who is this kid? He won't follow me back. Eventually Skeens went and asked her out and and I went public with their relationship, midweeker major. I'm not hating. I'm just stating again. This is a mid story. That's so mid.

Because I just don't get it, but it's not my job to get it. This guy has the personality of, again, I said it yesterday, my wettest sock possible. But still, he pulled her with no follow.

It makes me want to take my follow back. I follow Libby done. I want it back. I'm picking my follow back right now. Take it a better chance. Do you take your follow back, girl? You know what? There is a major lesson, though,

to be learned. And the major lesson to be learned is, like, women want you to ignore them. I don't know why, but that's the truth. You explain it. This is mid. However. That's so mid. However, it worked to his advantage not being a fanboy. That's what I'm saying. You've heard many of influencer hotties say, oh, they follow me.

I have fans. You don't have fans. People are fans of your ass. So I think, to be honest, a gymnast in her defense. She's different. She has fans. But I'm saying there are people that are just hot on social media. When they say my fans, I'm like, fans of what? Your boobs? So to me, I think not being a fan boy work to his advantage. And listen, he's busy being a future Hall of Fame Cy Young Award winner at LSU.

Do you think he's worried about following someone on social media? But then again, plain hard to get unintentionally seemed to work. Yeah, you know what, props to him. He played it cool, I guess. Can we say the B word? Are we allowed to say that? Well, stick with that. You know what?

I was going to save this for later. I'll stick with that theme if you needed a reason to watch this year's International Boxing Hall of Fame Parade of Champions, because I know you were going to be glued into that. I have two big reasons for you. That's because Sidney Sweeney has been named the official Grand Marshal of the event that will take place in Boxing's hometown of Canistota, New York, on Sunday, June 8th. Sweeney, most likely taking the honor and promotion of her upcoming role as female boxer icon Christy Martin, who herself served as the Grand Marshal back in 1996.

and was really thrilled that Sweeney was announced. This year's class of honorees actually includes Manny Pachia, Vinnie Paz, Kenny Bayliss, among others, mid-weeker major. I'm a boxing fan, so everything about it, I think, is mid. No, but there's major names involved. Vinnie Pazianza, Mani Pachial, these are all Hall of Fame names. And the fact that Sidney Sweeney's playing Christy Martin, I mean, they really, I mean, she was good looking for a boxer.

Sydney Sweeney might be the almost best-looking women in Hollywood. Yeah, the total glamour. Some of the images look really good. Yeah, she really dedicated herself to boxing, which, to make it more legit. And to make it more realistic, you gotta give Sidney's credit. It is a glamor casting. I think it's a mid-story maybe, but still, does it speed bags joke in here somewhere that I just can't find?

Right. Oh, you mean you bounce those things like Sugar Ray Leonard? I just wanted my two big reasons joke to land. Oh, you spot. Can you repeat the name of that town in New York? Was it a can of soda? No, can of stoda. Oh, I thought I heard you say can of soda. I was like, I want to go there.

It's two cans of two giant cans of soda. LeBrah James teaming up with Mattel and the Barbie franchise to be the first, quote, Kempasseter for the massively popular doll. LeBron will be honored for his influence on, quote, culture style and community. The doll that's going to be created will be incredibly detailed with his signature beard, custom jacket, cross-body bag, sunglasses, beats headphones, a gold watch, and merch from his foundation, also a pair of Nike's with phrases scribbled on them. He will be

wearing a hat, unfortunately, so we don't know if the hair line's going to be accurate. The dolls will be available for $75 in stores and online midweeker major. This is major. Think of the Barbie franchise, how legendary it is. You combine the franchise with LeBron. Again, they

picked them because of his style, his community, and something else. There was like a criteria that he met. Style community and something else. Culture, style, and community. And LeBron is, you know, a great ambassador to the game in his community. It's a huge honor. The Barbie franchise, like I said, and it's a cool doll.

He's calling it Le Ken. As a Ken bass. Like a Le Ken? Yeah, but is it like, um, does he still wear those, like, nude color briefies that the old Ken used to wear? Oh, maybe. Or is it anatomically correct? Listen, I think this is, uh, this is major. Definitely major.

I was talking about this earlier in my Mojo Dojo Casa House. Yeah, he has his own Ken, though. He has his own doll. Barbie, like you said. is a huge brand. LeBron's one of the biggest stars in the world. I think it's great. I mean, who doesn't want action figures?

You ask any player, any wrestler, any actor, when there's an action figure, no matter how popular you are, that's got to be a cool feeling. Well, it's funny because it just coincides with the current trend that's going on with social media right now. Through chat GPT,

everybody's creating their own actione own figure. If you go to our social media right now, Covino and Rich, in our Instagram story, Spot put our images through AI, and it created like a Covino and Rich action figure set and everybody's been doing that but lebron has an actual Barbie dog coming out it's cool when you can personalize these things i think for easter i'm gonna surprise my kids and get you know that

you could design a funco to look like someone i think it's like 30 or 40 bucks you can personalize one for your kids i don't know i think it's really cool something you were never able to do when we were kids all right uh yankees outfielder cody bellinger don't know if you saw this story says he's officially done with eating chicken wings after a nasty bout of food poisoning after the yanks lost to the Tigers Monday night in Detroit. Belanger opted to chill in his hotel room and watched the NCAA men's national championship. Ordered up some chicken wings from the hotel without any sauce or rubbed said they were great, but woke up at 4 a.m., sweating and throwing up for hours. It was ruled out of Tuesday night's game due to food poisoning. Bladed on the undercooked wings was back Wednesday.

He said that he will not eat chicken wings for at least five years because even just the thought of it makes it sick. Midweek or major. Yeah, it makes me think of every bozo kid is like, I'll never touch tequila or gold slager. Whatever made him sick, you always associate it with that. So you stay away from it. So I'm waiting for that day that cookies makes me sick so I could avoid him for five years. Not Patrick's mom's cookies. Yeah, just not Patrick's mom's.

This is major. Definitely major. I think it's possible to stay away from a food for a lengthy period of time. I have two examples. I got so trashed off a tequila in college. And no joke. I dipped away for a good 10 years until I had a margarita again in like my mid-20s, late 20s. and I got sick off of just eating too many sour cream and onion potato chips as like a preteen.

Like I was eating, I must have like three cans of Pringle sour cream and onion. Didn't touch them for a decade. So I wouldn't be shocked if Bella drew went on a break. Can I just chicken wings are too good to give up though. Even if I got sick off them, like within a year, I'd be like, I need to eat. I love chicken wings. But if your memory, if your memory of them is like, I had to think about sourdough bread. I didn't eat it for about 15 years.

Oh, man. All right. Well, let's go to Dan Byer. Thank you, Spotty. for midweek major DB. What's up, buddy? Hey, Dan. Fellas, we got a walk-off home run in San Francisco.

Mike Yistremski just hit a two-run shot a few minutes ago, propelling the Giants over the Reds, 8 to 6 in 10. A busy, busy day in Major League Baseball. Yes, Rich Davis. I was going to say, did you see that adorable clip? Sorry to interrupt, DB. Mike Yostremski with like a 100-year-old veteran, and the guy's like, I used to love your grandfather.

It was the most touching moment. If you haven't seen this, look it up on X or Instagram or something. It really is. It's like the oldest old timer. And he's thrilled to meet Yostrowski because he's like, your grandpappy, I loved him. That's so cool. It's heartwarming. That is cool.

So the other action of Major League Baseball that was a walk-off variety of the walk-off variety happened in Pittsburgh. Joey Barton knocks in the run and the pirates can walk-off winners. They beat the Cardinals, 2 to 1 in 13 innings. here this afternoon. Fireworks in the daytime. It's got the same effect, but hey, I win for the Pirates today

and the Pirates Radio Network. I know you wanted to talk about wolves, dire wolves, not just wolves. You know that haven't existed for 10,000 years. We mentioned this yesterday.

You could play Game of Thrones music because dire wolves best known from Game of Thrones. And I bring that up because a lot of people

didn't know they were real. Yeah, dire wolves are real. They haven't been around for, again. Oh. Are they related to the timber wolves? They have the Minnesota dire wolves. The dire wolves. Oddly enough, scientists have

unextincted. What is this? This is badass. It's the rock out version. This is John Snow at Open Mic Night. Picture slash on a mountain top. So dire wolves, after 10,000 years, they've been unextincted, as they say. Is that really the term?

Unextincted? What do they always say, kids say? Unalived? Yeah, they say that because you can't say anything else on social media. Yeah. But unextincted. Now, that sounds like a stupid word. Are you sure that's the word?

It's not the word. I feel like that's a word we made up. Unstincted. Undead. I'm looking at that. You guys definitely made that up. George R.R. Martin. Of Game of Thrones.

creator is actually one of the few people who has got to see these dire wolves. He's holding one, right? These little pups up close and personal. And he said it's the greatest thing he's ever seen in his life. And it sort of makes sense that the guy who in the books, I know Big Mike who runs this place, you know, the guy Words of Wisdom. You know what about him? He was saying

cheese guy. He was saying, if you read the books, the dire wolves play even a bigger role. Oh yeah, I'm not doing that. I'll take Mike's word for it. So George R.R. Martin gets to hang in a hold these little dire wolves that have been extinct for 10,000 years. And I bring this up because the scientists who've done

this are saying, you know, we're going to and have the ability to do this with a woolly mammoth, the dodo bird, and all these other extinct animals. And you got to ask it. It was just a bird till Rich's ancestors got on top of it. It's true. Yeah. It's sat on it.

Until they started riding one. You know, don't talk about my ancestors like that. You know, that's very sensitive. So of all these saber-toothed tigers, Rich. What would you want to see? But I'm saying if... And by the way, doesn't this mess with the ecosystem?

My point is, if they isolate them in a zoo, a museum or something, the reality is, haven't we seen so many movies that warn us of this? Yeah, isn't this like ethically wrong? I'm not saying... I don't know. I'm not saying... I think it's cool. I'm not saying Jurassic Parks...

It's a bad... I'm not going to say Jurassic Park's going to happen. What would you want to see? Seriously, I'd want to see a pterodactyl. That would be insane. Did a teradactyl or saber- No, it's a tarotene. I'm sorry.

A saber-tooth tiger, a T-Rex. Of any one of the, like you said, a woolly mammoth. But here's the thing. Am I just getting way too, you know, into movies to think that pop culture has warned us that this doesn't end well? Or do you think we could, in museum and zoo form, bring back creatures from thousands of years ago? Is this a terrible idea or an awesome idea? We're doing it. Like, we often say that.

Yeah, rock on. Art imitates life, but there's a lot of times where life imitates art. And yeah, we've seen it in Jurassic Park. It could happen. AI. We saw it with AI. Absolutely how that's starting to change things. We've seen it with like 28 days, viruses and things like that.

Keep that in mind. If the world ends, we warned you today. Arrivederechi, baby. See you in the promised land. Goodbye. Later, guys. Hey, guys, it's us. The Jonas Brothers.

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