The Best Of Covino & Rich

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Best Of Covino & Rich

Episode Title: The Best Of Covino & Rich
Release Date: August 15, 2025
Host/Authors: Covino and Rich, part of the Fox Sports Radio network

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1. Introduction to the Misery Rating

In this episode, Covino and Rich delve into the concept of a "Misery Rating" for sports fans, originally developed by their friend Mike Lozzi. This rating quantifies how miserable a fan feels based on the performance of the teams they support.

Notable Quote:

• Rich [00:12]: "There is an app. Now, you know how I love to play with that playoff simulator, Covino."
• Covino [00:17]: "These are pro teams though, right?"

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2. Hosts Share Their Misery Scores

Covino and Rich reveal their personal misery scores by inputting their favorite teams into the Misery Rating app.

Notable Quotes:

• Rich [13:07]: "With those four, you guys won't be surprised to know that I am 89 on the misery rating. 89 out of 100."
• Covino [14:34]: "Do you have a buddy like that?"
• Jake Hofer [15:01]: "Yeah, you can put in as many as you think, you know, necessary for you."

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3. Guest Segment: Mike Lozzi Discusses Misery Ratings

Mike Lozzi joins the show to discuss his own misery score based on the teams he supports, including the Mets, Jets, Nets, and Islanders. His choices result in a high misery score of 89, highlighting the impact of consistently supporting underperforming teams.

Notable Quotes:

• Mike Lozzi [12:00]: "I take pride in being the biggest loser. So we start off with the Mets. Fair Miserable. Then we have the Islanders."
• Rich [13:30]: "It's pretty bad. You know, it makes you respect the fact that he's a very positive guy even more."

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4. Discussion on Athletes Embracing New Cities

Covino and Rich shift the conversation to how athletes adapt to new cities, using Jalen Ramsey's move to the Pittsburgh Steelers as a primary example. They compare his approach to other athletes like Mike McDaniel and Bryce Harper, emphasizing the importance of embracing the local culture to win over fans.

Notable Quotes:

• Rich [25:01]: "So our buddy Mike is Mets, Jets, Nets, Islanders."
• Covino [26:39]: "New neighbors move in. I smoke cigars. They come over."

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5. Neighbor from Hell: The Gary B. Story

A significant portion of the episode centers around the infamous "Neighbor from Hell," Gary B., from Van Nuys, California. Gary's disruptive behavior, including mowing his lawn at unconventional hours and making excessive noise, has driven his neighbors to the brink, garnering national attention.

Notable Quotes:

• Rich [39:03]: "He split. The cops came, he was out."
• Covino [41:10]: "I don't think he's mentally there for."
• Rich [44:54]: "He smacked the girl, by the way, when they broke up."

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6. Personal Bad Neighbor and Roommate Stories

Covino and Rich share their own challenging experiences with neighbors and roommates, illustrating the universal frustration of dealing with difficult individuals.

Notable Quotes:

• Rich [42:13]: "We moved into this neighborhood and we encountered the Devil's Rejects."
• Jake Hofer [45:03]: "My neighborhood kids playing on my lawn. I wouldn't care."
• Rich [48:55]: "He makes a wrong turn and thinks my bedroom is the bathroom room."

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7. Philosophical Takeaways: Balancing Sports Fandom and Personal Well-being

The hosts reflect on the emotional toll of being a devoted sports fan, especially when supporting teams that frequently underperform. They emphasize the importance of not allowing team results to overly influence personal happiness and mental health.

Notable Quotes:

• Rich [20:06]: "Don't let the misery define you."
• Covino [22:08]: "If you see a package left by your mailboxes, like, I'll take it to their doorstep."

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8. Listener Interactions and Community Stories

Throughout the episode, Covino and Rich engage with listeners, sharing submitted stories about their own problematic neighbors and roommates. These interactions foster a sense of community and shared experiences among the audience.

Notable Quotes:

• Co-host [57:39]: "Can you tell me where the neighbor's kids have? Freaking dog on the feet."
• Jake Hofer [61:18]: "I'm trying to call the police and be like, what the f are we doing here?"

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9. Closing Remarks and Encouragement to Engage

As the episode wraps up, Covino and Rich encourage listeners to share their own stories and experiences, reinforcing the show's interactive and community-driven nature.

Notable Quotes:

• Rich [73:26]: "Who do we got? Andy, how do you do?"
• Jake Hofer [75:15]: "You guys are great. The best show on radio."

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Conclusion:

In "The Best Of Covino & Rich," listeners are treated to an engaging blend of sports analysis, personal anecdotes, and community storytelling. The episode effectively balances humor with heartfelt discussions on the impact of sports fandom and the universal challenge of dealing with difficult neighbors and roommates. Covino and Rich's approachable hosting style, combined with relatable content, makes this episode a standout for both regular listeners and newcomers alike.

Transcript

[Podcast Announcer]

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[Sports Announcer]

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[Jake Hofer]

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[Co-host]

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[Jake Hofer]

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[Rich]

Should you?

[Jake Hofer]

That's what the real question is. Stand without good access is not a good stand.

[Co-host]

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[Jake Hofer]

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[Co-host]

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[Jake Hofer]

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[Co-host]

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[Jake Hofer]

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[Covino]

I guess they would be conspiracy theorists.

[Co-host]

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[Jake Hofer]

They gave you the answers and you still blew it.

[Co-host]

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[Co-host]

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[Covino]

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[Rich]

Get fired up, y'. All.

[Podcast Announcer]

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[Jake Hofer]

People riding bikes because it's fun.

[Podcast Announcer]

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[Jake Hofer]

Hey, thanks for listening to the Best of Covino and Rich podcast. Be sure to catch us live every day from 5 to 7pm Eastern, 2 to 4 Pacific on Fox Sports Radio.

[Rich]

Find your local station for Cavino and [e-mail] or stream us live every day on the iHeartRadio app by searching FSR. Hope you're having a nice week. It's Thursday, which means old school when 50 hits and we got lots of NFL, lots of baseball, lots of nonsense to talk about and Rich, hold on.

[Jake Hofer]

Someone just passed me a Note in class. P.S. i'm horny.

[Rich]

P.S.

[Co-host]

I'M Horny.

[Jake Hofer]

Wow, another Billy Madison reference. Isaac, was that you? Isaac Lohengkron on the updates? Hey, Isaac, what they don't know is I pass you guys that note every day. I know how I know you're here. What is this surprise.

[Rich]

So we got the very sexy Isaac Loewencron. We got Iowa Sam on the ones and twos. Danny G. Super producing at 87799 on Fox. Before we talk about Jalen Ramsey and Denzel Washington. And I know you have a misery rating you want to get to Rich real quick, right? Quick. Just a random question.

[Jake Hofer]

Yeah.

[Rich]

It is the first day of school for kids in Los Angeles when you were a pumpkin pie haircut, a little kid on his first day of school with his little backpack and his brand new sneakers, all excited for the new year. What was your favorite sporting game to play in the playground or in gym class when you were rocking your penny on a throwback Thursday? Because for me, honestly, it was the Nerf football, two hand touch until one little nose picking kid broke his finger in grade school and we weren't allowed to play ever again.

[Jake Hofer]

Oh, I was going to say I'm a traditionalist, Covino. I feel like some old school kickball. A little bouncy, a little bounce.

[Rich]

But would you play like before school.

[Jake Hofer]

Or in gym class or both recess and gym class?

[Rich]

Yeah. I mean kickball. Yeah. Do you want it straight or bouncy?

[Jake Hofer]

I want a little, just a little bouncy so I get some air, you.

[Rich]

Know, it's funny, man. I like my women like I like my kickballs.

[Jake Hofer]

Little bouncy bounce.

[Rich]

Haven'T changed much. But when I was a kid, man, and we'd be waiting to go into.

[Jake Hofer]

School, nice kickballs, you know, when you.

[Rich]

Would wait there, like to go into class, we would be allowed to play Nerf football. Nerfs were big in the 80s, man, they were blowing up. And then one kid got hurt and that fun ended. So that was my fun. Aside from kickball. You know what? Gym volleyball was always a lot of fun.

[Jake Hofer]

Can I. Can I give you another game? I feel like I logged many hours playing and could also be considered an adult game nowadays. Asses up. You guys ever play asses up?

[Sports Announcer]

We called it butts up. Different meaning.

[Jake Hofer]

Different meaning as an adult, but as a kid, I would say, I'm in Iowa. Did they play asses up?

[Covino]

I don't. I don't know that one.

[Jake Hofer]

In some parts of town, they call.

[Rich]

It just to show you we haven't changed much. Still love asses up. And we still like it bouncy.

[Jake Hofer]

That's true, but no asses up. Some called it suicide, where you throw either a tennis ball or a blue handball.

[Sports Announcer]

Yeah, the heavy blue handball against racquetball.

[Jake Hofer]

Against the concrete wall outside the school. Now you'd field it if you bobbled it. You then had a dart to the wall, and you had to touch the wall before someone pegged you with the ball or some played, you had a hit the wall. Then if you spelled out ass, you had to get up there like a criminal with your hands against the wall. And every one of your buddies had one shot to throw the ball as hard as they can, right. Try to hit you right in the back.

[Rich]

Like they allowed kids to play stuff like that before school started? Not anymore. And can I throw one more honorable mention out there? This was more of a gym class thing for us. I grew up in Union, New Jersey, so our town revolved around baseball, football, things like that. We didn't have a lacrosse team. We weren't that type of town. We weren't like a rich town in that sense. So if we ever played lacrosse, it was in gym class with the pennies and the plastic equipment and everything. And I'll tell you, it was a lot of fun playing that in gym. I was all county gym class. I don't know if people know that, but I took it very serious. And I'd go back to history. History class with. With a sweaty ass. That's just how it was.

[Jake Hofer]

I always thought it was funny. Like, speaking of first day of school gym class, two things stood out. How smelly that room. I don't know if your. Your gym had the same thing. It was like a room where they kept the volleyballs, the kickballs, old pennies. It smelled like a hobo's ass. It was. Honestly, I used to look around like Is there a hobo sleeping?

[Rich]

There's actually. There's actually a candle named after that. It's called Rancid Hobo ass.

[Jake Hofer]

But there Hobo. There was that room in.

[Sports Announcer]

Can you please say drifter?

[Jake Hofer]

I'm sorry? Drifter.

[Rich]

Hobo.

[Jake Hofer]

It was like a. It smelled like a Dr. Booty. And you put on these pennies. And then I thought the other crazy thing.

[Rich]

Those pennies held sense from the early 60s, man. They were just. They were never washed.

[Jake Hofer]

Let me give you two more memories on a Throwback Thursday. Then we're going to get into whether or not you're allowed to be miserable as a sports fan. I'll explain.

[Rich]

Go ahead, Gary.

[Jake Hofer]

Two more memories. You'd play as a kid for hours. Gym class, recess, and your teacher would let you have, like, two seconds of the water fountain. Like, one, two, next one, two. Now every little kid's got their water bo and they're, you know, they're hydrated all day. When we were kids, we were at a water fountain like. Like a dog, like, trying to get one little lick of the fountain. And the gym teacher would yell at you.

[Rich]

Is that where you were introduced to ultimate Frisbee, too? Before, like, a bunch of nerds in the early 2000s started playing in leagues and things like that? Is that the first time you played it in gym class? Because that was fun, too.

[Jake Hofer]

Never in gym class. That was a college quad thing. I remember people on the quad in college, like, ultimate Frisbee.

[Rich]

So on this day, I just want to say I used to love playing the playgr before school. Two hand touch nerf football as an 80s kid. That was so much fun, dude. And I wish all the kiddies and all the kiddos throughout the nation a great, great school year. Especially my kid. She's a sophomore now, and I just hope she has a good one, because if she doesn't, I got to deal with it.

[Jake Hofer]

So the memories I wanted to bring up, like you said, pennies. That room in everyone's gym that smell like hobo's ass.

[Rich]

Yeah.

[Jake Hofer]

The limited water you are allowed. Meanwhile, now, like I said, every kid goes to school with, like, multiple water bottles. H. And then the third thought you sort of touched on it when you were in junior high or high school. And not to sound gross, but you were going through, like, those early stinky stages of puberty where not every kid wore deodorant yet. And that's when you would sweat huevos and then just go right back to social studies class. They stink.

[Rich]

Go back to class all sweaty you'd.

[Jake Hofer]

Go run a mile around the track, you'd stink, and then you'd be like, all right, now go to biology. Like, what?

[Rich]

Yeah. If you had any sense of athleticism or pride, you took some of the game serious because it was fun.

[Jake Hofer]

And the funny. And the funny part about that, I will admit, because I was guilty like everyone else of this. How many times did you take those stinky gym clothes? You would put them in a supermarket plastic bag, put in your locker, and wear them again?

[Rich]

Yeah. They smell like Fritos. Yeah, I smell that Frito smells.

[Jake Hofer]

Smell it, Dipsy Doodles. Happy first day of school. Hopefully you had a great night. Hopefully it didn't have a New York Mets winning six. Nothing yet, finding a way to lose type of night. I don't know what team in baseball should be the most discouraged now. The lake. The Dodgers, who are letting first place slip away. The Mets, who stink. Your Yankees, who are now, like, almost on the outside looking in there every.

[Rich]

Time your Mets lose, the Yankees lose. They're horrible.

[Jake Hofer]

I know. So I bring this up because my buddy Mike, who I went to, he remembers these days. A guy I went to elementary school, high school, and college with.

[Co-host]

Who?

[Jake Hofer]

My buddy Mike Lozzi.

[Co-host]

Never heard of him.

[Jake Hofer]

Lives in upstate New York.

[Rich]

Date you went to every stage of life together.

[Jake Hofer]

Do you have a buddy like that?

[Rich]

No.

[Jake Hofer]

We played Little League together, and we also went out to bars in college together. Lifetime friend. He coaches soccer and baseball for his kids. Lives in upstate New York. I bring him up because he's like a numbers guy. He's one of those guys where he'd be like, hey, dude, I punched some numbers in. In the percentage. Like, he's a sports numbers nerdy guy. And my buddy Mike used to try to do an algorithm. Like, what person do you know has the worst winning percentage based on their teams? That was like his thing. Like, yo, if I root, you know, if you root for, you know, the Marlins, the Miami Heat, this. If you add up all your teams, like, who's got the worst luck, like, who's. Who's really the saddest fan. And my buddy Mike. Is he on the line? Did he call up?

[Sports Announcer]

Yeah, he's on the line.

[Jake Hofer]

What's up, Mike?

[Co-host]

There's no doubt in the world. It's me, Mike.

[Jake Hofer]

Welcome to the show.

[Rich]

Hey, buddy.

[Jake Hofer]

Mike. What? Give everyone. Give everyone your teams. Because you used to take pride in being the saddest fan. Give everyone your major teams.

[Co-host]

I take pride in being the biggest loser. So we start off with the Mets. Fair Miserable. Then we have the Islanders.

[Jake Hofer]

Islanders, Fair.

[Co-host]

Yep. Then we go to the Jets.

[Jake Hofer]

Jets.

[Rich]

When you say Islanders, do you mean Haku and Tama? Are you talking about the wrestlers? Not the wrestlers, because they were pretty good.

[Jake Hofer]

And then as far as. So you did hockey. Oh, basketball, Mike. Add that.

[Co-host]

Basketball. Yeah. You figure. Well, you're smart enough to be a Knicks fan, right? Nope. Next. Fan.

[Jake Hofer]

So our buddy Mike is Mets, Jets, Nets, Islanders.

[Rich]

Well, I can see why he was inspired to figure out if he was the biggest loser based on his choices, because every team he roots for is terrible. So I could see the train of thought, like, what are the chances that I could be rooting for the worst teams in all sports?

[Jake Hofer]

So when people bitch and complain like, oh, my team stink, and I'm bummed, I'm a mad fan. Mike used to do this meth for us, and yesterday he goes, yeah, what I've been doing for years. ESPN has now put together what they're calling the misery rating. You plug in your teams, and they give you a rating on how miserable you're allowed to be, which is.

[Co-host]

Out of 100.

[Jake Hofer]

Out of 100. So 100. You have 100 would be the most miserable fan. And, Mike, what is your score?

[Co-host]

So with those four, you guys won't be surprised to know that I am 89 on the misery rating. 89. 89 out of 100.

[Rich]

Now, is. Is Mike allowed to send this to his wife to at least justify his moods?

[Jake Hofer]

Yes, I think you could.

[Co-host]

I think you wouldn't give me the time. There'd be too many eye rolls I wouldn't get. I wouldn't get any sympathy there.

[Rich]

But it does explain a lot, right? It's like, yo, man, how could I really be that happy when I'm rooting for a bunch of losing teams like that? Like, I'm at an 89. Give me a break.

[Jake Hofer]

So I had Mike. I said, mike, you have it open. Do you mind if I throw you the crew here at Fox Sports Radio? And Mike was kind enough to run the numbers, and I did. Everyone in the room. I didn't do you, Sam, because I don't think it registered anything, Iowa. Because I don't think. I don't think that's in the equation. But, Danny G, I want to start with you. Now, remember, 100 is the most miserable fan. Danny G, as you know, is a guy that roots for the Raiders, the Lakers, and the Dodgers. Danny, not too shabby. You're a 48.

[Sports Announcer]

Oh, okay, 48.

[Jake Hofer]

So you.

[Co-host]

You.

[Rich]

You're like, you're the Raiders are bringing that percentage up for sure.

[Jake Hofer]

Oh, yeah, because the Lakers and Dodgers.

[Covino]

Have given three championships in the last five years between the Lakers and Dodgers right now.

[Rich]

Kavino.

[Sports Announcer]

Thank you. Lakers and Dodgers.

[Jake Hofer]

By the way, you're allowed to be a little more miserable. You're allowed to be a little more miserable than Danny because I popped in for you Yankees. And since you've been in la, you've been a Lakers fan. You claim them enough.

[Rich]

Yeah, for sure. If there's any team in the NBA or any team that I've adopted since being in Los Angeles, it's the Lakers for sure.

[Jake Hofer]

So you're at a 51.

[Rich]

Okay, that's not bad. But you only put in two teams, right?

[Jake Hofer]

Yeah, you can put in as many as you think, you know, necessary for you. Okay, now for me, Mets, 49ers, I'm at a 78.

[Rich]

Wow.

[Sports Announcer]

So it's most of that the Mets.

[Jake Hofer]

Of it's the Mets, but the 49ers getting close, but never winning. There's misery in that, in expectation. So they have a whole equation. So if you want to plug in your teams just for fun, know that there is a. There's an. An app. Now, you know how I love to play with that playoff simulator, Kavino.

[Rich]

Yeah.

[Jake Hofer]

Now the misery simulator.

[Rich]

Well, here's the two takeaways I got. We got to give our boy who's been talking about this for years on the Kavino on a show, Mike Lizzito, the proper credit. He invented this stat before ESPN made a whole little algorithm. We give you credit, Mike, so you get credit here on the Covino and Rich show, Mike Lozito. Everybody has been trying to calculate his own misery for years. And then it makes me wonder, Rich, is there. Is there a comb of losing teams that would equal out to 100? Like, what would equal exactly? Like, what would be the ultimate losing combination?

[Co-host]

Well, so can I. Danny, just. Just for reference, how bad The Raiders are really bringing you down. You're a zero without them.

[Rich]

Wow. Wow.

[Jake Hofer]

So you take the Raiders out and leave Danny with the Lakers and Dodgers. He's like, no ability to be miserable.

[Rich]

But if you factor the. The. But if you put in the fact that he works for Ben Maller, too, it probably goes up even higher.

[Jake Hofer]

Yeah, that's true. Yeah.

[Rich]

Yeah, that's true.

[Co-host]

The Raiders. If you just look at the Raiders and nothing else, it's a 96.

[Sports Announcer]

Well, Pete Carroll is going to turn that around. So come on, Pete.

[Co-host]

Sitting here while you guys are on, while you guys were talking about this trying to find a reasonable list of teams. Right? So you look at Chicago, you know, you get the White Sox, Bolts, Blackhawks, and what am I missing?

[Jake Hofer]

Bears.

[Co-host]

Bears come bears. Right. You're 72.

[Jake Hofer]

Still not. Still not as bad as, you know, who's know who's right there up with you. I put in our boss, Scott, because I know he's always bummed about. He's. He's Vikings, Twins, T. Wolves. He's at an 89.

[Rich]

Yeah, it's pretty bad. You know, it makes you respect the fact that he's a very positive guy even more.

[Jake Hofer]

So I guess the lesson here is that there's an equation you can now put your teams into. So one of your friends is like, yo, my team stinks. You could actually mathematically prove who has the ability to be more miserable. So if your buddy is rooting for teams like the Mets and the.

[Covino]

These are pro teams though, right?

[Jake Hofer]

These are pro teams.

[Covino]

Like Iowa has been winning like a lot of their games for the last 45 years. Like, they're not at bad. They're just have. Winning a national championship at football is really hard. It's like you're facing off against like 100 other teams.

[Jake Hofer]

Yeah. And you root for Caitlin Clark, I always say. I mean, you got the.

[Covino]

I grew up like rooting for the Phillies. They won, they won a World Series in 2008. Like, you know, I like the Dodgers. They've won a couple World Series. You know, I don't have a pro basketball team.

[Jake Hofer]

No.

[Covino]

I like the Packers.

[Jake Hofer]

You know who has the low.

[Covino]

Packers won a Super bowl like 14 years ago.

[Jake Hofer]

You know, who has the rich.

[Rich]

What if you factor in I have a pain in the ass teenage daughter and, and, and child support and stuff like that.

[Jake Hofer]

Hold on, let me put this in. Ex pain in the ass, ex wife, teenage daughter. Oh, you've. You've just jumped up.

[Rich]

Oh, yeah. I knew the misery meter would go up if I included that.

[Jake Hofer]

Let me just throw one more in and then we'll get into other stuff on the show. But I just thought it was interesting that something we've all probably speculated and imagined, like who has the right to be the most miserable fan? You know, Mike. Who runs this place?

[Rich]

Who. Mike runs this place.

[Jake Hofer]

Who runs this place Different. Mike has no ability at all. No ability at all to be upset. Mike. Would you believe Mike might think the Panthers are bringing him down, but Big Mike is a Lakers fan. Dodgers, LA Kings and Panthers. And would you believe the app says you should be elated?

[Rich]

18. Wow. Yeah. Because the Lower the percentage, the greater choices you've made as a fan. That's pretty good. I like the. The misery meter, I believe they're calling it on espn. And you can see if your friends and colleagues really do have reasons to be annoyed and frustrated.

[Jake Hofer]

So essentially, yeah, if you're just killing time incorporated, if you're just killing time around the office and you are honestly just counting down the hour until you have to go home, pop in all your teams, pop in your friends teams, and really see who has the right to be more miserable. And by the way, Mike, good talking to you, buddy. Thanks, man.

[Rich]

Thanks, Mike.

[Co-host]

Love you guys. See if you could beat me. I'm a loser.

[Jake Hofer]

I'm a loser. Mike, do you think after last night, you think our Mets are going to slip out of the wild card in the next couple days or what?

[Co-host]

They're terrible. I can't even talk about it.

[Jake Hofer]

Mets are only one game up on the Reds right now, which is wild. So I know I.

[Rich]

You know. And again, you're a fan. You're not on the team, but it does affect your mood. Loser. And it affects your confidence and psyche a little bit to be rooting for losing teams all the time. It has to, because you feel. You don't feel like a winner when your team sucks.

[Jake Hofer]

Yeah.

[Rich]

And I know that because when your team wins, you feel great, you feel good. So it does add to the frustration levels. And we give Mike Luzzito all the props and all the credit. We have the actual inventor here on the Covino and Rich Show. How do you like that?

[Jake Hofer]

I remember he would always do this.

[Rich]

No, thanks. I want no part of your misery. And I don't want to start a misery company with incorporated.

[Jake Hofer]

Well, there's. There's a lot of NFL teams that are. That are hoping. Like Danny, I was. I was talking about you behind your back. Only because you're in the next room. But when Big Mike was in here, I'm like, look at Dan. He's got his Raiders gear on every year. He's so optimistic. But it could turn to misery real quick. Who do the Raiders play? Week 1 of the NFL?

[Sports Announcer]

The Patriots in New England.

[Rich]

Yeah, but Danny G. Doesn't let that misery define his personality.

[Jake Hofer]

He's a happy guy. He's a happy guy.

[Covino]

I think that's a winnable game, by the way.

[Rich]

I don't mind it affecting you, but don't ever let it define you.

[Sports Announcer]

When I was in my really quick Rich. When I was in my early 20s, I pissed off my co. Host of the morning show I was on because after a bad Raiders loss, I refused to do the sports report on our Monday morning morning show.

[Jake Hofer]

Just refusal.

[Rich]

Yeah.

[Sports Announcer]

And the general manager of the radio station, he pulled me aside after the show because he heard the co host complaining and he said, dude, does Al Davis pay your bills? And I said, no. And he's like, so don't let it affect your personality. The players after the game, whether they win or lose, they're at a steak dinner still celebrating life, being happy, and you're at home being miserable. More miserable than them.

[Jake Hofer]

I would have been like, can Al Davis pay my bills?

[Rich]

You know, I had that thought yesterday. I saw Devin Williams in the Yankees dugout, like, playing slap ass with one of the other relievers. Like, he's smiling, having a great time. I'm like, this guy is having the worst season ever, responsible for half of the Yankees misery. And here I am all mad about it. Yet he's having fun. I'm like, we take it too much to heart.

[Jake Hofer]

Even your closer, who's making tens of millions of dollars, smiling and laughing and meanwhile you're frustrated. Incorporated.

[Rich]

Exactly. Yeah. So again, understand that affects you. Don't let it define you. And check out your misery meter.

[Jake Hofer]

I'm going to check out my misery meter. Espn, what's up? I was.

[Covino]

Sam, I was just going to say. Rich, didn't you bring that up? That Juan solo, he's smiling and laughing too much and having a great time.

[Jake Hofer]

Well, to me, I don't mind, but I have fans, I friends. I have like, I have like met fan friends on my group chat that when Juan Soto is in the batter's box, like, chuckling and like, you know, giving a little elbow to the catcher and, you know, joking with umpire. Hey, Blue. And he's smiling. I have fans, the friends that are like, why are we okay with this? I'm like, what do you want? Do you want Juan Soto to have a, like a sad look on his face until the Mets turn it around? Like, you gotta play loose, man. And remember, these guys may not even care as much as you do. Sometimes I gotta ask Isaac Loewencron. Isaac, I don't even know your teams in my mind. Are you like Rob Lowe? Do you just wear like an NFL hat? No, for me it's, for me, it's the teams that I have that have logos on the checks I get. So I live and die with those teams, like the Chargers, Angel City FC of the National Women's Soccer League. But I, you know, that's actually A great question. Because my team growing up was the LA Kings. And I was so traumatized by them losing in the Stanley cup finals in 1993, what, 32 years ago, that I'm like, you know, it'll be less heart wrenching to be on the broadcasting side of it. Cause it's really emotionally tough to be a team. So are you one of those guys that when you became a broadcaster, sort of put aside your fandom a little bit? Yes. Because there was less chance of pain that way. Oh, my God. The guy that's like, I won't. You like the guy in the Bachelorette that's like, I don't want to get hurt. So you just say no.

[Sports Announcer]

Don't run away from your emotions.

[Jake Hofer]

No. Isaac, maybe we need to have a therapy session about this. Like, who do you. I assume Dodgers at one point or Angels. You're a west coast guy, right? Dodgers growing up, Lakers growing up. Oh, my gosh. My team was the Kings. And my total mood. By emotionally giving up, though, didn't you miss two in the 2000s and.

[Rich]

Right.

[Jake Hofer]

They've won two. Yeah, they win two Stanley Cups after they'd been in existence for 45 years. They win two Stanley Cups in three years. But by that time I was like full broadcaster. So on the flip side, I didn't put myself at the risk of the pain, but I also didn't have the chance to enjoy it the way I would have had I been a fan.

[Covino]

Isaac's objective. It's called being an objective journalist.

[Rich]

That.

[Jake Hofer]

And he's scared. He's scared. He doesn't want to open up to a Don't hurt me again. He doesn't want to open up.

[Rich]

So, guys, is Covino and Rich at our regular time? The past three days we've been filling in for the Dan Patrick Show. If you missed any of those shows, that's three hours every day, three hours of the greatness that you get from cnr. If you missed anything, catch the podcast search Covino and Rich. Follow the podcast and of course our new YouTube stream at Covino. Enrich FSR to watch us live. Let's take a few phone calls, then we'll talk Jalen Ramsey. Jalen Ramsey next. 87799 on Fox. Who do we got?

[Jake Hofer]

Let's. Let's talk Jalen Ramsey. Let's. Let's get into that and then we'll. Because that. I think people just talk about their misery. I don't feel like plugging people's teams. And you could do it on your own.

[Rich]

Okay. Yeah. The misery meter is available now at espn. So Jalen Ramsey again going from Miami to Pennsylvania, said, now as a Steeler, I got rid of the Rolls Royce and I bought me a Ram truck. I'm ready. So not only is he ready for the new season and the new team, he's ready to be a full on Pennsylvania, blue collar kind of guy. And Rich, we've gone to some Steelers, Super Bowls, we've gone to some games in Pennsylvania. We're talking blue collar dudes with mustaches and, and Ram trucks. And that's just sort of lifestyle. So he's planning on leaning into it is the vibe I'm getting. So, again, again, got rid of the Rolls Royce, bought a Ram truck, he's ready.

[Jake Hofer]

So we ask you, do you feel like you yourself are the type of person that lean into where you're moving or living, or do you feel like you bring you there and then that you're just genuinely you all the time? Like, to me, I. Someone popped immediately in my head, Danny, when we were talking about, do you, do you go to a city and make that city your own or do you adapt to the City? When Mike McDaniel decided to coach the Dolphins, he became like an extra off the set of Miami Vice. Like he was a drug lord. Like he was a villain in a random episode of Miami Vice.

[Covino]

Became Scarface.

[Jake Hofer]

Yeah.

[Sports Announcer]

So that's a great example.

[Jake Hofer]

Mike McDaniel, I think is cool. He's a funny personality, but he let the hair grow, he got a tan, he's wearing capris on the side.

[Rich]

As a professional athlete, showed a lot of ankle, I mean, or, or a coach. I think it's smart and good business to lean into that city and win over some fans. And we saw Bryce Harper do a, a tremendous job of that. When he went to Philadelphia, right? He was just like, yo, I'm all about it. We're seeing Russell Wilson do a pretty good job of that now, just embracing. He embraced Denver and we saw him now embracing New York. Like we've seen him do a good campaign of, hey man, I'm all about it and I think you should. I think that's good. Now. I like what Jalen Ramsey's doing here. So I love when athletes lean into the new city and try to embrace the fans, therefore, hopefully getting embraced by them in return. I mean, I think real life, Rich, I think it's a little different. Like for me, I don't feel like LA changed me much. I feel like a lot of people in LA meet me and Immediately know I'm an east coast guy by the way I act, by the way I talk, by the way I lean. And I think the only thing I really changed was maybe like, because health is such a priority in la, I think you just sort of roll that way. Because if I still lived on the East Coast, I'd probably be 20 pounds heavier with all the pizza, the GABA, ghoul, Taylor ham sandwiches.

[Jake Hofer]

That's perhaps.

[Rich]

I think diet will change you for sure based on your move.

[Jake Hofer]

I do think sometimes when you're the face of an organization, quarterback, star player, the easiest thing you could possibly do, easiest thing you could do is ingratiate yourself to that city. All you got, like, I mean, Aaron Rodgers, who we love to make fun of. I think we all agreed the best thing Aaron Rodgers has done over the last decade that no one could disagree with was his little short tenure at the Jets. Remember how it started? He was going to Broadway play, sitting courtside at a Knicks game. Did a great job, you know, doing videos of him eating New York City pizza. He bought a cool place in Jersey. Like he won over New York. And then of course the injury and you know, under delivering on the field. But he did all the right things leading up to it.

[Rich]

That's where he lost the fans. He did a good job again, leaning into it. So there's a few questions at hand here. First, we commend Jalen Ramsey's move, but he's making changes to win over the new fans. He's like, I'm not that Miami guy in the roles. I'm that Pennsylvania guy with the ram truck.

[Jake Hofer]

Can you adapt that?

[Rich]

What are changes you've. Are there changes you've made? If you've moved, you could let us know. Rich, do any come to mind for you?

[Jake Hofer]

You know, I thought of this because you said something the other day. Our buddy Nico, who a lot of you guys met, he was at our Covino Rich convention. One of our radio buds, Danny G. You get along with Nico great.

[Sports Announcer]

I've heard him a few times now. He does mornings in Phoenix.

[Jake Hofer]

I'm glad you said that.

[Covino]

I got to chat with him for a few minutes because he's awesome.

[Jake Hofer]

Our boy Nico, one of our old school radio buds, actually a guy that was influential in introducing Cavino and I, he was always.

[Covino]

You brought you two together, right?

[Jake Hofer]

He was. He was born and raised in Detroit, but when he moved to New York, he was straight up living in downtown Brooklyn, hipster New York City, DJing at clubs. And now he got a great opportunity he's the morning guy on a country station. He's like, hop along, Nico with a cowboy hat now. And he dove into country music culture, and he's all about it now. And he hangs with, like, country artists and stuff. So here's the thing, though.

[Rich]

He's not faking it. I don't like when people fake it. I believe he's a natural chameleon, and he sort of does become that person, and he really does like it.

[Sports Announcer]

Yeah. In country, that modern country music is top 40 now. He's a top 40 guy.

[Jake Hofer]

Yeah.

[Sports Announcer]

So his style works even in that format.

[Rich]

So I'm not saying be a phony baloney. I'm saying if it's happening organically, that's great. A foot washed up, a shoe with some bones in it. They had no idea who it was.

[Co-host]

Most everything was burned up pretty good from the fire that. That. Not a whole lot was salvageable.

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[Covino]

He never thought he was going to get caught. And I just looked at my computer screen, I was just like, ah, gotcha.

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[Rich]

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[Podcast Announcer]

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[Co-host]

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[Rich]

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[Jake Hofer]

And they're saying, like, okay, pull this. Until this.

[Covino]

Pull that, turn this.

[Rich]

It's just I can do my eyes closed. I'm Manny. I'm Noah. This is Devin. And on our new show, no such thing, we get to the bottom of questions like these. Join us as we talk to the leading expert on overconfidence.

[Sports Announcer]

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[Rich]

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[Co-host]

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[John Lithgow]

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[Covino]

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[Jake Hofer]

As far as I'm concerned, the best I've seen.

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[Podcast Announcer]

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[Co-host]

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[Rich]

Another beer.

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[Rich]

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[John Lithgow]

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[Co-host]

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[Rich]

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[Co-host]

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[Rich]

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[Rich]

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[Sports Announcer]

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[Rich]

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[Rich]

Time for a tire rack play of the day. It started with pocket pancakes and streaks all the way up to free George Webb burgers for the whole city.

[Jake Hofer]

Myers out of the stretch. The pitch and a swing and a miss. He struck him out. Wow. Would you like fries with that? 12 in a row for the crew.

[Co-host]

12 to 5, your final.

[Jake Hofer]

The brewers with their second longest winning streak in the regular season in franchise history. Yeah, that guy's very announcer. Yeah. 12 in a row, courtesy of the brewers radio network. That was our tire rack play of the day. I would be excited too, if my team won 12 in a row. The Mets have lost like 12 of 14.

[Rich]

Must be nice. Must be nice.

[Jake Hofer]

40 years Tire rack's been helping people. Must be nice. The right tires for how, what and where they drive ship fast and free. Backed by free road hazard protection. Convenient installation options like mobile tire installation. Tirek.com the way tire buying should be. And you know what, look at the clock. We go old school every Thursday. When the clock hits 50, there's a surge. Yeah.

[Sports Announcer]

What we gonna do right here is.

[Co-host]

Go back, tell me, where's this party?

[Sports Announcer]

Back into town, throwing it back for a Thursday. Old school. When 50 hits at 50 after C.

[Jake Hofer]

And R, give you the time capsule topic and we reminisce together.

[Co-host]

Yeah.

[Rich]

So the most inclusive show on radio invites you to call and say, what's up? 87799 on Fox. Like Rich said, we do this every Thursday. We get you involved. And this, this story is one that sweeped the nation. Out of Van Nuys, California. So out of Van Nuys, there's this guy, this resident called Gary, right? Gary. His name is Gary Boyad. Zion Boyadzian. Let's call him Gary B.

[Jake Hofer]

How about that, Gary B.

[Rich]

Train horns and all hours.

[Sports Announcer]

This loud ass train horn all hours of the day.

[Rich]

And neighbors, the residents in his neighborhood, calling him the neighbor from hell. To the point where it's making national news. To the point where the cops had to come and take him in. So this man's mowing his lawn at 2am, working on cars banging metal all hours of the night into the early morning and all the neighbors, Bob and Bernard and all these people are coming saying he is the worst now. But there's a flip side to the story that we're going to get to. But it made us think about the worst, worst neighbors, worst roommates ever of all time.

[Jake Hofer]

Now before we get to those, I gotta ask, we talked about this with Dan Byer when he's been here doing the update. When is too early or too late for anyone in your neighborhood to be doing any type of work mowing lawns, construction hammers and drills and revving cars and motorcycles? Do we have a time? Because I'll be honest, the other day, it was a Saturday morning and my next door neighbor must have been having some landscaping or work done. There were things going on at like 7:30 in the morning. And I almost wanted to be like, if my, if my neighbor wasn't a kind person, I'm assuming it was like a one off because they were just having work done. 7:30 on a Saturday. I almost wanted to get out of my house and be like, what the f are we doing here?

[Sports Announcer]

My mom used to say the nines. Covino. 9:00am and 9:00pm yeah, you know, understandable.

[Rich]

But what happens is the police showed up yesterday, right? Because again, is such a big deal and like the neighbors have had enough. The neighbor from hell, Gary, well, it.

[Covino]

Finally went to the news. They went to the news, reacted because it made the news.

[Rich]

And the police show up and the LAPD are telling like Fox 11 and all the local news outlets that they, they can't really make a citation against Gary because the officers need to hear the noise and observe the noise for themselves. So he split. The cops came, he was out. But then he did tell a story as to why he's making some of this noise. We'll get to that later. But right now we want you to start thinking about the worst roommates, the worst neighbors you ever had. The things they used to do to get under your skin.

[Jake Hofer]

Have you ever had a neighbor that made you move?

[Rich]

Yeah. Gary B. Not Gary V. Not Gary Vaynerchuk. That's our boy. Gary B. Boyadzian is driving his neighbors in Van Nuys, California, crazy. And he's mowing his lawn at 2am he's working on his car, he's banging, he's ringing alarms and blowing horns. The wee hours of the morning. It's been such a problem that it made the local news. And now it's become a national story. So much so that even Iowa Sam is saying, dude, I'M so tuned into this now because now the cops are involved, right? The news is involved. They finally caught up with Gary and are like, what's going on?

[Jake Hofer]

Why are you being a jerk, essentially, right?

[Rich]

I mean, and he's saying that the reason for the horn and all the loud noise is because he's being harassed by his ex girlfriend's father. He's saying his ex girlfriend's father. I know it's confusing, but this is his story. He shows up later on the night and he speaks to Fox 11 or whatever. He's like, my ex girlfriend's father has been terrorizing and torturing me for the past 20 years. So he says he blasts the horn and he makes all this noise to bring awareness to law enforcement that he needs help and he wants them to do their job. So he wants justice served against the guy that's harassing him. Therefore he's harassing everybody else. The whole thing doesn't make sense. And Iowa Sam is saying from following this, he believes that the dude is just sort of not right in the head.

[Jake Hofer]

I'm even more confused by my explanation.

[Covino]

Just my unofficial opinion. I don't think he's mentally there for.

[Sports Announcer]

A little more details because I unfortunately watched the whole clip. He says that 13 different occasions this girl's dad has sent guys to beat him up, and the police have taken him into custody, arrested him, and nothing happened to the guys who beat him up.

[Jake Hofer]

This is why you need to.

[Sports Announcer]

Oh, and he smacked the girl, by the way, when they broke up. He slapped her. And that's why he thinks the dad has it out for her.

[Rich]

So he wants justice because the police did nothing and he's in danger. So therefore he's terrorizing the whole neighborhood, making all this noise every night. And they're like, like, we can't take it anymore. It's a weird and developing story, but what's relatable about it is that I think everybody has some sort of horrible neighbor story and. Or roommate story because they're calling this the neighbor from hell. That's how bad it is.

[Jake Hofer]

Can you beat the neighbor? The neighbor from hell? I've, you know, I could think of all the people in this room. I don't even know if you could think of half your stories. I've thought of a few stories that I know over the last 10, 20 years of knowing you about neighbors from hell.

[Rich]

Well, unfortunately, I moved a lot and it seemed to be a pattern. You would think I was the common denominator, but I really wasn't. There was One particular story that I remember, I moved into this neighborhood and I swear to God, we used to call them the Devil's Rejects. That's the one probably that comes to mind to you first. And it was a bunch of like sketchy looking, hillbilly folks, let's just say that. And they did everything in the front of their house. Like the front of the house looked like Sanford and Son. It was one of those things, right?

[Jake Hofer]

It was a nice neighborhood. And they were doing like bench press on the front, the front lawn, right?

[Rich]

They're working out. They have a whole like gym in their front driveway. And it's like, what is going on here? Everything they did was sketchy and weird and they were really weird guys. But the worst story that I remember from living next door to the Devil's Rejects was, I swear to God is a true story. There was a car that came by and they were beeping in front of the house. This is just one of many stories, but the one that stands out the most, beeping in front of the house. And I hear all these obscenities and all the shouting and all this back and forth and I dip out to see what's going on. I'm cons, I'm the concerned neighbor. Like, what's going on? What's all this racket? The Devil's Rejects, my neighbors come out with their tank tops and their boxer briefs and their beer and their. They come out and they start shooting at the people in the car. So I'm not even making shooting guns. True story. Yeah, they had their pit.

[Jake Hofer]

No, no, no. Like they were shooting McGavin. I was saying, well, I don't know what to shoot. They were shooting dirty looks at them. Yeah, yeah.

[Covino]

They were playing laser tags, firing arms, water puzzles, fire.

[Rich]

I'm not even joking you. And again, this is a nice neighborhood in Los Angeles. This isn't the barrio, this isn't some hillbilly town. This is like the, the suburbs of la. Like, are you kidding me? I couldn't believe that these people like existed in this neighborhood. And everything they did was just the worst. They would take their garbage, you know, if their garbage was full. Cuz they were always like working on stuff. So they would take their trash and fill my garbage cans all the time. And it became a problem. Like, yo, like, what if I need room? I needed room for my own garbage and I had no room in my garbage cans because they were filling up my garbage cans all the time. Everything they did was a hassle and a half. And I called Them, the devil's rejects. That's just.

[Jake Hofer]

Just.

[Rich]

That's just one neighbor.

[Jake Hofer]

You had another neighbor that would steal your water. Kavino would find the guy grabbing during a drought. During. During a drought, would go there and fill up buckets of water from Kavino's hose.

[Rich]

We had him on camera. We had to confront them, swear to God.

[Jake Hofer]

Why you stealing my water?

[Rich]

Yeah, he would come there with buckets thinking nobody was home, and he was stealing water from our faucets. For what? For what? To bathe?

[Jake Hofer]

I don't. Dude, I have no idea.

[Rich]

My ex confronted him. She's like, what are you doing? And he explained that his wife was putting him up to it. Like, you're a pathetic guy.

[Jake Hofer]

Oh, boy.

[Rich]

Yeah. So that's another story. I always had all these crazy neighbor stories, man.

[Jake Hofer]

For sure. Our video guy Spot, might have the worst neighbor story.

[Rich]

Oh, you mean the guy that was upstairs on my balcony? So I would be sitting in my living room, and we live in Southern California, so most of the year, you like to leave the door open, let some air come in, enjoy the beautiful weather. Several times a day, from the upstairs balcony, the guy would come out. I assumed he was a smoker. And all I would hear is. And then he would hock it over his balcony. And sometimes there was one time, or no joke, I was standing on the edge of the balcony enjoying the weather. He comes out, does that. It, like, lands near my hand, like, right near, like, spitting directly down on me.

[Jake Hofer]

And I, like, yelled up at him.

[Rich]

And he didn't acknowledge. He just went back inside.

[Jake Hofer]

We actually called him the Spot. We used to call him Loogie guy.

[Rich]

I love that.

[Jake Hofer]

Loogie guy lived right above Spot. And I remember. I remember Spot Spot telling the final straw over here, Loogie Howser. The final straw.

[Sports Announcer]

Sam, please play a rim shot on your face.

[Jake Hofer]

No, I refuse. I was like. Am I correct in saying, even during, like, Covid, when people. When people are, like, real cautious because they didn't know what was going on, you were sitting on your balcony, and he, you know, he's spitting his dirty ass spit on the balcony.

[Rich]

Really? And we were home a lot, so.

[Jake Hofer]

I would hear this all the time.

[Rich]

And I'm not really a Karen or a Darren or whatever you say, but Aaron. Yeah, an Aaron. It was the height of COVID I.

[Covino]

Actually did report it to the building.

[Rich]

Because it was disgusting. Not that I was worried about. I was just more. I wanted to get him.

[Jake Hofer]

Yeah.

[Rich]

We established yesterday in for Dan Patrick, that the male equivalent of a Karen Is now an Aaron. After Aaron Rodgers complaining about the new helmets he has to wear.

[Jake Hofer]

Yeah, he's an Aaron. Yeah.

[Rich]

Yeah, he's an Aaron. So, yes, imagine spot watering his plants or even having a glass of wine with his wife on his own patio. Having to deal with that sound and the visual of the loogies dripping down in the middle of his. Of his toast to his beautiful wife. Like, the whole thing was horrible. We witnessed it. It was gross. So based on all these stories and based on Gary, who's making now national news, the neighbor from hell, what are your worst neighbor and roommate stories? 87799 on Fox. I'll leave you with one more story I could make real quick.

[Jake Hofer]

Oh, what about, what about, what about cigarette buckeye?

[Rich]

Which one?

[Jake Hofer]

When you lived in Jersey, the person that would put all their dirty ass cigarette butts and make a collection by your doorstep.

[Rich]

Oh, dude, in my bushes. Yeah, yeah. Hundreds of them. Yeah. There would be a guy who would. Who would use my bushes as his ashtray and I had to approach him. Yeah. I'm like, enough of this, dude. Yeah. I have so many of these stories, but in college, dude, again, if we're gonna incorporate roommates to this story, I had a roommate that would get so, so drunk. So twisted that one time I was in bed with my college girlfriend.

[Co-host]

And.

[Rich]

I had one of those. This, this just adds to the story because it was aggravating for me. I would use one of those, you know, those big giant woolly Mexican blankets.

[Jake Hofer]

Yeah.

[Rich]

I brought that with me to college. I know chicks love it. I know what you're thinking. Yeah, I know. Yeah, My deep dad gave it to me.

[Covino]

Are they wool?

[Rich]

Burlap? This is a wool blanket from the 1600s. So I have this blanket on me. We're cuddled underneath. We're sleeping in the middle of the night. My worst roommate was so twisted in the moment, he makes a wrong turn and thinks my bedroom is the bathroom room. And let's just say he uses my.

[Jake Hofer]

Bed as his urinal.

[Rich]

Yeah. As the urinal in the middle of the night. Not only on my girlfriend, but on my precious passed down woolly blanket from the 1700s. But I remember it. I remember hitting my back thinking, what? And I turned around, seeing this dude. Swear to God.

[Jake Hofer]

True story, dude. Yep.

[Rich]

It did not end well.

[Jake Hofer]

Well, I got two quickies and we'll go to your feedback. When I was on the east coast, I owned a house and I rented out a one bedroom apartment that was connected to my house, like a separate unit. So you're like, hey, I'll help. This person can help me pay my mortgage. I'll rent out the side apartment. That's when you think everyone's normal, and then you realize everyone you rent to is a lunatic. I had a girl fake cancer to get out of her lease.

[Rich]

How disgusting.

[Jake Hofer]

And I remember being like, oh, my God, that's the worst thing you could do. And then I had some really quiet girl. She was like, she was a lesbian. And that's part of the story because she's like. I remember her selling herself. Like, I'm just a quiet girl that keeps to herself. You know, me and my girlfriend, like, just simple lesbian. Just a simple lesbian. That was, like her selling point.

[Rich]

I'm just a chill lesbian.

[Jake Hofer]

Yeah. I was like, oh, chill lesbian. Okay, cool. Stop it. And when I tell you, I come home one day and there is a lesbian royal rumble on my front lawn. There's like seven lesbians fighting over who's hooking up with who. I had a call. I had to call the police and be like, yo, there is a. It was like. Honestly, it was like a WNBA brawl. It was wild.

[Rich]

Yeah, people are tough, man. So think about that, though. If everybody has terrible stories, and we all do. 87799 on Fox to share yours, imagine how bad this guy Gary must be to be deemed now the neighbor from hell. He must be pretty bad, man.

[Jake Hofer]

Yeah. So let's. Let's take a couple quickies. I will get into some NFL, but like I said, Denzel Washington will explain why it's hard to really talk about preseason football. Coming up, we'll explain. John of Montana, you're on a cavin on Rich. What's up, buddy?

[Co-host]

You guys love the show.

[Jake Hofer]

Thank you, man.

[Co-host]

Yeah, so years ago, I was living with my now ex wife in a fourplex, and, you know, nobody love loves or anything, like, having to deal with, like, domestic violence, like, neighbors and everything. So at one point, there was just enough was enough, and I went down to, like, check on them, see if everything was okay. The woman who actually was the victim, she ended up getting mad at me because I was, like, trying to help. So I'm like, all right, screw this. I'm just gonna call the police. And then the police got in there, and like, two weeks later, they were all evicted. And, like, we never heard from them. I'm just like, why? Why not accept any sort of help, you know?

[Jake Hofer]

Yeah. No, dude, it's. It's amazing. You wonder, like, how do these people pass the process? But I guess people gotta live Somewhere there's trash bags everywhere. Bad neighbors, bad roommates. It happens. Spot, in college, didn't you have a roommate that always kicked you out because he was like a sex fiend?

[Rich]

I mean, that's just college.

[Jake Hofer]

Like, Spot would always come home, and the guy. It was a big dude, wasn't it? Like a big, big guy on the basketball team. And he, like, puts a note on the door, like, not allowing you back in or something.

[Rich]

I mean, everyone's been there, right?

[Covino]

We've all been on the door. But, like, to not have access to.

[Jake Hofer]

Your own place, Spot had to sleep in the freshman lounge three days a week.

[Rich]

What was his name? Spot. I remember that. Gonna.

[Jake Hofer]

You gonna.

[Rich]

And I remember. Yeah, we joked, you gotta sleep outside.

[Jake Hofer]

You gonna.

[Rich]

That's so funny, dude.

[Jake Hofer]

Oh, man.

[Rich]

You know what else is really unfortunate, too, is a lot of these neighbor stories. Like, if you're a homeowner and you have one of these neighbors, they're just bringing down the value, bringing down the vibe. It's like, if you take a lot of pride in your home and you have that one a hole who's not keeping things up to par, and he's the guy letting the house go, the neighborhood go. It's like, what an eyesore that you have to deal with because you have to. He's looking at your house. Your house is beautiful. You got to look at his.

[Jake Hofer]

His.

[Rich]

His trash all the time.

[Jake Hofer]

And. And I think it's different if you rent or own your place, because if you rent leases up, if you're that unhappy, you could be like, you know what? This person's so bad, they're driving me out of here. I'm getting a new place.

[Rich]

It's the worst.

[Jake Hofer]

If you own your home, and it's like your home where you're raising your kids, school district, a bad neighbor, you're sort of stuck with them.

[Rich]

Yep. It's.

[Jake Hofer]

Unfortunately, anytime one of your neighbors moves, I know we all have that same feeling where it's like, please have the new person be normal. Please have the new person be normal, Please.

[Rich]

That's a real thing, Rich.

[Sports Announcer]

When you're renting in an apartment complex, you're almost guaranteed to have a couple of crazy neighbors.

[Jake Hofer]

Yeah, that's true. It really is. That's a fact.

[Covino]

I would rather have, though, a neighbor if they. Maybe they have a blighted property. As long as they're not bothering me. If they're not doing the noise thing after dark, yes, maybe it's dilapidated home. I understand it brings down property values, but, like, if they're blasting music, if they're doing weird stuff like this Gary, dude, that's where I have a real problem. You're infiltrating my life now.

[Jake Hofer]

Sam, I feel like you'd be a great neighbor.

[Covino]

I am a. I'm very aware of, like, how loud am I playing music. Like, I. If someone, if I see a package left by our mailboxes, like, I'll take it to their doorstep. Like, I try to be a good neighbor and I expect other people to.

[Rich]

Like a good neighbor, Iowa, San.

[Covino]

The guy John in Montana, he's a good neighbor. He went over because he cared and he knocked on the door. And for that woman to get mad at him, she's just stuck in some terrible situation.

[Rich]

You think that my luck would change, right? I own a condo now. It's like my post divorce proud condo that I had and I have. And the day I moved in, the day I moved in, the movers ran late. So I'll say I take accountability, that the move ran late. And you're not supposed to move into like a condo complex. Like after 10pm it was like midnight at this point, and they were still moving some stuff in. But that was on the movers, not necessarily on me. There was nothing I could do. I wasn't gonna leave my stuff with the movers. Long story short, I'm moving in. It's my first day there in this new building. Some maniac woman that lives there came barging into my front door in her nightgown to yell at me like I was a schoolboy and reprimand me. And I was like, get out of my house, crazy lady. And great first impression. My first night there, she called the police on me, dude. Swear to God that great.

[Covino]

Got off to a great start there.

[Jake Hofer]

Yeah.

[Rich]

These are the people. People that I got to deal with.

[Jake Hofer]

Never mind the crazy HOA in your neighborhood.

[Rich]

Exactly. So it's a very relatable story, and I think that's why Iowa Sam's been following it, why Danny G. Brought it up, and why we're bringing it to you here on Fox Sports Radio. Gary, the neighbor from hell in Van Nuys, California. You'll be seeing it on your social media feed, I'm sure. Within no time. A foot washed up. A shoe with some bones in it. They had no idea who it was.

[Co-host]

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[Covino]

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[Jake Hofer]

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[Jake Hofer]

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[Rich]

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[Jake Hofer]

And they're saying, like, okay, pull this.

[Covino]

Until this, pull that, Turn this.

[Rich]

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[Sports Announcer]

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[Rich]

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[Jake Hofer]

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[Covino]

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[Jake Hofer]

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[Podcast Announcer]

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[Jake Hofer]

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[Rich]

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[Co-host]

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[Rich]

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[Rich]

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[Jake Hofer]

Daryl, you're on in Washington state. What's up, buddy?

[Co-host]

Hey, can you guys hear me okay?

[Jake Hofer]

Yeah, you're on, man. What's up?

[Co-host]

Yeah, so I. I had a roommate, man, and basically my. One of my pet peeves is drinking juice out of the carton. And, like, he was notorious for drinking my stuff. And I come home and the juice would be drinking. You could see, like a piece of meat, like, backwash in it. And then we also had a rule, he smoked. So the deal was no smoking in the place. You take it out to the balcony. But I come home and I smell Smoke. And it was like, I wasn't smoking. It's like, come on, man. So, yeah, when you talk about.

[Jake Hofer]

No, it's funny, Daryl. It's so funny. And again, we all have friends or family that smoke cigarettes or weed or whatever. Through the years, I always found it funny when smokers would try to pull a fast one on you. Like, I don't smoke in my car. And I'm like, dude, we have a friend, Barry. Remember our buddy Barry Covino?

[Rich]

Of course, he smelled like weed all the time.

[Jake Hofer]

He was convinced. I go, dude, you just got a brand new car and you're smoking cigarettes and weed in your car? And he's like, yo, it doesn't smell, bro. I'm like, you don't think it smells like an ashtray? Come on. Come on.

[Covino]

It's. Cause he's been in the.

[Jake Hofer]

He's been in it.

[Covino]

He doesn't understand.

[Jake Hofer]

Rocky in Stockton, California. What's up, Robin Rock?

[Co-host]

Hey, man, can you hear me all right?

[Jake Hofer]

Yeah, you're on.

[Co-host]

Hey, man. Yeah, just wanted to say get it out of the way before I anything you guys. I'm not to be kissing ass or anything, but you guys are great. You guys are doing the best. The best show on the. On radio. Just want to put that out there.

[Jake Hofer]

Oh, thank you, man.

[Rich]

Means a lot, man.

[Co-host]

Yeah, no problem. So, hey, so, yeah, this was like back in. Back in the early 90s when I was a kid, man, when we. Our very first night, we moved into this new house and. And our neighbors came to our house. A couple tried to sell us a Thanksgiving turkey. I mean, we're not even done loading anything yet, and they're trying to sell us a turkey. My dad turned them down. They turned around and asked to borrow money. They didn't even know us.

[Jake Hofer]

You want a turkey?

[Co-host]

Yeah. I mean, they should have known. We should have known what was to come because the whole time there they lived next to us. They would just constantly come over, ringing the door behind, asking to borrow this, that, and the other. Even money. It's like, man, come on, we don't even know you people.

[Jake Hofer]

What the hell, guys? I need you to tell me now. You know, perspective changes as you get older. Could we play a quick round to wrap this? Could we play a round of Was I the bad neighbor, or were they the bad neighbor?

[Covino]

I love this topic, by the way. I'm getting all riled up over here.

[Jake Hofer]

Getting all hot and bothered. Please, let's be real here. When I was a kid, in my mind, Vinnie was a bad neighbor. This Old Italian guy. You know why? Because anytime the kids in the neighborhood would play tackle football, he would put his sprinklers on so that no one would go on his lawn. But now as an adult, I'm like, were we the bad neighbors for going on his lawn, or was he the kids or is he the bad neighbor? Like, if we were playing wiffle ball, anything there where we'd go near his property, he'd just crank on the sprinklers purposefully to disrupt the game. Or if we were playing street football, you know, where the curbs are, the sidelines, essentially, he would park there so we wouldn't play.

[Rich]

Rich, as an adult, you totally understand. Now, come on, dude. We saw a bunch of kids from the neighborhood playing on your lawn, bro. You would have a flip out, dude.

[Jake Hofer]

My. My childhood was spent playing team hide and seek. We called it manhunt, which sounds weird as an adult now. Manhunt, a game some may still play, but we played manhunt Team hide and seek. Do you know any neighbors that probably stepped in their flower beds and stuff? If a kid stepped on my roses right now, I would punch a kid.

[Sports Announcer]

I mean, the flowers I get. But when we were just throwing a football around on somebody's green grass.

[Jake Hofer]

Yeah, I wouldn't care, honestly, if they were neighborhood kids and they went on my lawn. Cause they were playing football and the ball would go on my lawn, I wouldn't care. But there were neighbors. You know, everyone had that neighbor where if.

[Sports Announcer]

If it went in their backyard, they went in there.

[Rich]

Yeah, it's mine. Yeah, everybody had that.

[Sports Announcer]

We had. We had a neighbor in Rialto, California. If one of our balls went in his backyard, he took a buck knife out and popped the ball. While we were.

[Rich]

Hater.

[Sports Announcer]

Yeah, While we were watching, like, he made sure. He made sure to have eye contact. And then.

[Jake Hofer]

What a mean guy. Sounds like out of a TV show. Danny. You look at me, kid pop.

[Covino]

Like, I get that. Like, you're ruining someone's grass. You're messing up their sod. Like, make. Listen, they put a lot of time into their grass. Like, if you're the kids, maybe you ask permission if you can play in the yard. Or, like, you should clear that. I understand where he's coming from.

[Jake Hofer]

Yeah. I have one funny story. One of the moms at the school that my wife and I are friendly with, they caught someone on the ring doorbell, constantly letting the dog go to the bathroom on their lawn.

[Rich]

Oh, that's the worst.

[Jake Hofer]

And they confronted the person with video, like, here's you and your dog.

[Covino]

It's like an episode of Cheaters.

[Jake Hofer]

Like, here's you and your dog. Your dog is squatting, like, near my porch. And the woman was like, no, not my dog. It must have been a coyote. And it's like the video gaslighting I have in my hand.

[Rich]

I used to hate too rich. I confronted neighbors because. And I'm not looking for trouble. I'm just a chill, straight man. I'm just a chill guy. I had neighbors that would always throw their dog's poop in a. In a bag and. But never really tied in my garbage cans when they were on the street.

[Jake Hofer]

I'm okay with that.

[Rich]

Yeah, but, dude, what would happen is they would smush on the bottom of the can, and it would be disgusting, all because they'd be throwing their stuff in my can. How are you okay with that?

[Jake Hofer]

That's fair game.

[Rich]

That's not fair.

[Covino]

Is the trash going out, or has it already been emptied? If it's empty, do not throw it.

[Jake Hofer]

In, by the way. Yeah, but could just. You're right.

[Covino]

Also tie the bag.

[Rich]

It would be so gross every time because they would use my garbage can.

[Covino]

It smells if you don't type.

[Jake Hofer]

I was. Sam's right. There's a right answer and a wrong one. If the garbage had been picked up and your empty cans waiting to be pulled back, you don't put your dog poo in there.

[Rich]

That's what I mean. On the bottom of the can.

[Jake Hofer]

But, you know, if garbage. If garbage comes Friday morning and someone's walking their dog Thursday night and the cans are out, that's fine.

[Rich]

That's fine. Exactly.

[Jake Hofer]

Deal. All right, let's take one quickie. Wallace in North Carolina. We haven't talked to Wallace in a while. What's up, man?

[Rich]

Hey, Wallace. What's up? Say hi from it.

[Jake Hofer]

What's up?

[Co-host]

First I want to say y' all are. Y' all make my ride home enjoyable every night.

[Jake Hofer]

Oh, thanks, man.

[Co-host]

So I live in a house in a community. I have a house. People are 250 yards away from me. In the next house, new neighbors move in. I smoke cigars. They come over. The first day they're in there, tell me I can't smoke cigars on my backpack because they can smell it.

[Jake Hofer]

Two football fields. Two football fields, and they're busting your chops.

[Co-host]

Yes. So I said, well, that's fine. I said, I'll see what I can do about it. That week, the first weekend, I invited every person I knew to come smoke cigars on my Back deck.

[Rich]

That's so funny. Hey, it's good to be back at our normal slot. Five to seven on the east, two to four on the west.

[Jake Hofer]

Yeah.

[Rich]

For Dan Patrick Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and waiting for Dan Patrick again tomorrow. So please remember to follow the podcast. Cause I don't want you guys missing out. We've been having a lot of fun. Hope your week's going well. And I hope the kids are having a great first day back to school out on the west side.

[Jake Hofer]

Hey, is it odd that much like sports, Covino and I are oddly competitive, and I want to make sure our show has the most viewed YouTube stream. So again, if you enjoy the show and our stupid antics every day, just do us a quick favor. It's free. I'm not asking you to buy something. I'm not involving you in a p pyramid scheme or telling you to buy. You know, are you gonna have me.

[Sports Announcer]

Start bribing the YouTube subscribers?

[Jake Hofer]

What did your mom. Your mom always had a friend that would make her buy, like Skin so Soft or the Avon lady. We're not asking you to buy anything.

[Rich]

We're not selling you Skin so Soft. Tupperware, Cutco knives or anything like that.

[Jake Hofer]

We're not selling Swampland.

[Rich]

Yeah. We're telling you to hit one button and to send it to your buddies. It's free. You can see our show live in studio, behind the scenes.

[Jake Hofer]

Yeah, listen, I wanted to add. I wanted to add another thousand new people today. So again, YouTube.com/at Coveenonrich FSR. Thank you in advance. I appreciate all the support. You guys are great. Here to us at Fox Sports Radio. Now Camino, before we get to Denzel Washington, we were talking about, like, the worst neighbors and bad neighbors. That was our throwback conversation. A lot of great feedback there. We were just saying how, like, where wherever you live, sometimes there's a reason why that really sweet apartment is available. Because there is some weird rub like, oh, the lady that lives upstairs is a wackadoo. Like sometimes when something seems too good to be true, that might be the reason. Man, this house has been on the market. How did no one scoop it up? And then you realize the, like, the next door neighbors, like you said, are part of a motorcycle gang.

[Rich]

Yeah. They're shooting guns out of their house saying, get out of my town. Yeah. It was horrible. So worst neighbor ever. Out of California. Neighbor from hell. Follow the story. We'll take one last call. We'll talk Denzel 87799 on Fox @COVINOENRICH on Social Media. Who do we got?

[Jake Hofer]

Let's say, how do you do to Andy in Mississippi?

[Sports Announcer]

He says he. He says he was the bad neighbor.

[Jake Hofer]

Oh, that's. You know, self awareness is good. What's up, Andy?

[Co-host]

Hey, guys. How's it going?

[Jake Hofer]

What's up, bro?

[Co-host]

Hey. I was in my mid teens. My dad built a concrete dog run for my dog, and I'd have to go out there and spray it with a water hose to get the pee off. And then this is back when they had paper. Paper grocery bags, and I'd take two of those and put the poop in there. Well, I got sick of doing that. I'm thinking, huh, why don't you just throw it over the fence? Well, I picked the wrong fence. I should have picked the fence that was in our property. But I did our mutual fence with our neighbors, and about a week or so goes by, their kids were probably under 10. And like, so you've been picking up that, you know, taking care of Kelly. And I was like, yeah, yeah. It's like, well, doing the poop, taking to the trash. Yeah. Can you tell me where the neighbor's kids have? Freaking dog on the feet.

[Jake Hofer]

What a great call. But you dropped the S word. You can't do that. But, hey, great call.

[Covino]

Can you hear the pod?

[Rich]

To hear what he said next. Catch the pod. Search Kovino and Rich for every stream.

[Jake Hofer]

Your podcast or on the YouTube stream, because we can't edit that, right? If you want to hear what he said, YouTube. Hey, I want to move. I want to move on from poop.

[Sports Announcer]

Again, if you want to hear what Andy said next.

[Jake Hofer]

Could I cove. Could I.

[Covino]

It's a good story, though.

[Jake Hofer]

Can I make one last rule before we get to Isaac and our. And our. Our Denzel story? Based on the fact that we all want to be good neighbors, right? If you are getting work done, if you are having a landscape like butt implants. Yeah. If you are getting work done, like a bbl. Now, if you. If, like, I'm like, we're redoing the pavers in our backyard, right? We're, you know, if you're getting some landscaping work done or, you know, a new garage door. What is the rule? Should you give your neighbors the heads up? Like, hey, just to be a neighborly neighbor hurts.

[Rich]

Just. Yeah, it doesn't hurt. I don't think you have to.

[Jake Hofer]

Hey, Saturday, we're gonna have some construction workers over.

[Rich]

Pardon me in advance.

[Covino]

You know, like, I think that goes a long way.

[Jake Hofer]

It goes a long way because then they won't Be a pain in the ass if they do make noise. It's like if you warn your parents. I'm sorry. If you warn the neighbors, like, hey, we're gonna have a party. We might be a little loud. It's a graduation party. They'd be less inclined to be an ass to you if you give them a heads up or invite them over for a drink. Your neighbor's never gonna complain if you say, hey, we're having a cookout. Why don't you swing by for a drink? Guess what? That neighbor won't get do. Call the cops if you're loud.

[Covino]

Hey, Rich, I'm moving in next door, okay? I'd be a great neighbor. I'll be over all the time.

[Jake Hofer]

My neighbors are selling their house soon and it is a fear of mine. I'm not going to lie.

[Rich]

But dude, you got to be real, a real stick in a tight ass to want to call the police or complain when people are just having a good time. You know, if they're celebrating a quinceanera or Hank's retirement party. You know what I mean?

[Jake Hofer]

Like Hank, do you.

[Rich]

Dude, there was a. There was a quinceanera in my neighborhood and it was like right behind my house.

[Co-host]

House.

[Rich]

They had a full on mechanical bull that I could see from my patio. A Mexican DJ. They had like 800 people there. My only complaint was that I wasn't invited.

[Jake Hofer]

Yes, exactly. Yeah. And we all know you, you love the tortas. All right, let's. Let's go to Lowencraft for an update.

[Sports Announcer]

I heart presents the big three playoffs this Sunday. The remaining four teams battle to make their championship in the most physical, fierce and competitive basketball league in the world. The action starts with the big three Monster Energy celebrity game. Then Dwight Howard and his LA Riot take on Montrez Harrell and Dr. J Chicago triplets. The finale will see popular Miami 305 with stars MVP Michael Beasley and Lance Stevenson take on Nancy Lieberman's Dallas power who will make it to the big three championship. The no holds barred action starts Sunday at 3pm Eastern, 12 Pacific only on CBS.

[Jake Hofer]

I'm Jake Hofer and this is Back 40, a limited series show on wire to hunt, part of meat eaters podcast network. Each episode I'll be asking eight whitetail hunting pros a focused, thought provoking question about hunting and land management.

[Co-host]

How do I hunt the best part.

[Jake Hofer]

Of the farm with less than ideal access?

[Rich]

Should you? That's what the real question is.

[Jake Hofer]

Stand without good access is not a good stand.

[Co-host]

Listen to Back 40 on iHeartRadio app.

[Jake Hofer]

Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

[John Lithgow]

Hello, I'm John Lithgow.

[Co-host]

We choose to go to the moon.

[John Lithgow]

I wanna tell you about my new fiction podcast, One Fiction Small Step for Man about Buzz Aldrin, one of the true pioneers of space.

[Covino]

You're a great pilot, Buzz.

[John Lithgow]

That's the story you think you know. This is the story you don't. Buzz, starring me, John Lithgow, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Co-host]

Let's start with a quick puzzle. The answer is Ken Jennings appearance on the Puzzler with AJJ K. The question is, what is the most entertaining listening experience in podcast land Jeopardy truthers believe in?

[John Lithgow]

I guess they would be conspiracy theorists.

[Co-host]

That's right.

[Jake Hofer]

They gave you the answers and you still blew it.

[Co-host]

The puzzler listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Rich]

Get fired up, y'. All.

[Podcast Announcer]

Season 2 of Good Game with Sarah Spain is underway. We just welcomed one of my favorite people, comparable soccer icon Megan Rapinoe, to the show, and we had a blast. Take a listen. Sue and I were, like, riding the lime bikes the other day, and we're.

[Jake Hofer]

Like, wee people ride bikes because it's fun.

[Podcast Announcer]

We got more incredible guests like Megan in store, plus news of the day and more.

[Rich]

So make sure you listen to Good.

[Podcast Announcer]

Game with Sarah Spain on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Brought to you by Novartis, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports Network work. This is an iHeart podcast.