Hour 1 - Coach Rich & Fitness Fads

Summary

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The Dan Patrick Show: Hour 1 – Coach Rich & Fitness Fads

Date: February 28, 2026
Podcast Host: Dan Patrick (iHeartPodcasts / Dan Patrick Podcast Network)

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Episode Overview

This hour of The Dan Patrick Show, featuring Covino & Rich, is a lively deep-dive into the intersection of sports, nostalgia, and the ever-changing world of fitness fads. Broadcasting just ahead of baseball’s return, the hosts riff on the magic of Opening Day, Little League coaching, inspirational athlete stories, and the wild world of workout trends—from raw eggs to Shake Weights. The show’s humor and camaraderie shine as they blend sports talk, personal anecdotes, and pop culture riffs, keeping the energy high and the laughs coming.

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Key Discussion Points & Segments

The Magic of Opening Day and Baseball Nostalgia

[03:22 - 05:30]

• Rich reflects on the unique excitement of Opening Day in both kids’ sports and MLB.
  • “Is there anything more magical than an opening day in kids sports or the bigs?” – Rich [03:23]
• Covino reminisces about Little League parades, the snack shack, and the hope baseball brings every spring.
  • “There’s magic in the air, smell in the air.” – Covino [03:25]
• Encouragement for youth coaches to make watching Team USA in the World Baseball Classic mandatory for inspiration.
  • “I think it'll be great inspiration, great motivation for these kids...” – Covino [04:17]

Personal Fandoms and Evolving Sports Loyalties

[05:30 – 08:57]

• Rich and Covino admit growing more attached to individual players, even on rival teams, as they age, using examples like hanging with Dallas Goedert and Le’Veon Bell.
  • “As you grow up, you do start to appreciate certain players, of course, more than the team.” – Covino [07:07]
• Sound engineer Sam and Dan Byer chime in about rooting for local college players who make it to the pros.

Youth and Pro Player Inspiration: Ryan Lambert’s Story

[09:35 – 11:20]

• Covino introduces Mets pitcher Ryan Lambert, who went from being cut from his college team to making the opening day roster—all by transforming his physique.
  • The dramatic weight gain is driven by a staggering raw egg intake: “This guy's having 30 a day. That's a big boy. That's a beefcake.” – Covino [11:01]
• Rich reads Lambert’s outrageous egg regimen: “10 [raw eggs] in a cup at a time. 10 for breakfast...10 more after my workout, 10 before bed.” – [10:47]
• Hosts debate the dangers, cholesterol, and logistics of consuming 30 raw eggs a day.

Evolution of Pitcher Training & Athlete Development

[12:25 – 13:38]

• Discussion on how 100+ mph pitching used to be rare but is now a standard many prospects reach, with frequent mentions of MLB and fictional “Wild Thing” Rick Vaughn as benchmarks for speed.
  • “Now it's like, how are you not hitting over a hundred miles per hour?” – Covino [12:25]

Fitness Gimmicks and Diet Fads: From Retro to Today

[14:07 – 22:07]

• Throwback to infomercial fitness and diet crazes from childhood to today.
  • Callbacks include John Basedow, Tony Little, Body by Jake, Ab Roller, P90X, CrossFit, Orange Theory, the Bullworker, ThighMaster, Richard Simmons, Jane Fonda tapes, Jack LaLanne, Atkins, Weight Watchers, keto, and the carnivore diet.
  • “I did drop a significant amount of weight…pure vanity, because Rich and I were on ESPN.” – Covino (on trying keto) [18:39]
• Anecdotes about home equipment disasters—like resistance bands snapping and COVID-era attempts at home fitness.
  • “I'm doing, like, this thing snaps and hits me in the head…” – Rich [22:52]

Notable Quotes on Fitness Fads

• “Some of these people…[who] made or like came up with these diets, a lot of them didn’t live into their 80s and 90s. Jack LaLanne lived into his 90s…” – Sam [20:20]
• “Billy Blanks and Taebo—kick it like Taebo.” – Covino [21:17]
• “I took Rex Kwon Do to stay in...I was more into martial arts.” – Covino [21:29]

Listener Call-Ins: Audience Reminiscences

[24:31 – 36:03]

• Callers remember pasteurized eggs, the Gazelle, and a wave of fitness gadgets.
  • “Shake Weight from, like, the late 2000.” – Neil [35:04]
  • “I felt bad for every, like, local news woman who had to do, like, a demo and then went viral because of it…” – Rich [35:13]
• Reflecting on absurd inventions like vibrating belts and ab stimulators.

Personal and Family Fitness Memories

[45:16 – 47:30]

• Rich fondly recalls his childhood Hulkamania workout set, complete with hand squeezers, dumbbells, and a headband, inspired by Hulk Hogan’s motivational tape.
  • “How you doing all you little hucksters? This is the Incredible Hulk Hogan…” – Rich, playing the old tape [45:57]
• Covino admits to previously using an “ab shocker” device in Las Vegas for effortless “ab stimulation.”
  • “He's walking through a Vegas casino with an ab shocker on. And we're like, what are you doing?” – Rich [47:25]

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Memorable Moments & Notable Banter

• Egg-cellent Regimen: “This guy's having 30 a day. That's a big boy. That's a beefcake.” – Covino [11:01]
• Raw Egg Debate: “Would you do it if I brought an egg next week?” – Rich [11:26]
• CrossFit Affairs: “CrossFit… is like the number one place people have affairs. Did you know that?” – Rich [15:29]
• Home-Workout Fails: “I'm doing, like, this thing snaps and hits me in the head. I fall to the floor.” – Rich [22:52]
• Shake Weight Saga: “Shake Weight from, like, the late 2000.” – Caller Neil [35:04], “…Every, like, local news woman who had to do, like, a demo and then went viral because of it…” – Rich [35:13]
• Hulkamania Memories: Rich quotes the Hulk Hogan workout cassette [45:57]
• Ab Shocker Confession: “He's walking through a Vegas casino with an ab shocker on…” – Rich [47:25]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Opening Day & Youth Baseball – [03:22 – 05:30]
• Player Fandoms & Adult Loyalties – [05:30 – 08:57]
• The Ryan Lambert Raw Egg Method – [09:35 – 11:20]
• Pitching Speeds: Then and Now – [12:25 – 13:38]
• Fitness Fads & Home Workout Disasters – [14:07 – 22:07]; [22:19 – 23:14]
• Listener Fitness Memories – [24:31 – 36:03]
• Hulkamania & Personal Fitness Gimmicks – [45:16 – 47:30]

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Episode Tone and Style

Lighthearted, nostalgic, and full of rapid-fire banter, this episode blends sports talk with comedic riffs on pop culture and personal experiences. Covino, Rich, and their crew keep things relatable, poking fun at themselves and each other while inviting listeners to reminisce about their own infomercial-fueled fitness journeys.

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For Further Engagement

Listeners are encouraged to share their own fitness and diet fad stories and check out video content on the Covino & Rich YouTube channel. As always, episodes can be found wherever you get your podcasts.

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Transcript

[Podcast Announcer]

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[Covino]

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[Rich]

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[Rich]

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[Rich]

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[Covino]

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[Rich]

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[Covino]

FSR Covino and Rich on Fox Sports Radio. When we say strip clubs, we mean Magic City Nights in Atlanta. We'll explain because the Hawks are up to something, but yesterday we ran out of time, Rich.

[Rich]

We ran out of time every day. Which is why we have our bonus podcast over Promise, which is why you could hear all of it and see all of it on our YouTube channel, YouTube.com/@coveenonrich FSR. And before we get into all the stuff where we left off, I do want to ask, is there anything more magical than an opening day in kids sports or the bigs? Like when you talk about opening day, your Yankees are going to be part of opening day at Oracle in San Francisco.

[Covino]

Ooh, that's a good one.

[Rich]

It's like there's, there's something about.

[Covino]

There's magic in the air, smell in the air.

[Rich]

The. I don't know, they just so special about baseball starting.

[Covino]

I still remember flashing it back on a Friday, you know, the excitement of a Little League parade, snack shack opening. Yeah, you're holding your little banner and you're holding it up. You're marching with your team, getting all pumped up for the season.

[Rich]

Sounds corny, but I could argue that there's nothing more special.

[Covino]

It's pretty cool.

[Rich]

I mean, oh, first day of school is always like a thing where you like first day of school. But I don't know.

[Covino]

Baseball season represents a lot.

[Rich]

Springtime week one of the NFL, when you're locked into all the games, that's special. But something about baseball, I don't know why.

[Covino]

New beginnings, flowers loom, weather, break breaks. And it all starts this weekend and pretty much next week because we've been harping on it. March 4th is the start. Wednesday's the start of the WBC. We talked about it on our show yesterday. If you missed it, catch the podcast. But it goes from the 4th through the 17th. So, yeah, this weekend a lot of kids are getting ready for Little League or Pony ball or Babe Ruth League, whatever the kids are playing. And here's What I'm saying, I think you as a coach of Little League kids or Ponyball kids, I think you should make it mandatory for any youngster out there to watch Team USA and see this stacked lineup and watch all these stars together. I think it'll be great inspiration, great motivation for these kids, and I think they'll win the advantage. And watching them win is also inspiring to a little kid.

[Rich]

The advantage Team USA might have over arguably even more stacked teams like the Doctor and Japan. They're starters.

[Covino]

I know.

[Rich]

He said he's only going to go one game. I remember Dan Byers update saying that school's got one start in them. Skeens has two. How they spread those out? If you got school and Skeens, which, by the way, sounds like a law firm, if you have them pitching for

[Covino]

the US And Bednar closing it out, that's.

[Rich]

That's a pretty big advantage.

[Covino]

Oh, yeah, that team stacked. So if kids are excited about baseball and they're trying on their new cleats and breaking in their glove and putting on their uniform for the first time, get them excited about the wbc. I think that's going to be an awesome tournament to watch, for sure.

[Rich]

You know what's funny for me? Dan Byer, he played for one of your teams. You're a Brewers guy. Jeff Supon runs West Hills Pony Ball, which my kid plays at. And it's hilarious how I deal with this guy all the time and he's become a friend. He destroyed the Mets in 06. And there's a part of me in the back of my mind, I'm like, this mother.

[Covino]

You forgave him.

[Rich]

I may have. Because his greatest moment. So every time I talk to this guy, I'm like, your greatest Moment was Game 7 in the NLCS when the Cardinals beat the Mets. I was a fan in the stands. Sad.

[Covino]

Well, it's a testament to how cool he is in real life. If you put it behind you and, like.

[Rich]

And you are, you know, the NLCS mvp. And I'm like, yes, My. My Mets dreams were ruined by you.

[Dan Byer]

It does. In a weird way. And I think you guys know what. I'll say this on how stupid it is to be a fan.

[Rich]

It is because I'm like, this guy's like, the nicest guy. You're the guy that, like, ruined my.

[Dan Byer]

So irrational. But it's what we all are.

[Rich]

Can I tell you who said this to Covino once? We were on a red carpet and it was Antonio Brown before he lost his mind. And who was it at the time, who was their running back?

[Dan Byer]

Le'Veon Bell.

[Rich]

Le'Veon Bell.

[Covino]

It was.

[Rich]

We were at a Maxim magazine super bowl party, and Le'Veon Bell and Antonio Brown were joking around with Cavino at the bar and like, hey, you Steelers guy's like, no. And they said to Cavino, I don't see any other team hanging with you right now. Why wouldn't you be a Steelers guy?

[Covino]

And it really rooting for players and people as opposed to teams. And that doesn't mean I don't still appreciate your alliance. But as you grow up, you do start to appreciate certain players, of course, more than the team.

[Rich]

We spent a full day. We spent 12 hours, Covino and Rich doing a drug commercial with Dallas Goddard. I hate the Eagles. I wanted to rant about how I hate Philadelphia. I don't really, but.

[Covino]

But he's such a nice dude.

[Rich]

But we're hanging with Dallas Goddard and I'm like, how can I not root for the guy who we, like, hung with for 12 hours, had lunch, talked about life and family?

[Covino]

Okay to. All right, maybe not even root for. But respect certain players even though they're on opposing teams. You like their work ethic, you like their story, you root for them and their success. There's nothing wrong with that. What up, Iowa?

[Sam (Sound Engineer)]

Sam, I was going to say I have exclusive audio of Rich making his feelings known about the Eagles.

[Covino]

I hate the Eagles, man.

[Rich]

Man, I was. Sam, let me ask you, if some dude comes out of Iowa because you're more of a college guy, do you root for him no matter where he ends up?

[Sam (Sound Engineer)]

I definitely keep track of his career.

[Rich]

I mean, I always wonder that for people that care more about college football, because I wonder, hey, do you say, well, I'm going to follow the guys where. Where they play in the NFL if I'm more of a college guy. Like, if you're more of a. An Alabama guy and you're like, yeah, college football, way better. Do you just sort of track Alabama football players?

[Dan Byer]

You have 28 favorite teams.

[Rich]

Exactly.

[Sam (Sound Engineer)]

But like, like Iowa guys, like, if a guy goes like the Tennessee Titans, like, I'm not pulling for the Titans. I even be like, oh, Carl Klug, who played there a long time ago. I'm like, oh, yeah, does six sacks this year as a reserve? Like, I'll look that up, you know.

[Rich]

Go, Carl. All right. Well, hey, just baseball. You could smell it. It's in the less than a week to the World Baseball Classic. Then Cavino's Yanks and the Giants Start the season in San Francisco.

[Covino]

And if you're not putting it all together and you're not watching, which you should be, because you could watch. We hear at covino and Rich FSR on YouTube. Rich is rocking his coaching gear because the kiddos have their opening day game and parade. And I'm sure a lot of little league parents are dealing with the same stuff. So enjoy your weekend. Let's get into it. Remember, if you miss any of today's show, the best of the best of the week drops tomorrow. Danny G. Produces it. All of our podcasts are at Covino Enrich. Search Covino and Rich. Wherever you stream your podcast, rate it. Five stars. And again, we're streaming live right now.

[Rich]

You know what? I think we should pick up where we left off.

[Covino]

Yeah. Speaking of baseball, your boy, Ryan Lambert, the sheepish Lion Lambert. Ryan Lambert, Mets pitcher, was a frail and bedazzled kind of guy and put all this weight on. Now he's throwing cheese. This guy's throwing heat.

[Rich]

This guy is projected to make possibly the opening day lineup, which, by the

[Covino]

way, that's also cool to see not only a kid, but a big leaguer's progression. Like, he wasn't throwing heat. High heat. Mad Dog Russo style. Like this.

[Caller Manny]

High heat.

[Covino]

It's cool to see how a player develops and this kid puts some weight on.

[Rich]

Well, the story goes like this. He got cut from his college team and he just wasn't. Wasn't getting the radar gun up there. And he said, I got a beef up. Like Covino insinuated his diet to put on the weight, and the muscle is ridiculous. Now the guy's throwing gas over 100 miles an hour every pitch. They're saying this is possibly a weapon for the Mets out of the bullpen. They maybe didn't even predict Ryan Lambert. Listen to what this guy eats. To put on the weight, I'd put

[Dan Byer]

like 10 in a cup at a time. 10 for breakfast. I drink that, come back after my workout.

[Rich]

10 more, drink that, and then 10 before bed.

[Covino]

You're putting on a lot of mess. That's a lot of protein.

[Rich]

He's talking about raw eggs.

[Covino]

That's excessive. That's 25 more eg Rocky Balboa aid to start his morning routine. Rocky, as we established yesterday, five eggs to start his workout. To start his montage in the original Rocky 1976. Five eggs. This guy's having 30 a day. That's a big boy. That's a beefcake.

[Rich]

I got to ask everyone in the room, has anyone here ever Drank a raw egg?

[Covino]

Hell, no. It's da.

[Sam (Sound Engineer)]

It's dangerous because you get.

[Rich]

Would you do it if I brought an egg next week?

[Sam (Sound Engineer)]

Some other E. Coli, Right?

[Covino]

But, Sam, I'm sure there's a human resource problem with that.

[Rich]

The new ratings period starts soon. What if I'm tell pumped up. Everyone in the show needs to step it up. We all need to gain some muscle mass to be the best radio show in the afternoon.

[Covino]

We could be the most ripped radio show in all the land.

[Rich]

What if I was like, guys, I'm bringing in the raw eggs.

[Sam (Sound Engineer)]

Can I beef up with beef instead of egging up with egg?

[Covino]

Well, you need your protein. Eggs are a great source of protein. I'm not saying beef isn't, but, yeah, you know what? I wonder what his cholesterol level is. I'm serious. 30 eggs a day? That's insane.

[Dan Byer]

Does the danger of the raw egg get eliminated by the rest of the battery for the blueberry muffin mix because it's still raw egg, right?

[Rich]

Tell me that not everyone in this room till this day, when my wife or daughter or kids are making cupcakes or cake, I'm raw batter all day. Absolutely.

[Sam (Sound Engineer)]

That is true. Maybe we have an immunity to raw

[Rich]

eggs when you mix it with powder and flour and the sugar.

[Covino]

You know what else this proves, too? As we flash it back on a Friday, it proves that, you know, the game is ever changing and we're forever evolving. Because growing up, dude, if someone was clocking over 100 miles per hour, that was so few and far between, it was so rare. Now it's like, how are you not hitting over a hundred miles per hour? It just goes to show you that training and workouts have gone to the next level just for everybody in the league. Like, there's a similar story on the Yankee side of things. David Weathers son, Ryan Weathers, he wasn't throwing over a hundred miles per hour to start this spring training. Now all of a sudden, they're saying he's throwing over a hundred miles per hour. It's like, and these are young dudes. Look at araldis Chapman. He's 137 years old. I mean, look, he's still doing, what, 100, 107 miles per hour.

[Rich]

You could argue every one of these young stud pitchers is just, you know, it's a countdown to their first Tommy John.

[Covino]

It is. I get that. But, you know, random dudes, random guys, we're not talking superstars. Ryan Weathers and Ryan Lambert are not superstars.

[Rich]

We're talking about guys that are trying to make the roster.

[Covino]

They're throwing well over 100 miles per hour now. That's insanity.

[Rich]

Wild Thing Rick Vaughn, just for record, wasn't like, what did he throw? That's a great trivia question. What did the Wild Thing throw in the Movie Major League?

[Covino]

Because 101.

[Rich]

If it was 101, I think so. But that, do you remember that was like comically high.

[Covino]

Yeah, but it was a progression.

[Rich]

Remember it was like 99 something.

[Covino]

Yeah, but.

[Rich]

But that last progression when he struck out the.

[Covino]

That's my guess, by the way, when

[Rich]

he struck out that big fake Yankee. Yeah, that was supposed to be comically fast, like more than a regular big league.

[Covino]

Now Ryan Lambert throws harder than Wild Thing. Rick Vaughn, who wasn't throwing 100 is eaten 30 eggs. And he's probably got some crazy training that we see online. We see these guys training online all the time. You're aren't your boy. Our boy Joe Bimol runs a camp who. Where they do all this stuff. So Ryan Lambert, congrats. He's that dude. But it got us thinking, you know, he's eating 30 eggs a day. We sort of touched on this at the very end of yesterday's show. We got to continue today on our come up. What were some of the fun diet fads or workout gimmicks? So it could be a workout machine, it could be a diet fad, Whatever comes to mind. Because we grew up in the time of infomercials and John Bastow's Fitness Made simple and the Gazelle with Tony Little. Like we stayed up late watching this nonsense, buying Ab Rollers on infomercials our whole life. And I mentioned this one in the early 2000s. I don't think there was anything bigger than the rage, the P90X Tony Horton rage. I think everybody was working out from home or at least trying to give that a go. I mean, I know I did at one point.

[Rich]

90x is a P90x is huge. I never bootlegging that work. I never got pulled into the CrossFit world, which apparently is like the number one place people have affairs. Did you know that?

[Covino]

CrossFit.

[Rich]

Yeah. They say a lot of times when a husband or wife goes to CrossFit,

[Covino]

I could see like your whole mindset starts to change. You start feeling yourself. I think the two places confident you're working close with other people.

[Rich]

Two places people cheat the most.

[Covino]

CrossFit.

[Rich]

And if you're a contestant on Dance with the Stars.

[Covino]

Yeah, well, you know why? Because like you're building community. You guys are pushing each other. I can see that you're sweating together.

[Sam (Sound Engineer)]

What about ferals? Do people have affairs at ferals? You guys know what ferals is? Isn't that, like, similar to CrossFit? It's like station workouts.

[Rich]

I don't know that one. I know, like, Barry's boot camp. For a little while, Kavino and I were both doing Orange Theory, which.

[Covino]

That was a lot of cardio.

[Rich]

More women do than men.

[Covino]

But I don't know if my knees could handle that.

[Rich]

It was good to trim up. Like, I feel like I. That did work.

[Covino]

It was a lot of cardio, but, yeah, absolutely worked if you want to get your cardio up and you want to shed a few pounds. Orange theory. So what were those gimmicks?

[Rich]

You remember I bought a peloton during COVID Oh, yeah.

[Dan Byer]

Now you hang your clothes on it.

[Covino]

Yeah. Now it's a coat rack. So I remember. Like, my first and earliest memory is a little kid watching my dad exercise with his Pee Wee Herman workout set. And my dad. I always bring this up to Rich, and I don't even know if Rich knows what I'm talking about when I say it, but he had something in the late 70s, early 80s called the bull worker. And it was just one of those little, like, home devices where you push it in. Like, you're getting that chest flex, and then you're pulling out. So you're pushing in, and then you're pulling those ca. Cables out and you're pushing in. I remember my dad, like, you know, my dad was built like a. Like a stick figure in the 80s. Like Ron. He was built like Ron Guidry. Like, think of the athletes we admired growing up.

[Rich]

Your dad was.

[Dan Byer]

Googled it.

[Rich]

The bull worker bow. Yeah. Instead of Louisiana. Wasn't your dad New Jersey Lightning?

[Covino]

My dad was New Jersey Lightning.

[Podcast Announcer]

Yeah.

[Rich]

I weigh 155 pounds.

[Covino]

Soaking weight. Yeah. My dad's skinny Italian guy with his bull worker and his tighty whities.

[Rich]

5, 10, 150A. Really?

[Covino]

You know, my dad ate one slice of pizza that was his entire meal.

[Rich]

Didn't you say for a while your dad's diet consisted of black coffee, a pretzel rod, and a slice of pizza

[Covino]

and a few cigarettes when mom wasn't looking. Yeah, yeah. And three pretzel rods. So what were the fads? The bull worker, the ab roller. I definitely had an ab roller for years. For years.

[Dan Byer]

Also still in my garage. The Ab Scissor from Body by Jake.

[Covino]

Oh, yeah.

[Rich]

Body by Jake.

[Dan Byer]

Yeah, you pull down on the two bars, body by.

[Covino]

Jake had a lot of. He had a lot of like home workout Stu. And again, you know what they were marketing to A lot of stoners were staying up late at night back in those 90s and early 2000s days where we were like, yeah, I'm gonna get that and get in shape, man. If Chuck Norris can do it, I could do it.

[Rich]

Cavino, I remember, had to be, man, easily over five years ago now. Cavino got a little too thin. He did keto, which is not a fat. It's just more of a diet plan. But when you ate keto, it worked. But. But I remember there were two things you joked about. Keto breath.

[Covino]

Well, it was a thing.

[Rich]

Yeah, you get a little stank breath. But you looked, you look, you lose

[Covino]

weight, you get keto head too. You know what that means? Like where like your neck and head are all, like, nothing's balanced out.

[Rich]

You look like a bobblehead.

[Covino]

Yeah, yeah, I look like a big fat head on a skinny neck. Like, I lost too much weight too quick. But I did drop a significant amount of weight. You know what? I did that too, out of pure vanity, because Rich and I were on espn and I was like, I'm on espn. I don't want to be the chubby vato that everyone sees every night. And I lost weight quick. So it works if you stick to it, but then you gain everything back if you. If you don't stay committed.

[Dan Byer]

Well, I was going to say Rich. One of the OG crazes of the 80s. She sold 17 million videos in 82 through 95. Yeah.

[Rich]

Is it Suzanne Somers with the ThighMaster?

[Dan Byer]

No, no.

[Covino]

Wow.

[Dan Byer]

The other big titan in the industry, Jane Fonda's workout tapes.

[Sam (Sound Engineer)]

I had ThighMaster written down.

[Covino]

I thought for you're going to say thigh mask.

[Rich]

You know what's interesting? I'd like to think whether people go or not, so many adults own a gym membership. You may not go, you may go. But I would, I would think a majority of adults at some point owned the gym membership when we were kids. Of course there's going to be exceptions. There'll be people like my mom or dad worked out, but our parents. Your dad may have had 25 pound dumbbells in the garage and where your mom did like some VHS video in the, in the living room, your mom

[Covino]

put on her let's get physical Olivia Newton John outfit and maybe hit Jack lalanne like tw, like the Jack Lane power juicer. I was obsessed with that I bought

[Sam (Sound Engineer)]

that from my parents.

[Covino]

It's a, it's a, you know, I say it respectfully, but a fad. Right? Like everybody went through that phase. Everybody.

[Rich]

We have a buddy that swears by and I don't know if it's healthy. He'll tell you it is the carnivore diet where all you eat is meat. So like there's. There's trends, there's gimmicks. Some work, some don't. People swear by these things. So let's, let's hear about them.

[Sam (Sound Engineer)]

If you look up some of these people like did the. What's the. It's like someone's name is the diet. What are you thinking about here? Atkins Diet. If you look up some of these people. Carbs who made or like came up with these diets, a lot of them like didn't live. They lived in like their 60s and 70s. They didn't live into their 80s and 90s. Jack Lane lived into his 90s because he was an original like bodybuilder back in the day.

[Rich]

Wasn't Jack Olaine doing like one hand push ups?

[Sam (Sound Engineer)]

He was like pulling cars.

[Covino]

Jack Palance.

[Rich]

Oh, that's Jack Palance.

[Covino]

Okay. But Jack Lane was always like doing physical activity on talk shows and showing off how strong and in shape he was for an old guy. So your memories. You know what else is a big fad too Rich in our come up. I'd say early 2000s, up until not too long ago.

[Rich]

Can I guess?

[Covino]

Yeah.

[Rich]

I feel like I'm reading your mind.

[Covino]

Okay.

[Rich]

Because he still does a class that one of the moms at school.

[Covino]

I'm thinking of a piece of equipment.

[Rich]

Oh, I was gonna say there's a mom at the school that asked my wife. Asked my wife to go with her. Do you want to go? Because he does personal classes again.

[Covino]

Billy Blanks and Tybo kick it like Tybo.

[Rich]

He lives in the Valley. He still does classes out here. Billy Blanks, which that infomercial aired non stop. He got a shout out from what? Akon. Kicking it like Ty.

[Covino]

People were kicking it like Tybo. I. I took a. I was one of the only guys. I took Rex Kwondo to stay in. Yeah, I was more into martial arts.

[Dan Byer]

But didn't sir mix a lot mentioned Jane Fonda workout tapes by Fonda? Yeah.

[Rich]

In the back of your Honda. Yeah.

[Covino]

And I kind of don't want none. I don't know the name of it, but the contraption that goes over your doorway to do pull ups. I think everybody had that one. Yeah. You know the pull up bar that goes over your doorway.

[Rich]

Can I give you guys an embarrassing story?

[Covino]

How many people, like, fell off that thing or ripped off the molding of their doorway with that, I have an embarrassing story.

[Rich]

During COVID you know, when we're all trying to work out and, you know, you're trying to do something at home. Bought the peloton, did all that. I bought resistance bands that you could, like, attach to a door.

[Covino]

Yeah.

[Rich]

And stupid me, this is embarrassing.

[Covino]

You could just say you. Yeah, you, we, me. Okay. Rich Davis.

[Rich]

I didn't realize that it has to be in the direction of the door that doesn't open. Meaning, like, if it's a closet door, you can't do it on a closet door. You need to do it on a door where the resistance.

[Covino]

Oh, man.

[Rich]

You know what I'm saying? Like, am I describing it correct?

[Covino]

Yeah. Like, you're pulling it. Like, if it's closed, you got to pull it closed.

[Rich]

Yeah.

[Covino]

Right.

[Rich]

Yet it has to be in the direction of the door naturally closing.

[Covino]

Right.

[Rich]

I did it in the direction where the door would open.

[Covino]

Yeah.

[Rich]

So I'm doing like. I got the resistance bands. I'm doing, like, this thing snaps and hits me in the head. I fall to the floor. I'm like, oh, my wife thought. She's like, why take you to the hospital?

[Covino]

2020?

[Rich]

Yes.

[Covino]

Is that what happened to you? I feel like. I feel like you're a weird guy. Like, for the past five, six years, it probably is. He's never been the same.

[Rich]

It was. Honestly, I likely got a mild concussion. I remember laying on the floor like, why am I so dumb? I didn't realize you had to do it.

[Sam (Sound Engineer)]

The resistance band, was it Anthony Richardson for the Colts?

[Covino]

Same injury during the resistance band.

[Sam (Sound Engineer)]

It, like, hit him in the eyeball. He was, like, on the injured list because of that.

[Covino]

Those things are dangerous. I find resistance bands not the ones you put up to your door, but just regular resistance bands. They're useful if you're traveling a lot. Right. So you could just put them in your bag, get a quick pump on.

[Rich]

You ever see something slip and it hits them in the ball?

[Covino]

Yes. Yes. But they're fun to travel because atrophy kicks in quick. Again, we're talking fitness gimmicks and diet fads that we've grown up with. And when we say gimmicks and fads, we're not saying it from a negative place. Some of them were weak, but some of them are legit, too. We're bringing this up Because Ryan Lambert of the Mets is on this 30 eggs a day routine and he did put on some mass and he's throwing heat now. So what are some of those diet gimmicks and fads that you tried out that you remember? 87799.

[Rich]

I'm sure there's athletes in all sports that have some type of concoction they eat or drink before every game or some type of, you know, rhythm, some, some method, I'm sure. Let's take one phone call now. We'll take the rest when we come back. What do we got, Dan?

[Dan Byer]

A quick shouts out to Dave in Vermont. I just hung up with him a second ago. He had the same answer as Dave in West Virginia. Who got through first.

[Rich]

What's up, Dave?

[Caller Manny]

Hey, guys. Hey. Eggs are pasteurized now, so they're completely. I'm not a, I'm not a doctor or an expert, but eggs are pasteurized. You can eat as many raw eggs as you want to. Also pony Little, the guy with the big long ponytail hanging out the back of his house. Adam the Gazelle. Yeah, Love that.

[Covino]

That dude was, yo. You know what? That dude was entertainment. Especially if you were up late at night, you see him was hat on doing the Gazelle all night long. You're like, I need one of those things.

[Rich]

Did you get one? We'll take the rest of your feedback and we will talk some baseball. Magic City night in the NBA. We'll talk some NBA freak injuries. We played Brainwave. A lot of fun. Thanks for chilling with Kavin on Rich at Fox Sports Radio.

[Covino]

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[Rich]

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[Chelsea Handler / Tara Davis Woodhull / Hunter Woodhull]

Hey, this is U.S. olympic gold medalist Tara Davis Woodhull.

[Rich]

And I'm U.S. paralympic gold medalist Hunter Woodhull.

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[Rich]

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[Covino]

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[Rich]

Conditions and restrictions may apply. You're telling me. Ryan Lambert Almost eggs as Gaston.

[Covino]

No one's cool as Gaston. In fact, if I ever have a son, I think I might name him Gaston. It's like, what a strong, masculine name.

[Rich]

Gaston Covino does have a ring to it.

[Covino]

It has a ring to it, right? You can see him. He could be playing for the Yankees now. Budding Gaston Covino. That'd be dope. I didn't know what number to assign him. I know Yankees. Retired, most of them.

[Rich]

So they're retiring CC Sabathia. And like I love Cece. Yes, yes, yes.

[Covino]

Captain Crunch Sabathia.

[Rich]

Worthy or no, and I hate to

[Covino]

say it, he's a Hall of Famer. He won a World Series with the Yanks in 09.

[Rich]

People don't realize. What's the fun fact? It's actually Captain Crunch Sabathia. Captain Crunch.

[Covino]

Yep.

[Rich]

Yeah.

[Covino]

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[Covino]

Available at Amazon and major retailers nationwide. Dude wipes best clean. Pants down. Now, Rich's boy, we're getting you fired up for baseball. Rich's boy. Ryan Lambert, young Mets pitcher, trying to make the team, trying to make the teams. Eating 30 eggs a day. He beefed up. Now he's throwing cheese, he's throwing cheddar, he's throwing heat, high heat, he's throwing gas. Over a hundred miles per hour now and it just got us thinking like 30 eggs a day. It's ridiculous.

[Rich]

What have you done to get in shape? What have you done gimmick wise, you know, workout equipment?

[Covino]

Like we all seen all this evolve, right? Like I remember in the early mid-90s when the protein bar started to boom and and how terrible metrics bars tasted. And now we have these barbells that taste better than Snickers barbell bars. Protein bars. 21 grams of protein or whatever and they taste delicious. But back then, let me tell you, I lived the struggle and I acquired the taste of those old school terrible metrics bars.

[Rich]

For years, old school protein bars tasted like cardboard. Like you said now at the gym, you would turn me onto something. They look like pop Tarts.

[Covino]

What are those new ones too? David Bar. Are they David?

[Rich]

What's the one you're talking? There's a. It's like a pop Tart.

[Covino]

They're all so good.

[Rich]

Protein pop Tarts. So we've come a long way. But what are those gimmicks? You know, you said back when you were a kid, your dad had the bull worker. Moms and dads in the 80s might have been doing, you know, Jane Fonda or Jack LaLanne. The fitness world has come a long way and the diet fad world has come a long way with keto and carnivore and you know, back in the day, remember Weight Watchers and Atkins? We've all tried something but if you

[Sam (Sound Engineer)]

want to ask me, was it Jenny Craig?

[Rich]

Jenny Craig was one. Oh, my mother in law is all about Marie Callender.

[Covino]

Wasn't that one too Weight Watchers? Weight Watchers, yeah. What was her name? Susan Powder was a fitness person. Richard Simmons deal the meals like we've seen it all. So which ones factor which ones are. Didn't Rich used to sweat to the oldies? Weren't you like, come on baby, is that how you burnt Those love handles.

[Rich]

Oh, I'm sorry.

[Covino]

You know what?

[Rich]

Let's go to Manny.

[Covino]

You know, sometimes I feel the vibes through the phone.

[Rich]

Manny Camino felt your vibe. Sorry, dude.

[Covino]

What up, Manny?

[Caller Manny]

Well, no, I remember the Richard Simmons went to the oldies. They would play those videos for us at an elementary school for P.E. sometimes. So there's this little tiny TV with, like, 50 kids, and all you can hear is Richard Simmons. Come on. Everybody twist and shout. And there goes Everybody twist and shout.

[Covino]

You know what?

[Caller Manny]

Even Chubby Checker came out to one of those videos.

[Covino]

You made me think of two things. And I appreciate you, Manning. Thanks for calling 877-99-FOX. There's a misconception. There's a Mandela effect with Richard Simmons. Anytime someone is Richard Simmons for Halloween, they always rock a headband. And Richard Simmons, I think you're confusing with John McEnroe or something. He never really wore a headband. But anytime someone's like, I'm a pony.

[Rich]

I'm a pony.

[Covino]

And twisting and shouting, dealing a meal, they wear a headband. He didn't wear headbands. Pauly Shore portrays him on social media. I don't know if you've ever seen that. He's trying to make a movie about him. And he also made me think of. He says during recess when he were. When he was a kid, they would watch it. Does everybody or does anybody remember Slim Good Body as a kid? Slim Good Body. Sam, you remind me of Slim Good Body. Look him up.

[Rich]

He's like the fitness cartoon.

[Covino]

He wasn't a cartoon. He was the guy that wore a body.

[Rich]

The bodysuit. You see the muscles and bones.

[Covino]

They would show us his videos when we were kids, all the time. Slim, goodbye.

[Sam (Sound Engineer)]

Know what you're talking about.

[Covino]

He would teach you. Try to stay healthy. All right, who else do we got?

[Dan Byer]

Let's go to Virginia. Neil.

[Rich]

Virginia. What's up, Neil? What's up?

[Caller Manny]

Cnr, man. I love you guys.

[Covino]

You're the man.

[Rich]

Let's go. What do you got?

[Covino]

Thank you, man.

[Rich]

I got. Man.

[Caller Manny]

Probably the most inappropriate one is the Shake Weight from, like, the late 2000. Inappropriate.

[Rich]

Let me tell you. I felt bad.

[Covino]

I felt she was real big into that.

[Rich]

I felt bad for every, like, local news woman who had to do, like, a demo and then went viral because of it. Like, let me. What do I do with this shit?

[Covino]

Rich's forearms got really big. I remember. Yeah, like, it works.

[Sam (Sound Engineer)]

Definitely. The Shake Weight looks kind of silly.

[Covino]

That is funny, man.

[Rich]

Shake Weight do anything or what?

[Covino]

I'm sure it did. No, it was.

[Sam (Sound Engineer)]

Yeah, it worked.

[Covino]

Shake Weight.

[Rich]

Can I tell you what it.

[Covino]

How about this one? I can only demonstrate it. I can't really describe it here. If you're watching on YouTube. Covino, Rich, FSR I think it was a Tony little gimmick where you're like all the sliding back and forth. Who was that?

[Sam (Sound Engineer)]

Heavyweights. Heavyweights. They were doing it. Remember Ben Stiller's.

[Covino]

Yeah, you're right. Tony Sliding around.

[Sam (Sound Engineer)]

Is that his character's name?

[Rich]

I gotta. I gotta ask you. You just do that the whole show? Please. Just the whole show. I bet you in between every commercial you should do at the whole commercial break, you'll be ripped.

[Covino]

Yeah, bro.

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[Rich]

I don't know why. I can't be the only one whose grandparents in their basement had some weird thing like a belt they put around them. And what did that. What did that do? Does anyone know that off. It was like. It was like a belt that went around. Like, didn't your grandfather used to get

[Covino]

hit in the belly with a. With a. With a cannonball? It was the vibration.

[Rich]

SW.

[Sam (Sound Engineer)]

I actually think that does work. And where people would get into that box where it'd like steam your body

[Covino]

from the neck down.

[Rich]

Listen, you know what worked?

[Covino]

We've tried everything. This works. Rich and I again. Rich and I, Danny, we've all worked in radio. Dan Byer forever, right? So people would often pitch their products to us or send us freebies, promotional items. Hey, talk about this one time. Rich and I got perfect push ups in the mail. And I still have those. And I swear and stand by them

[Rich]

because a push up is also great by itself. But the range of motion you get from perfect push up really is good. That is.

[Covino]

I remember those. And he like, turn a little bit. And then there's other ones where you have the little. You put them in the. In the pegs or whatever. But could I. Those push up things really do help.

[Rich]

Here's what I got to do. I want to go to Dan Byer now because I have an embarrassing Cavino story.

[Covino]

Oh, I can't wait.

[Rich]

And I have my first ever workout. I have audio. We'll get to that. But D.B. what's doing, guys?

[Dan Byer]

The Dallas Cowboys are placing the non exclusive franchise tag on wide receiver George Pickens. Teams have until Tuesday to place the franchise tag or transition tag on players. Pickens would make more than $27 million if he signs the tag and plays under it in 2026. Teams have and the player have until mid July to come to terms on a long term agreement. Pickens also would have to sign the tag to play under the deal. Today at the NFL combine, potential number one overall pick Fernando Mendoza caught up with Colin Coward. Just kidding. You just spoke with the media today about the possibility of joining the Raiders and Tom Brady.

[Rich]

Tom Brady, I believe, is the greatest

[Covino]

quarterback of all time by a wide margin.

[Rich]

And to be able to have the

[Dan Byer]

opportunity to be mentored by him, it

[Covino]

would mean so much.

[Dan Byer]

In other NFL news, the salary cap for next season is going to be $301 million, up 22 million from last season. Spurs center Mason Plumlee signed a deal with the team through the rest of the season. Cav Scar James Harden questionable to face the Pistons tonight. Donovan Mitchell's out for that game. Rich, your Mets have named the newly acquired Freddy Peralta as their opening day starter against the Pirates on March 26th. Incognizing classic, second round wrapping up Austin Smotherman leads at 11 under par. Brooks Koepka. One of the stories this week. Nine back at minus two. Back to you guys.

[Rich]

Thanks, Dan. Bio. Let's see if Colin changed his mind at all from yesterday. I've got it all. What do you want to know? Hey, Colin, do you feel bad for stealing Fernando Mendoza from Covino and retro Rich at all? No, I don't. I don't feel bad.

[Covino]

This is big boy media and Fernando

[Rich]

Mendoza is the number one pick story right now.

[Covino]

So you go get the quarterback. Covino and Rich are grinders.

[Rich]

I respect them. But super bowl week is chaos and guests pivot. Blame the reps, blame the schedule, blame the circus. And by the way, if Mendoza's that detail obsessed, humble, I'm unemployed guy, he fits Las Vegas like a glove. Real talk, do you buy Mendozas?

[Covino]

Okay, Real talk. I blame real talk. Colin. I still blame Colin.

[Rich]

Love him.

[Covino]

All right, so we're going to take your phone calls and Rich is going to tell us, you know, how he got so ripped as a kid.

[Rich]

We'll, we'll, we'll wrap it next and we got a lot to get to. Brainwave, you said Magic City. Take it over Atlanta and the Hawks. We'll get to all that and more next on Conveno.

[Covino]

And Rich, ready to tackle your financial goals? Rich with we bowl, you don't have to sit on the sidelines anymore.

[Rich]

Let's see how the market do today.

[Covino]

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[Covino]

You got to stop asking Colin and start asking Webull. Yeah. Join Webull's Community Stop striking out with your financial future. Join Webull's community to discuss markets, trending topics and ideas of fellow investors. Download the Webull app today on mobile or desktop, W E B U l or visit webull.com Webull Financial LLC member

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[Covino]

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[Rich]

If you're tired of outrage, if your thumbs are sore from doom scrolling, or you just need a reason to smile again, this podcast is your new favorite Scroll Break. It's heartfelt, hopeful and a gentle reminder that goodness is still out there. And it's surprisingly contagious. So put down your phone, pick up your faith in humanity and join Jenna for the Ripple Effect. It's a reminder that you could start a ripple that changes everything. Listen to the ripple Effect on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcasts.

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[Chelsea Handler / Tara Davis Woodhull / Hunter Woodhull]

Hey, this is US Olympic Gold medalist

[Rich]

Tara Davis Woodhull and I'm US Paralympic Gold medalist.

[Chelsea Handler / Tara Davis Woodhull / Hunter Woodhull]

As athletes, our lives are about having

[Rich]

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[Chelsea Handler / Tara Davis Woodhull / Hunter Woodhull]

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[Covino]

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[Covino]

It just dawned on me that this song sort of starts like Jamie's Crying by Van Halen. Anyway, Covino and Rich kind of wow, Iowa. Sam's our sound architect. He agrees. I want to shout out Slim Good Body. I feel like I'm the only guy that remembers him. Slim Good Body for life. He taught me life lessons in school. Like, yes, Good body.

[Rich]

Was that when you weren't watching? Like, remember I'm a Bill.

[Covino]

What is that? I'm a Bill.

[Rich]

Yes.

[Covino]

Conjunction Junction Danny G's on the phones at 87799 on Fox Covino and Rich live from Fox Sports Radio Studio. And it's time for our Tire Rack Play of the day. Tyrese Maxey made some Sixers history with their Win over the heat trend in

[Rich]

Watford off the drive back to maxi.

[Caller Manny]

This is for the all time record. It's good. Maxey making it three out top and he now leads leads the Sixers franchise and all time three pointers man.

[Rich]

Franchise leader, franchise leader Tyrese Maxey. That's courtesy of Sixers radio network our tire rack play of the day. And for over 40 years Tire Rack's been helping customers find the right tires for how, what and where they drive ship fast and free. Backed by free road hazard protection with convenient installation options like mobile tire installation. Tirerack.com the way tire bunk should be.

[Covino]

Now Rich, I'm not going to interrupt, but you said you had something from the childhood and something about me to wrap up fitness gimmicks and diet fads.

[Rich]

Oh, no doubt. Yeah.

[Covino]

Courtesy of Ryan Lambert, who eats 30 eggs a day for the Mets.

[Rich]

As I was. Sam pointed out the heats half of the eggs that Gaston ate in Beauty and the Beast. Man, guys, unbelievable. 30 eggs a day and now he throws over 100.

[Covino]

Does Ryan use antlers in all of his decorating?

[Rich]

It's very Gaston, like very Gastonic. When I was a kid, I had to be no older than my son now like five or six years old. And I remember getting for Christmas a big box. It was the Hulkamania workout set. And it had the little hand squeezers, had five pound dumbbells, a headband, a belt and a cassette tape. Does anyone remember this?

[Caller Manny]

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

[Rich]

How you doing all you little hucksters? This is the Incredible Hulk Hogan, the WWF Heavyweight Champion of the World. And I'm really excited about this new Hulkamania workout set. Me too. You know, the holster is 6 foot 7, 2 inches from heaven and I weigh 305 and I can whip any man alive. But the Hulkster still has to keep himself in shape. I eat my vitamins, I say my prayers, and I exercise every day because keeping my body fit is very important to me.

[Covino]

Is that how you got those six inch pythons?

[Rich]

Way to go, 24, bro.

[Covino]

Way to go, Rich. Everybody had that.

[Rich]

Of course.

[Covino]

And that hand grip is still floating around my house somewhere.

[Rich]

Probably.

[Covino]

Probably it's in the attic somewhere.

[Rich]

Now to wrap up the dumb gimmicks, I got to throw you under the bus real quick because I remember one time we were in Las Vegas. We're in Las Vegas walking through a casino. Danny G. This. You're gonna. You're gonna look at me and be like, yeah, that tracks completely. Being that you've known Cavino for like, five years now he knows where I'm going. We're walking through a casino.

[Covino]

Yeah.

[Rich]

And I see Covino wince. Like, I'm like, dude, you okay? Like, I thought maybe he had, like, a. Ate bad food. He had a cramp or something. And he's like. And I go, what are you doing? He's like, nothing. I go, lift up your shirt a little. Covino had one of those ab shockers on that you put, like, you know, you put, like, jelly on your belly. You wrap it, and it gives you a little

[Covino]

casino. And I think I sizzled my abs. Yeah.

[Rich]

He's walking through a Vegas casino with an ab shocker on. And we're like, what are you doing?

[Covino]

This is ab stimulation, bro. It works. You know, that was my laziest of days, because, remember, that's when I started my own workout called bed sit ups. Remember, I was doing bed sit ups.

[Rich]

He's like, what if you guys, you know, before bed, you just did, like, you know, 25 bed Sit Ups Cove.

[Dan Byer]

That's the same gel they use for ultrasounds.

[Covino]

Rub it on my belly. Yeah.

[Rich]

Well, hey, any feedback? We're always here at Covinonrich, and of course, you can watch what we're doing on the YouTube channel. YouTube.conononrichfsr now, we got brainwave coming up next hour. We already talked about fad diets. We talked about.

[Covino]

We gotta talk. Magic City Monday.

[Rich]

Yeah, Magic, by the way, Monday coming up in March.

[Covino]

Magic City Monday.

[Rich]

Now, if you know of Atlanta and you know of Magic City, it is arguably one of the more popular gentlemen's establishments around the country. Magic City in Atlanta. A famous spot. Made a lot. Made mostly famous by a lot of athletes, to be honest.

[Covino]

Rich became a man at Magic City.

[Rich]

I remember.

[Covino]

He's never been the same.

[Rich]

Listen, it's predominantly African American women. They're known for their lemon pepper wings.

[Covino]

And it's a scene, according to Lou Williams, Right? That's the famous story.

[Rich]

Yeah.

[Covino]

And I remember that's one of the best stories. We got to talk about that again.

[Rich]

And I've been there, and I have a story. And we got to talk about how on earth are the Atlanta Hawks going to make Magic City night family friendly? I'm intrigued.

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