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We're gonna talk about the Dodgers and how they duped us all. Don't over promise. I'm gonna try not to. But I do want to say 25 years ago today, a show debuted on HBO. Not a spinoff, but from the creator of the most successful sitcom in network history. Pretty, pretty, pretty good. Larry David debuted curb youb enthusiasm 25 years ago today. So that's one of Those holy Nikes. 25 years ago then. How many years ago was it when we were watching First Intend, the Bulls Beam Business and Dream on and all those shows on Instagram? That must have been 125 years ago. 25 years ago, Curb youb Enthusiasm debuted and I always thought it was one of the best comedies. I actually hot take. I like Kirb better than Seinfeld. Sometimes it's a little more raw, a little more relatable. I don't know about that. The thing about Curb though is it took like didn't take at least one break so you say 25 years and it just ended what, two seasons ago or a season ago. Yeah, but they took like a nine year hiatus or something and there are breaks in between and there weren't long seasons like Seinfeld. But when you think about all the comedy Larry David's brought us between those two shows, so props to him. 25 years since Curb. So just a little timestamp today as we hang in for the great Dan Patrick here on Fox Sports Radio. I love how they solved a murder mystery because Larry David was filming during a Dodgers game. That is wild. And we're going to get to the Dodgers. I do want to bring up one thing that's a true story you can look up on your own time. We're going to talk Dodgers and baseball playoffs and NFL, but don't blink because another NBA season is going to be here before you know it. I did think it was cool to hear the return of Round ball Rock, the John Tesh theme that we all love so much. Bigger fan of John Tesh than you. Rich listens to him on the regular side. Never listen to Josh Tesh in my life. He's excited for the rest of the world to join his fun. The peacock announcer was just casually talking over the intro of this NBA preseason game with that playing behind him and it just made you feel. Yeah. Like a kid again. Basketball. Yeah. You hear this song, it's slide dunk it and you play with that. Yeah. Did everyone have that Nerf hoop that went over the door? Yep. You get all ready for some basketball. I just back John Touch is back. That song is so synonymous with great 90s NBA that we all grew up with that made us fall in love maybe with basketball. Right. So the return of Round Ball Rock. But let's go to the Dodgers for a second last night. I talked about this earlier, but the more I'm thinking about it. Did the Dodgers do bus Covino by like Mark Duper? Like not intentionally, but by not winning 110 games by battling for that division until the last weeks of the season with the Padres. By not only. No, it's not the Dodgers duping us or did they f with us only to show up big and be that team all along? It's shame on us for not realizing the obvious of it's a long season, health is wealth and we should have known that if everybody's healthy come post season, they're going to be impossible to beat. And that was the goal. And that's the goal. And everyone pitching was what is, what is the thing that applies to all sports, just get into the playoffs and be healthy and ready for when you're in. I just. I can't say that I wasn't surprised. I think we were all surprised that the Dodgers barely won their division and they were the three seed, which means they had to play in the wild card round. No one would have ever thought the Dodgers would win roughly 90 games. Have to play in the wild card and go through all this and have to click though at the right time. And sure enough, Muncie's hitting bombs, Tay Oscar's hitting bombs. Kiki Hernandez is turning it up like he always does, and every single guy you just mentioned missed a good amount of time. Yeah. As Ron Darling said, Kike Hernandez look like Keith Hernandez in the playoffs. I saw that. Yeah. But you guys on the Afternoon show, you talk about this often, that baseball's a little bit different because no matter your record, no matter exactly what went on through that long season, it's just whatever team is hot at the time, we've seen the San Francisco Giants and other teams like that come together right before the playoffs at the exact perfect time and then make a run. No doubt. In fact, the stat goes, of the 30 years since they incorporated the wild card, since the Major League Baseball strike, and then they came back again with the new realignment, since then, 30 seasons. Only seven of those 30 seasons has the team with the best record won the World Series. Which is. Which is really interesting when you think how 23 out of 30 years, it was really just a team that put it together, got healthy, got hot in October. And, you know, that's just. You're seeing with the Dodgers because the brewers were the best team all along. Thank you, Dwayne. Stats. And speaking of stats, you got a tip your hat. I got a flat brim on today because. How do you feel about that, by the way? Well, I feel like certain hats are made to be worn. Certain ways I rock a sweet curve. I curve them like the best of them. Can you be a guy that does both? I feel like my curve is like Flash Gordon's, bro. I can curve it up. Yeah, you can. Because certain hats are meant to be curved and other hats are meant to be. Flatbirds are not meant to be caged. It depends on what type of hat it is. But speaking of hats, Yamamoto was rocking his Dodgers hat strong yesterday. Complete game, the first since 2017. First postseason complete game. Last person to do it was Verlander against the Yankees all those years ago. And the Dodgers haven't done it since 04. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, known as Danny G. I'm hung up on your hat for a second. I'm sorry, what? I'm just. By the way, it's funny to think that the baseball hat, a piece of sports equipment is such a universally. What would you say? Accepted fashion statement. Yeah. No one wears a chef's hat as Mitch Hedberg. Mitch Hedberg has some line about like you only wear that if you're a chef. Baseball hurts. Yeah. And Jalen hurts. That's the funny one. Unless you're the sweetest chef or Jalen hurts. Baseball hat is pretty much the only hat from sports that we rock on a regular basis. Here's one more pitching stat for you. Blake Snell in Yoshi Yamamoto are the first starters since 2016 to throw eight plus innings in consecutive postseason games. And yeah, so when you're starting pitching is delivering like that. The Dodgers are going to be hard to beat. They didn't have that in the regular season. And we forget that in the preseason in spring training before all the injuries happened, the whole joke was how deep they were. Yeah. And they got Blake Snell. When they signed Blake Snell that was almost like an F you to everyone else. Like all right, defending champions. Well, hold on. And you added Blake Snell and now. But then he didn't play all season because he was hurt. It's. But the Dodgers fans dreams are coming to fruition. Your big free agent should have thrown a complete game win in game one. But you know, Dave Roberts, you know, wanted to, you know, toy with everyone. Game two, your Japanese signs pitcher that you outbid people for in one. Yamamoto did what you wanted him to do. Signature moment. Now what? What's next Glass now if he gets it done. And then what? Game four you go to the biggest star in baseball over the last 50 plus years, Shohei Otani. So arguably the Dodgers are doing everything we thought they would do six months ago. It just the last six months of injuries and confusion made us forget maybe for a second reminding everybody that they are the new evil empire. Without a doubt. And that with likable players though, you know, it's hard to deny it really is. Yeah. I mean I saw. I just hate their stupid hip flexor dance. I love that. That's what makes me like that. Yeah, they are likable Cove. I saw Yankees fan like you post yesterday. You know what? Yes, I hate the Dodgers, but it's hard to root against some of the players because I like a couple of the players on the team. Could you not like Mookie Betts? Yeah, they're just not like Freddie. They have magic. They have Magic Johnson smiles. How could you not like Shohei Ohtani? He transcends, you know, fandom. He's just every. Everybody. And Danny, as I've pointed out before, you know, we're new to the Dan Patcher audience for a lot of people. I'm a Mets fan from New York. My kids are 5 and 8, and I see them falling in love with the Dodgers because we live out here in Los Angeles. All their little schoolmates and all the kids, they play little league and softball and baseball with like the Dodgers. So I'm watching them, wanting to hate them as a Mets fan, but it's hard to see why my kids wouldn't like, like you said, Freddie Freeman, Mookie Betts, Shohei Will Smith, Tommy Edmond, these guys at tay Oscar, like, they're. It's. It's hard to really say they're hateable. It's like when Steph and the Golden State warriors winning and you're like, how do you. How do you hate Steph Curry? It was very hard. I mean, I started hate Freddie Freeman's flat top. I don't, I don't really. I'm not a fan of that. Those big chompers, that smile, his chompers bothered me. I mean, Clayton Kershaw, that story where you got to see him sort of close out the career the right way and that he's, you know, I don't know, it just feels like. And even Max Muncie dumped by the A's back in the day and now leads the Dodgers in all time postseason home runs. So the question was Max Muncie me realize how many people need glasses and don't realize it? Remember, he got glasses and like, got back to where he was. Yeah. You might not even realize how blind you are. It's true. Did the Dodgers F with us all year a little bit or is it a matter of don't sleep on the usual suspects? Like, like we stated first hours. Like, we spent so much time speculating. It's just the nature of the beast and what guys do and what we do. It's like, oh, who do you think it has a shot this year? But it comes down to the usual suspects more time than it doesn't. I'm going to make one dumb analogy and we'll move on. We'll talk a little NFL. I commented on your flat brim hat. Yeah. You won't let that go. Well, I won't because it's. I'll give you an analogy. You know how some ball players, like, I find it funny when there are those rare baseball players that sometimes they wear the high socks and then sometimes they'll wear, as I call it, The Ken Griffey Jr. Look, where it's a very low pants down to the ankle, like the CC Sabathia jammies. Can you. Can you be a guy that rocks the flat brim and then on another day rocks like a totally curved brim? Do you have to. You can't. But, yeah. What do you mean? Can you be. I am. I want to feel like, who do you think you are? I am. It's not about the guy. Do you realize. Yeah. You're not a guy to wear hats. You're not a guy to wear hats. I'm telling you, certain hats are meant that way, and other hats are meant to be curved. Cam Newton gives us the strength to do whatever we want because he still wear whatever hat he wants. That guy wears a mount yard. Yeah. So absolutely. It depends on what kind of hat it is. Some are meant to be bent and curved, and some are meant to be worn flat brim. It just depends on the fit. I'm just saying. Yes. The answer is yes. You could do both. Okay. Just. Just. I do both all the time. Some hats. Some hats you buy come with the curved brim, so it just is what it is. Like, can you. Can you be the guy that wears baggy jeans one day and then skinny jeans the next? It's like different looks. You can do whatever you want. You got to mix it up. Well, I want to bring up one other thing that has to do with the Dodgers, and then we're going to get into a lot of NFL. We're at that point. Danny G. Every year, we always say around week six is when we could start really assessing. Yeah. Last year, you guys extended it to week seven. I almost feel like I want to extend it again. I just. I just saw a headline. It was like, bad week, bad game, or bad season for the Bills? And I'm like, oh, let's slow down. Who knows? Well, two in a row, I would say. Oh, come on. They're four and two. I know we're. We're like, a third of the way through the season. So we're going to. We're going to assess because, Danny, I know there's some funny power rankings that have come out. It's like, who some people have at the top. It's like, do we really believe it or Not. Well, we'll talk NFL. But with the Dodgers just wrapping up two victories in Milwaukee, there was a Dodgers fan, a social media influencer. Yeah. Who? His name is Willie Prince Mata. Willie Prince Mata put on his Dodgers jersey and he went to Miller park. And he was blown away by the hospitality of not only the workers and the concession people, but all the fans who were there to welcome him in Dodgers gear. Yeah, I mean, the audio is not great. Play like five seconds. I mean, he was. He was going around Miller Park. Take a listen to Miller park now. I'm gonna tell you right now, Milwaukee are awesome people. The nicest people I think I've ever met. I mean, nicest people I ever met. I mean, would you call them Milwaukeeans? Is that. What. Is that the right word? That's what he said. Yeah. They were Miliokians. Yeah, I think that's what it is. He was shocked. Pronounced milliwaque. How hospitable and nice they were. It was a culture shock for. I imagine he's an LA guy. As a Dodgers fan, for example. Is he in Phoenix? He's out of Phoenix, but he's a big Dodger fan. But he's a big Dodgers fan. Like, for example, when I went to the World Series last year at Dodgers Stadium, I wore my Yankees jersey. I got heckled, man. But I expected that. I didn't feel like my life was being threatened, but I was definitely heckled and definitely made fun of. And I felt a little weird with my girlfriend there and everyone calling me out left and right, especially after they lost and I'm walking out. And you're not going to get that at a Miller Park. You're just not. It's fan bases, right? It's like some fan bases will see an opposing fan and be like, hey, good luck. Welcome to the stadium. Enjoy. And then, like, listen, they do not treat you like that in Philly. I will tell. I promise you, if I were to ever go to. Ever go to Philadelphia, which I have, I put my Mets jersey in a bag and I don't even put it on until I get to the stadium, because. Trash bag. Because I feel like if I leave my car, if I would have left my car wearing a Met jersey, I feel like someone would have messed with my car. You know, Philly, not so much. If you're a Yankees fan and you go to Fenway, you think you're going to be treated kindly. It's just they're so happy to have you there, visiting their ballpark. They want to make sure you have such a great experience, you come back. I don't want to kiss the S of. So wait, hold on. It's two things, though. Kindness actually exists. So that's the shock. You know, people are actually kind in other places. So that's refreshing and shocking all at the same time. And there really is something called customer care and etiquette and hospitality, where certain places take a lot of pride in, hey, make sure you welcome people so that they have a great experience. And that's what happens at Miller Park. But it doesn't happen everywhere. And we notice that too, when we travel. Like, damn. Some people lean into it, some not at all. Because they're like, eh, it's New York. Who cares? You're coming back regardless. We don't need you. Yeah, they're like, you gave the analogy before. It's sometimes if a girl's too good looking, she feels like she doesn't really need to do much. She doesn't need to do a whole lot to please you. Yeah, I mean, like, that's like that. I feel like the worst super bowl ever was in New York. We've covered. Geez, not to age ourselves. We've covered almost 20 Super Bowls. Right? And New York was the worst one because New York City was like, yeah, Super Bowls here. Who cares? We said it's the difference of you're lucky to be here. A. We're walking over here. East coast, man. Get out of our way. Meanwhile, tourists are happy to be there. It's the difference between you're lucky to be here versus we're lucky to have you. We're happy to have you. Indianapolis Park, Milwaukee. Indianapolis. The super bowl in Indianapolis is great. The Super Bowl. We've been to all star games. Are you saying Indianapolis City is the chubby chick? Is that what's going on? Yeah. I am so Indianapolis is the welcoming chubby girl. Oh, that's what I'm saying. Doing anything they can to please you as well. Exactly. I got you. Even within the state of Wisconsin. You know, people might be nice at. In Milwaukee at Brewers game, but then I've gone to like, a Wisconsin Badgers football game against Iowa. They were brutal. They. The student. I was right next to the student section. They were. They were savage, they were hostile, and they were. They didn't they pant you and beat you up. No, no, but listen, it. It can. It can differ. Even in the state, you know, the Brewers. I've been to a game at Miller park and I back up that Dodgers fan. They have a really cool situation where there's like a. I guess you would say the little downtown area in Milwaukee where the bars if they. There's certain bars where if you buy a drink or a brat or a sandwich or something, they give you a little ticket. You're like, what's this ticket for? They go, oh, that's free. If you want to take one of the little buses to the stadium, that way you don't have to drive and you can have some drinks and stuff. And you're like, what? This is amazing. They have these little like, almost like free buses that it's like, hey, have some drinks. Have some cheese curds. Have some. A sense of being ethocentric to the point where we think wherever we are and whatever we do is the greatest. And then we're just surprised that other people also have something cool going on. Hey, this is a pretty cool scene. I would have expect that in Milwaukee. 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It's the Steelers and Bengals Thursday at 7pm Eastern only on Prime Video. Restrictions apply. See Amazon.com Amazon prime for details. Hey, it's Ed Helms. And welcome back to snafu, my podcast about history's greatest screw ups. On our new season, we're bringing you a new snafu every single episode. 32 lost nuclear weapons. You're like, wait, stop. What? Ernie Shackleton sounds like a solid 70s basketball player who still wore knee pads. Yes. It's gonna be a whole lot of history, a whole lot of funny, and a whole lot of guests. The great Paul Scheer made me feel good. I'm like, oh wow, Angela and Jenna, I am sorry. So psyched you're here. What was that like for you to soft launch into the show? Sorry, Jenna, I'll be asking the questions today. I forgot whose podcast we were doing. Nick Kroll. I hope this story is good enough to get you to toss that sandwich. So let's, let's, let's see how it goes. Listen to season four of SNAFU with Ed Helms on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever, wherever you get your podcasts in the new podcast Hell in Heaven. Two young Americans move to the Costa Rican jungle to start over. But one will end up dead, the other tried for murder. Not once. People went wild. Not twice, stunned, but three times. John and Anne Bender are rich and attractive and they're devoted to each other. They create a nature reserve and build a spectacular circular home high on the top of a hill. But little by little, their dream starts to crumble and our couple retreat from reality. They lose it. They actually lose it. They sort of went nuts. Until one night, everything spins out of control. Listen to Hell in Heaven on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. What's up everybody? This is Snax from the Trap Nerds podcast and we're bringing you the horror every week all October long. 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Covino and Rich live from the Fox Sports Radio studio in for dp. Most cars on the road could use a little tlc. Rich at Mako we bring your car back back to life with affordable paint jobs and light collision repairs. Get a free estimate today. Oh, better get Mako now. Rich, we were talking about earlier on we were talking about dynamic duos and I was looking through our social media Twitter feedback I totally neglected. We got like a ton of feedback. Really funny ones. Covino and Rich. And at Fox Sports Radio CJ said how could you forget the most popular duo of the week? Those two boneheads, Dart and Scatter Boo darted. Scatter Boo. My favorite boneheads, right? They're like a wrestling tag team duo it seems to wilding crazy NFL stars. Speaking of that, a lot of people are hitting us up with tag teams from old school wrestling like Accent Smash, Butch Luke and Butch Dustin hit us up and said Herb street and Fowler. As far as commentators back in the day, our very own Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann. Sports Center. That's a great one. People were saying, Cheech and Chong, Riggs and Murtaugh, Dre and Eminem and Nancy Wilson, the Nasty Boys. There's a lot of funny ones that we got. So at Kobe, Don Rich, a lot of great feedback today. Speaking of Dre, you know how all those kids go six, seven? You know, my daughter, who's eight, actually asked me. She goes, dad, why did the boys in my school say six, seven? I'm like, because they're little idiots. I don't know. I saw a meme that said something along the lines of, yeah, we didn't do six, seven, because we did one, two, three into the foe. That's what we did. Yeah. So thank you guys for hanging out with us. Covino and Rich. We got Midweek Major coming up out here on the west side. I know the east side gets chilly. It turned hoodie weather overnight. It was like 100 degrees two days ago, and now I feel like a little B. But I'm like, it's chilly. Yeah. But just for a day. Yeah, it's going to get hot again, you know? Yeah. Cold front kicked in. And as they say, the west coast makes you soft. We grew up on the east Coast. I went to Syracuse. Kicks in, and now we're like, oh, bro, I'd walk to the bar at a T shirt in Syracuse. Now. Now it's a little chilly here in L. A. And I'm like, sam, hand me my freezy freakies and my earmuffs, please. Way cold. You know, we got to do every Wednesday. It's called Midweek major. Covino and Rich gets you over the middle of the week with Midweek Major. Oh, I love that. We throw sports and pop culture headlines and topics at the fellas, and it's like the kids say, that's summit week. Definitely major CNR score midweek major. Aw. Yeah. I feel like 10 minutes is way too much for Spotty death before we hand things over to the number one and only host of this. That's way too much for today. We like to roll the two big red love dice over there in the main studio. I just rolled a mean seven, and now a Rich roll six. It's nippily in here. Okay. All right. Danny G's big red. Six dice. Six. Come on. Six it is. It's A six. Oh, six, seven. Which means I win. That's like the worst of our. That means Covino gets first take. And now, ladies and gentlemen, the most famous person besides Judy Blume from Scotch Plains, New Jersey, Spotty boy. Hey, guys, my takeaway is that Scotch Plains needs to step it up. They really do. Honestly, there's not much going on there. I heard they don't want to be known. For you, we got Judy Blume and Mark Shaiman. That's about it. What is it? Like that town where the murderer. What is it? Ed Gein is from Plainfield, Wisconsin. Actually, the town next to me was Plainfield. Yeah, Plainfield, New Jersey. Oh, and the town on the other side of me, Westfield. Remember that show the Watcher? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a guy. The Watchers from Westfield. Yeah. But recently, people are like, we don't want to be known for the town Ed Gein came from. Well, then do something cooler. Do something better. Yeah, Scotch planes. Hey, Scotch planes. Do something cooler. For now, you got Spot. What's up, buddy? All right. How you guys doing? Good. Just stalling here. All right, LeBron dropping some dating advice for the gentleman out there. And that's quote, watch out for the ruthless ass bees. I'll censor myself bees. So LeBron appeared on his wife's podcast, Everybody's Crazy, with a panel of other guests, and they were discussing relationships and how quickly they fall apart these days. So LeBron decided to chime in with some lessons learned from the Laker locker room, saying that how the cause is how women have flipped the script and guys are trying to be good, asking themselves what they did wrong. He said it ain't you. He said that the crazy tales he's heard makes him believe that some women out there don't have men's best interests at heart. They're cutthroat and ruthless. So take it from LeBron. He's hearing it firsthand. Midweek or major, stay away from the ruthless SBS. It's just another lesson learned. Alice in Chains style. I think this is major. Definitely major, because it's LeBron James, and it's great advice. I think we fail a lot of times as far as taking advice from our elders. And he's elder status right now, especially in the NBA. He's unk status. No, he's elder status. Oh, elders. But higher than unknown. He's got a son in the NBA. So when you think about this, he is a dad, and I'm sure he passes this information and this wisdom down to his kids. Like, hey, man, it's a different world we're living in. Kadeem Hardison style. Different world. You gotta be. You gotta be careful out there because people are gonna try to get at you. And for these young players to ignore his. His wisdom, I think a shame on them. I think he's passing down some good information, some good life lessons to these young cats in the NBA, and they should be taking notes because let's just say what used to appear sweet and innocent, love and relationships back in the day, it's just not that way anymore, man. Listen, I think it's major also. Definitely major. I wrote down the word you just said wisdom. LeBron's got wisdom and maturity at this stage. He's no longer the 18 year old kid from Akron. He's lived, he's seen stuff more than most have. Right. And you know, just from watching a dumb show like Love is Blind, I feel like my wife and I constantly look at each other and say, my goodness, young people are so dumb. Young people are trifling. People are. Young people lack discipline, maturity, how to handle anything. Like, remember how. How we used to try to hang on to a relationship? People are disposable more than ever, so they don't have a young man or woman's best interest in mind. Sometimes. A lot of times it's, whoa, you know, what's the next best thing? And LeBron James sees it more than anyone, being in a locker room with these young men. So I think LeBron's words of wisdom trump our very own Mike's words, I think. Yeah. But we agree, Major. I saw one of the, you know those balloon popping shows that you see on YouTube or social media. Oh, yeah, yeah. Where like, you. You don't want to date someone, you pop a balloon. Yeah. I saw a guy walk in and half the women popped a balloon because he was wearing sunglasses. Wow. Yeah, I guess I'm out of this. They took it. They took the sunglasses off and he was, like, the most handsome dude ever. Yeah, people. Oh, sorry. Men and women. Everyone's, like, thinks they're the greatest, and everyone's, like, oddly too picky now. It's way too picky. Too many options out there. All right, Josh Allen has his love of his life, so he's staying away from the ruthless last Bs, but he seems to be gaining perspective from married life, which might be playing into his sort of lackluster season. So Alan spoke with ESPN ahead of Monday night's Bill's loss to the Falcons, and he was asked what his New wife Hallee Steinfeld taught him about as they continued their life together, building their life together. The biggest revelation for Alan, he says, quote, maybe I am more than a football player. He went on to say that his whole dream as a kid was to be a QB and never thought of anything outside of that or beyond that. He said he hopes to get. He gets to play the game for a very long time, as long as he physically can, but there is life after it as well. So maybe sort of changing perspective, rethinking life or maybe rethinking life now, who knows? But he speaks very highly of his wife, saying that she's provides a lot of morale and support. Midweek or major? I think it is major. Definitely major. I'm not trying to say that maybe his mind is elsewhere now, thinking too much about those things, and that's why they lost two in a row. Because right now he needs to focus on being just a football player. But he's right. You retire, you're an old guy on the field, but a young man in life. So what's next? And I don't know why I thought of this, but I thought of Nolan Ryan, how, like, he has his whole life as a rancher, right? He was. He was just as much of a ranch guy as he was a baseball player. So I'm sure there's more to life than baseball for Josh Allen. He just has to figure out what that is. That applies to everybody. You know, it's funny you would say Nolan Ryan because he also had a really supportive, great wife. I think the story is major. And I'll tell you why I think it's major. Because it's very unfair to Haley Steinfeld for anyone to assume that two losses in a row have anything to do with his focus. Because he's married. No, but people will point at that, especially when they hear this story. Have wives, girlfriends. Some have both, some have kids, baby mamas. There's drama on and off the field for everyone. I think it's healthy that he's looking at life outside of, I'm not just a football player. And if you think that's the reason the Bills lost two in a row, you're an idiot. And by the way, it goes with the trend of a lot of superstars of today, like Luka, who recently said, like, yeah, man, I don't plan on sticking around all that long because I got life to live. Yeah, but Josh Allen didn't say that. He said play as long as he can. But I think that we're Seeing priorities change. A different priority with young people, for sure. I think it's a healthy one. All right. Speaking of players in Life After Football, Jason Kelsey definitely enjoying his life after football, making, what, hundreds of millions of dollars hosting a podcast, but having to do some damage control this week. I guess with that popularity comes a little bit of, you know, negative side for something he didn't even do. So Kelsey somehow got sucked into the Bad Bunny super bowl halftime show controversy with fake quotes being circulated online gaining a lot of steam. So he had to take to X to defend himself. So the quote that he was getting attributed for, wrongly attributed for, was, if Bad Bunny is a bad fit for the super bowl, then maybe people making those comments are a bad fit for America's future. So he had to go on X to say, unless you hear something directly from me, consider what's being conveyed somewhere else as false. He says he usually doesn't get involved in things like this because I'm sure there's so much fake stuff online. But he said he felt the need to address it with the number of accounts reposting this fake quote. So midweek or major. I think it's major, not because of Jason Kelsey. This is just one story of a bigger problem, and we've noticed it more than ever in the past few weeks with all this AI stuff with Sora and everyone making fake videos left and right, with all the political changes going on in the world, we can't really afford to not get the truth and. And get the facts wrong all the time. And it happens every day and more so than ever before. So it's not just Kelsey. It's like, hey, is this real or not? That's becoming a big problem. I think the positive spin on this for Jason Kelce should be, hey, I got a huge platform with millions of people watching my podcast with my brother. If you hear or see me say it there, it's true. Otherwise, assume it's not. And I agree with Covino. It's major in that. Sora and all this AI stuff. We've joked about how, remember, ads and fake girls ruined MySpace back in the 2000s? I think AI might ruin the scrolling experience. I think we might dip away from social media a little bit if it continues to just be all fake crap. By the way, that video of me fighting a gorilla and winning was actually real. No. No, the match was fixed. No. Yeah, it was actually spot. The video you made of me stealing Chipotle napkins and the employees tackling me. That was real. No, that was real. You want to squeeze one more fun story as a reminder here though, Spot before we move on is to approach everything. And we have to do that as a show that that does some prep. Believe it or not. Hey, is that a real story or not? Is that one? Let's come to that. Yeah. You have to approach everything you read and everything you see on this thing, on this rectangle on your phone. Is this real or not? If you approach everything with that in the back of your head, that's the only safe way to really handle it. Hey, I got duped last night. I'm not even lying and I'll admit it. I saw a video, it looked like from a ring doorbell cam and I thought a guy messed with a porcupine and it shot like spikes at him. And my wife's like, you idiot, that's fake. I'm like, how am I supposed to know? Yeah, Then you feel deflated. And that's why we'll all be dumb. We're all prone to put the phones down, I think sooner than later as a result. Let me squeeze in one more in honor of spooky season in the postseason. So Dodgers star TE Oscar Hernandez fully embracing. I love this story. He's fully embracing spooky season as the Dodgers take on the brewers this week for the nlcs. Hernandez reveals that he didn't stay at the Dodgers team hotel in Milwaukee because his wife believes that it's haunted with ghosts. So the actually, by the way, and he wasn't alone, Mookie Betts did the same thing. So the Pfister Hotel has been called, quote, baseball's most haunted hotel. What's it called? The Pfister. Yeah, the three isn't enough to stay out of there. It has been scaring baseball players for years. Apparently the hotel was opened in 1893 by Charles Pfister and players since then have said have they've been seeing apparitions of Pfister roaming the staircase. Hold on. The sound of knocking and pounding. Oh, no, that was. That was. That was Mookie Electronics turning on and off and objects moving. Hernandez did say that he doesn't believe in ghosts and he stayed there before without any incidents. But because his wife is on the trip, he had to accommodate her and make her happy. So they had to find another hotel. That being said, he said he spoke with teammates and apparently these incidents have been happening all week. So maybe there's something to it. Who knows? Midweek or major? It's a funny story, but it's a mid story. Oh, come on. I like it. It's postseason ghost season. But did you say postseason go season? It is. He wrapped it all together. It's postseason ghost season. And it's a good story. It's a fun story, and I don't blame him. I'm not judging him for doing that. If his wife was uncomfortable and it was something to it, why stay there? No, thanks. I remember before we moved to Los Angeles, I stayed at the Hollywood Roosevelt once, and someone's like, it's haunted. My wife and I stayed at a, quote, haunted hotel in New Braunfels, Texas. I, you know, it's fun. It adds a layer to your adventure. But I guess if you're trying to focus on the NLCS and your wife's like, yeah, it's haunted. Yeah, but, Rich, it's October, and you can't really yawn because every time you yawn in October, a ghost sticks his junk in your face. I've heard that. Why would you want to take those chances at the Pfister hotel? Also, don't sleep on your stomach. Well, yeah, not at that hotel. I think the stories mid, but I like it. Thank you, Spartan. Thanks, guys. Midweek Major. We do it every week on our afternoon show. Thank you. Spot fun stories that you might have missed. I know. Listen, coming up before we get out of here, we appreciate Dan Patrick and the Danettes letting us fill in. What's up, Marvin? What's up, Seaton? Hey, guys, what's up? Who am I forgetting? Fritzi Polypept. Listen, what we're going to do next is we're going to cross reference everyone's power rankings a third of the way through, and let's. Let's be honest with ourselves. We'll decide. Are these teams really the contenders or is it just our week six, seven list? We'll get to it. Next. Did you say six, seven? I accidentally did. More six, seven. More cnr. Coming up, Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows@foxsportsradio.com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to listen live. When it comes to great meat, quality freshness and care make all the difference. That's the heartland difference. Heartland steak co. You're getting premium midwestern meats hand cut, hand picked and delivered right to your door. 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Not a problem. Simply sign up for a 30 day free trial. It's the Steelers and Bengals Thursday at 7pm Eastern only on Prime Video. Restrictions apply. See Amazon.com Amazon prime for details. Hey, it's Ed Helms. And welcome back to Snafu, my podcast about history's greatest screw ups. On our new season, we're bringing you a new snafu Every single episode. 32 lost nuclear weapons. You're like, wait, stop. What? Yeah, Ernie Shackleton sounds like a solid 70s basketball player who still wore knee pads. Yes. It's gonna be a whole lot of history, a whole lot of funny and and a whole lot of guests. The great Paul Scheer made me feel good. I'm like, oh, wow, Angela and Jenna, I am so psyched you're here. What was that like for you to soft launch into the show? Sorry, Jenna, I'll be asking the questions today. I forgot whose podcast we were doing. Nick Kroll. I hope this story is good enough to get you to toss that sandwich. So let's see how it goes. Listen to season four of SNAFU with Ed Helms on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. In the new podcast, Hell in Heaven, two young Americans move to the Costa Rican jungle to start over. But one will end up dead. The other tried for murder. Not once. People weren't wild. Not twice. Stunned, but three times. John and Anne Bender are rich and attractive and they're devoted to each other. They create a nature reserve and build a spectacular circular home high on the top of a hill. But little by little, their dream starts to crumble and our couple retreat from reality. They lose it. They actually lose it. They sort of went nuts. Until one night, everything spins out of control. Listen to Hell in Heaven on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What's up everybody? This is Snax from the Trap Nerds podcast. And we're bringing you the horror every week all October long. Kicking off this month, I'll be bringing you all my greatest fear inducing horror games from Resident Evil to Solid Hill. Me and Tony bringing back Fireteam on Left 4 Dead 2. And we just gonna be going over some of the greats. Also in October, we'll be talking about our favorite horror and Halloween movies and figure out why black people always gotta die first. The umbral reliquary invites any and all fooling brave enough to peruse its many curiosities. But take your all sales are final. Weekly horror side quests written and narrated by yours truly with a full episode read and a commentary special. And we will cap it off with Horror movie Battle Royale. Jason versus Freddy, Michael Myers versus the alien thing with the little tongue monster. October. We're doing it Halloween style. Listen to the Trap Nurse podcast from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. I'm gonna do my best Aziz Ansari impression. How am I supposed to do a radio show when it's so cold? It's freezing in here. It really is. By the way, are you rocking some d'? Angelo? Hell yeah. Let me fix my headphones here. Ah, the smooth R and B of the late, great D'. Angelo. Rest in peace, 51. What do you take your shirt off and show everyone you're d' Angelo likes? I have the opposite. I got Covino gone way too soon. It upset me all day yesterday. Still feeling about it. Yeah. I don't want to be, you know, the preachy Men's Health guy, but guys, if you have insurance, even if you don't, go get checked out, do your blood work as we all hit, you know, 40, 50, we're all getting older, right? Go to the doctor. You know, you got a lot to live for. Don't let. Don't let things sneak up on you. That's my little message to you. Thank you, old man. Rich. I got a colonoscopy for the first time this last year. You know, you're in your mid-40s. You got to do these things. Want to hear something personal? I got one scheduled. Get this, my first ever. Got one scheduled. What is this old guy radio? Well, you got to do these things. You got to call and ask me scheduled when? But I got it scheduled for Halloween. Are you Going to wear your clown costume to the appointment? No, hold on, hold on, hold on. And I. I ran. Be a ghostwear sheet. It'll make it easy. I mean, now. Ruined my punchline. Oh. So I know because it's not as funny as yours. So I ran it by our boss, Scott. I said, hey, Sky, I want to give you the heads up that I got one scheduled, but the only availability was October 31st. He goes colonoscopy on Halloween. What could go wrong? Sure, do what you got to do. And I was about to respond, actually, just now, like, so you don't trust Dr. F. Kruger with the procedure? Dr. You don't. You think Dr. Krueger's not gonna be able to handle this? Is he gonna say trick or treat before he reaches in? Yeah, that's weird. My colonoscopy doctor is Edward Scissorhands on Halloween. It's gonna be a nightmare on your cheeks. Nightmare on my cheeks. Whoa. So again, we're Covino and Rich Loud with the Fox Sports Radio studio Mike and Go home. Yeah, that was a good one, Danny G. Go home now. Business fluctuations make running your manufacturing business complex. But staffing your business doesn't have to be. Let express employment pros provide the workforce you need. Go to expresspros.com, find the location near you. That's expresspros.com Rest in peace, D'. Angelo. Take advantage of your insurance, you pay for it. Nightmare on my cheeks. Yeah, it's funny, man. You don't have faith in Dr. Krueger. What's the problem? All right, so tomorrow on our regularly scheduled program, our Professional Gram. We're on Monday through Friday, 5 to 7 on the east, 2 to 4 on the west. Or you could just check our show on YouTube anytime. Covino Enrich FSR. Get the podcast. Join our bonus pod over. Promise lots of Options on the YouTube page. But tomorrow we do something called Old School. When 50 hits, we throw it back and reminisce. When 50 hits on the clock on our regular show. And hey, listen, while we have our danettes and Dan Patrick, audience. And, you know, it's a show we love filling in for the most. Thank you to Dan. Like I said, Marvin Seaton, Fritzi. Who am I missing? Polly Patch? Paul Pabst. He's on the show. Yeah. Yeah. So what I want to say was we have the YouTube channel. I just want to urge people, just subscribe, check it out. It would mean a lot to us. YouTube.com covinoinrich FSR@kovino. Oh, my God. I'm getting, I'm getting choked up. Choked up because your Niners aren't on any of these Power Rangers. Yeah, we're going to get to that. But again, tomorrow, old school and 50 hits and we'll be talking Aaron Rodgers getting you ready for Thursday Night Football. Now, speaking of according to so Pro Football Talk, NFL on Fox and the USA Today. No usa, which I think they still throw under your door at hotels, they all have the Tampa Bay Bucks at number one on their NFL power rankings. Now when is that legit or prisoner of the moment? No, when you do you. Well, the prisoner of the moment is absolutely true because power rankings are based on now. Okay? So I mean that's prison of the moment because that's where we're living in the present. But if I asked you realistically, if things stayed the same, do you feel like the Bucks are a Super bowl contender? Dude, if Baker Mayfield is able to play like that against your team with no receivers, how good could they be when they're healthy? And Book is turning out to be a star. Yeah, he's made. But he's making stars out of all the Johnson's on the team and all these ancillary people. And that's what I believe. Colin said that in the promo we just played. That's what MVPs look like. That's what they do. They, they lift everybody else. And he's been able to do that just, just on pure, not only athleticism in the way he's playing. Just like the, the energy he brings to the team, man, is contagious and you see it. So I do believe that. And Bucky, Bucky will come back. Bucky Irving will come back for them on a couple of these teams. Power rankings, NFL and Fox left off the cult, but number two for Pro Football Talk and USA Today, the Colts. Do we really believe in Daniel Jones? As long as Jonathan Taylor's healthy and this guy's running amok on everyone, you can't really discount that team. They are playing as good as anyone. Right? I mean, you can't just say, well, my preconceived notion is that they're not great if they're playing the way they're playing. You have to have the Colts at least in your top five. I think, I think the Lions, even though they did have a stinker against the Chiefs, I think the Lions, when all said and done, that's a team that is in everyone's top rankings. It's in everyone's. They're in everyone's top. Here's a question mark that you can think about as you go to work today. Steelers do we believe in Aaron Rodgers? We joked about it at the beginning of the year. Like, wouldn't that be crazy? Well, guess what, Rich? We're going to talk about it tomorrow on our regular show. Well, so thanks again to all the affiliates. Thank you to Dan Patrick. Check us out. Covino and Rich. I will see you guys next time. Ariba Dare she, baby. See you in the promised land. Thank you, dp. Goodbye. Bye, guys. Have a great one. Hey, it's Ed Helms, host of Snafu, my podcast about history's greatest screw ups. On our new season, we're bringing you a new snafu. Every single episode. 32 lost nuclear weapons. You're like, wait, stop. What? Yeah, it's going to be a whole lot of history, a whole lot of funny, and a whole lot of fabulous guests. Paul Scheer, Angela and Jenna, Nick Kroll, Jordan Klepper. Listen to see season four of SNAFU with Ed Helms on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, America's sweetheart. Johnny Knoxville here. I want to tell you about my new true crime podcast, Crimeless Hillbilly Heist from Smartless Media, Campside Media and big Money Players. It's a wild tale about a gang of high functioning nitwits who somehow pulled off America's third largest cash heist. Kind of like Robin Hood, except for the part where he steals from the rich and gives to the poor. I'm not that generous. It's a damn near inspiring true story for anyone out there who's ever shot for the moon, then just totally muffed up the landing. They stole $17 million and had not bought a ticket to help him escape. So we're sitting like, oh, gosh, what do we do? What do we do? That was dumb. People, do not follow my example. Listen to Crimeless Hillbilly Heist on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Two rich young Americans move to the Costa Rican jungle to start over. But one of them will end up dead and the other tried for murder three times. It's. It starts with a dream, a nature reserve and a spectacular new home. But little by little, they lose it. They actually lose it. They sort of went nuts. Until one night, everything spins out of control. Listen to Hell in Heaven on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What's up, everybody? It's Nax from the Trap Nerds All October long, we're bringing you the Horror Boogity boogity boogity. We kicking off this with some of my best horror games to keep you terrified. Then we'll be talking about our favorite horror and Halloween movies and figuring out why black people always die first. And it's the return of Tony's Horror show side Quests, written and narrated by yours truly. We'll also be doing a full episode reading with commentary, and we'll cap it off with a horror movie battle Royale. 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