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Steph Curry
Make some noise for the greatest shooter of all time, Steph Curry. We went live from All Star Weekend for a new podcast called Goat Greatest of Their Era. And we ranked our top five shooters from the 2000s.
Peja Stojaković
Peja 5, Dirk Ford.
Dirk Nowitzki
Peja is alone.
Steph Curry
You won't believe who Steph left off his list.
Peja Stojaković
That's so tough. That's why we have these conversations.
Steph Curry
Yes, absolutely.
Peja Stojaković
Love it.
Steph Curry
Listen to Goat G O T e Greatest of Their era on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Questlove
Hey, everybody, what's up? This is Questlove, and every year we do special programming in February for Black History Month. Now, it's especially important this year as we gear up for some new conversations. So the team and I compiled some clips from the show that are worth revisiting. In part one of the celebration of Black History Month, we're listening back to Moments with Chris Rock, Solange Prodigy, Ben Vereen, Jennifer Lewis, Angela Rye, and Gina Yashore. Listen to Questlove supreme on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.
Colleen Witt
Are you hungry? Colleen Witt here and Eating While Broke is back for season four every Thursday on the Black Effect Podcast Network. This season we've got a legendary lineup serving up broke dishes and even better stories. On the menu we have Tony Baker, Nick Cannon, Melissa Ford, October London, and Carrie Harper. Howie turning Big Macs into big moves. Catch Eating While Broke every Thursday on the Black Effect podcast, Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast. Wherever you get your favorite shows, come hungry for season four.
Mary Kay McBrayer
I'm Mary Kay McBrayer, host of the podcast the Greatest True Crime Stories Ever Told. This season explores women from the 19th century to now. Women who were murderers and scammers, but also women who were photojournalists, lawyers, writers, and more. This podcast tells more than just the brutal, gory details of horrific acts. I delve into the good, the bad, the difficult, and all the nuance I can find because these are the stories that we need to know to understand the intersection of society, justice, and the fascinating workings of the human psyche. Join me every week as I tell some of the most enthralling true crime stories about women who are not just victims, but heroes or villains, or often somewhere in between. Listen to the greatest true crime stories ever told on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Mark Seale
I'm Mark Seale.
Dirk Nowitzki
And I'm Nathan King.
Mark Seale
This is Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli.
Covino
The Five families did not want us to shoot that picture.
Dirk Nowitzki
This podcast is based on my co host Mark Seals bestselling book of the same title. Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli features new and archival interviews with Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Evans, James Caan, Talia Shire, and many others.
Mark Seale
Yes, that was a real horse's head.
Dirk Nowitzki
Listen and subscribe to Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, thanks for listening to the Covino and Rich podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weekday from 5 to 7 Eastern, 2 to 4 Pacific, on Fox Sports Radio.
Covino
Find your local station for Camino and rich@foxsportsradio.com or stream us live every day on the iHeartRadio app by searching FSR. Oh yeah.
Dirk Nowitzki
Welcome to Stevie's Playhouse. Yes, the C and R Playhouse. Covino and Rich.
Covino
What's up, man? Ready to bring it for two hours of fun or what?
Dirk Nowitzki
Fun's the magic word.
Covino
All right, I was Sam pressing the buttons and having fun.
Dirk Nowitzki
Fun.
Covino
Danny G. Super producing. We got Dan Byer in the UPD lights and Spotty's got the videos all at Covino and Rich doing it live from the tire rack.com studio.
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Covino
And don't forget, check out the fox Sports Radio YouTube channel. And after our show today, our bonus podcast, our video show that streams live on the fox Sports Radio YouTube channel. Over promised. And based on what we got going on today, I'll tell you one thing we're definitely gonna get to in honor. In honor of a man that passed away yesterday at the age of 95.
Dirk Nowitzki
Gene Hackman, in honor of his role in Hoosiers, we'll go over some of the best coaches in movies and TV on over promised. Again, our bonus show on fox Sports Radio's YouTube page. It'll go live at four and two hours, two hours from now if you want to join the live chat and check it out, buddy.
Covino
You made me think of that because she said a tire rack. And I'm thinking you got to put Lou Brown on the list.
Dirk Nowitzki
Oh, yeah, definitely Lou Brown. But what a crazy story. Gene Hackman. Because for years so many people thought he was dead already. I remember there was a point in time where Gene Hackman was one of those guys that was like, wait, he died, right?
Covino
Oh, wow, he's around.
Dirk Nowitzki
He's alive. And Then he resurfaced about a year ago. People were like, man, there he is. I thought he died. No, he's alive. And then as of today, you woke up and you got the sad news that Gene Hackman, 95, and his 64 year old wife were found in their Santa Fe home, dead with their dog. And at first it was no foul play. They're dead. Carbon monoxide poisoning is what you heard, but as of this afternoon, you're now hearing, ooh, suspicious details. And that's odd. That's weird again, 95 year old guy, he had a great life. But they did find pills and the wife's body next to a personal heater and weird things like that. It's like, well, what was going on there? And like, partially embalmed or something. That's what our buddy Spot was reading to us earlier. You're like, what? We say details are coming out as we go.
Covino
We may never know. The reality is that they're gone. And what do we really need to find out? But I did have a.
Dirk Nowitzki
But it's an odd ending to a long life, an illustrious career.
Covino
It's like you live to 95 and have all that success.
Rich
Yeah. Rich detectives aren't gonna say, oh, we're never, we'll never know.
Covino
I know there will be an investigation, I'm sure. But I feel like if you live to 95, that's a hell of a life. And a successful life at it, so.
Rich
But his wife was so much younger.
Covino
Yeah. 30 years younger. So that it's an unfortunate story.
Dirk Nowitzki
When I heard the carbon monoxide thing, I thought maybe Gene Hackman was feeling like it was coming to an end. Health issues just because of old age. And maybe the wife. I was thinking I was romanticizing the whole thing, like, and maybe the wife didn't want to live without him and they decided to go out together.
Rich
Yeah, that wouldn't be fair to the dog, though. You give the dog to family or friends.
Dirk Nowitzki
They did find two other dogs that were alive. But again, in honor of Gene Hackman and his role in Hoosiers, we're going to go over the best coaches in sports, in TV and film. Get on over promised, and we're going to talk some nasty Nestor. It's a weird story though.
Covino
Yeah, man. I have a vain question to, I guess lighten it up a little bit. If you live till 95 years old, first of all, you've won the lottery of life. Famous actor, made millions and lived to 95. Two Oscars. I mean, here's my question.
Dirk Nowitzki
Enemy of the state, Superman, Lex Luthor.
Covino
He was in the Royal. He was also, wasn't he in that movie where Jennifer Love Hewitt was bouncing around in her 20s, you know what.
Dirk Nowitzki
Heart she was so distracting.
Dan Byer
I don't remember seeing anything but with Sigourney Weaver or. Yeah, I think Heartbreakers.
Covino
Heartbreakers. Yeah.
Dirk Nowitzki
I didn't even notice he was in it.
Covino
Boing. Vain question. When you live that long and they pay tribute to your life at your wake, your funeral. If you're a public figure like a Gene Hackman, do you want your picture to be one of you when you were a handsome young man? Because I'm seeing so many pictures of the 95 year old went on a decrepit walk around the block a year ago picture. And I'm like, that's not how you want Gene Hackman to remember. You want him to be remembered as the badass he was. Like I was. Sam said winning Oscars Superman and French Connection.
Dirk Nowitzki
I think it depends how life you lived. Meaning if you died, let's say you die in your 60s, unfortunately, right. You've lived the majority of your life as a younger person. So I would think it would be fair to pick a picture in your 30s, 40s, when you're still relatively young. But if you were synonymous with looking like an old guy for a long time, you have just as much of your life as an old person. Why would you want to bring it back to your primo days of your 20s and 30s? It's not who you were for the latter part of your long ass life.
Covino
No. But all right, if you're Marlin Brando, have you ever. Do you want to be old fat guy in your pictures? You want to be A Streetcar Named Desire, Marlon Brando.
Dirk Nowitzki
Yeah, but we, we work in the entertainment industry, right. It's like the people that still have their head shots from their 20s, it's like, yo, dude, you haven't been looking like that for the past 20 years. That's also like false advertising in a.
Mark Seale
Weird way, I'll tell you. I don't think it's a vain comment, Rich. I actually think it's a realistic comment. And not to bring anything down, but unfortunately my mother in law passed away in 2018. My father in law is still alive. And after that, after his wife's passing, he wanted a headshot. He wanted like a photo of himself. And so at some point, you know, like six months later or whatever, my wife ended up taking him for that reason of he wanted, you know, a legitimate photo. Yes. That represented who he was at that time. And it was her passing that made him realize that I should, I should get this done. I don't have this. We used a great picture of her from, you know, from a family situation, but it wasn't a posed studio picture. He wanted that for when he went. So it's a real, like it's not a. I don't think it's vanity by any means. I think it's like a realistic decision that you.
Dirk Nowitzki
That's a really great story, Dan. You know, that's. Talk about thinking ahead, man. And I was going to say this, but Dan already said it kind of when they chose your mother in law's, they looked for a good photo. I think the best answer here is where do you look your happiest?
Mark Seale
Sure. Right, yeah.
Dirk Nowitzki
So if, if, if you didn't do what Dan's father in law did, then you just got to get that happiest photo of the happiest time of your life, whether you were older or younger. You know, it's an interesting question. It really is because Rich is right. If you look through all the TMZs and all the stories that are talking about Gene Hackman, it's not him as a young man wearing an ascot as Lex Luthor. A lot of it is his recent days when he was 94 years old walking around town and it doesn't even look like the guy you remember. People age quickly.
Covino
Think of a sports figure that passed away over the last couple years. John Madden lived a nice life. Boom. I don't expect mutton chop on, you know, being carried off the field. John Madden. But I don't want the final days John Madden. How about, you know, when he was in his primo days in the booth with Pat Summerall and the world knew him in the maybe the 1990s.
Dirk Nowitzki
John Madden, how do you want to be remembered? Is really, I guess, the question and it's not your happiest. I don't know if. And again, unfortunately people die at all different ages. Rich. I remember the one thing, John Madden had a long career. We remember different stages of his life. So you want to pick one that's somewhat recent, but it's not your dying days.
Covino
I remember seeing a story on the news and please, I'm not trying to make light of this. I remember thinking this is terrible. There was a story about a younger person who lost their life and then. And the news used to picture them with like a bunny ear filter from Instagram.
Dirk Nowitzki
No, that's true. I remember that and I Remember being.
Covino
Like the family said, this is the. What are we doing?
Dirk Nowitzki
Well, unfortunately, that's the world that we kind of live in now.
Dan Byer
If the family doesn't provide a photo, they have to go hunting for one online.
Dirk Nowitzki
Right.
Dan Byer
That was the only one they could find, unfortunately. Who knows?
Dirk Nowitzki
Yeah, Good luck trying to find a picture of a young person without a filter.
Covino
Jane Johnson passed away and I'm like, she has a dog nose filter on. What do we. Come on.
Dirk Nowitzki
I remember that because in the most respectful way possible, we laughed at not necessarily the announcement, but the times that we're living in. Like, can you believe that's the photo they're using?
Covino
What an unfortunate story. And that's what we put up. So, you know, again, maybe it isn't a vain thought, it's a, it's a real life thought, which is if you live a nice long life, maybe it's a picture of you, God willing, you live to a nice old age. A picture of you with your grandkids because you're at your happiest, maybe you as a middle aged man or woman when you were in your prime of working and everything.
Dirk Nowitzki
Okay, so to answer your question though, right. Gene Hackman, 95.
Covino
My point is, I'm done seeing 94 year old Gene Hackman photos. I think it's a disrespect because he was the man. He was in a lot of great stuff and he lived a great life. I don't think every press photo should be when he was wearing a pair of New Balance taking a walk for the first time in, you know, at 94 years old last year.
Dirk Nowitzki
Well, and I also don't think it should be a picture of him in his 20s or even 30s, because he lived such a long life. 60s or 60s.
Dan Byer
No, that's how we remember Gene Hackman.
Dirk Nowitzki
Exactly. If you go back, Royal Townenbaums was filmed in 2001. That's 25 years ago. Right. That would have made him, you know, 70.
Mark Seale
Early 70s.
Dirk Nowitzki
Yeah, early 70s. That's kind of how I remember him.
Dan Byer
For the most part.
Dirk Nowitzki
So I think that's good. You got to find a compromise there.
Covino
Let me give you one more. When the late, great Betty White passed away, there were too many pictures floating around of like her final days. And I'm like, no, no, that was criticized. Golden Girls, Betty White, Always Sunny or all the different, you know, hosting Saturday Night Live, baby. Yeah, like, like, I just thought it was like in bad taste, like, so her last living photo was like, you know, like an unhealthy Looking.
Mark Seale
I'll tell you what, you're Madden. I'm now starting to rethink your Madden point.
Covino
Maybe it is being carried off at.
Mark Seale
The money shopping, if that is your high point of your profession and where you were like, that's got to be a Mount Rushmore part of his life outside of his children being born, but probably the George Washington of the Mount Rushmore part of his life. That wouldn't be a bad pick considering we've seen John Madden throughout the years. So I think that could be justified at that point. If Gene Hackman's picture was him winning the Oscar, I don't think that's entirely, necessarily a bad thing. If it is the top. Top of your profession.
Covino
What did they use when Michael Jackson passed away? Did they use like young Jackson 5 stuff? Probably not. Did they use like, I look a little odd in the final days Michael Jackson or did they use like.
Rich
No, it was mostly the thriller era.
Dirk Nowitzki
I mean, they should have used the thriller era. That's when he looked his best.
Covino
Based on that to tie in with Dan said about Madden. Maybe it is. When were you your happiest? If you're a regular person like all of us, when were you at your personal best and happiest? Or if you're a celebrity, maybe it is when you were in your prime.
Dirk Nowitzki
So then pick a picture of me at about 14, before women got in the picture, because I feel like they took.
Covino
That's what you. At your best.
Dirk Nowitzki
Yeah, yeah. Women made my life more of a hassle than it's been worth. Just kidding. No, I'm not. Yes, I am. But here's Gene Hackman, Royal Tannenbaums. Like, that's fair. He's older, but he's not 95. So he's in his 70, like early 70s there. Early. But he still looks like Gene Hackman and healthy and happy. So do you go at your happiest where you looked your. If you say Rich, that's when I looked my best, then I think it's a vanity thing. That's where I was my best. I think that's a fair assessment.
Covino
Go. Can I throw you a little side tangent question? As we say, rest in peace, Gene Hackman and family.
Dirk Nowitzki
Sure.
Covino
We're going to go over the best fictional coaches on the bonus pod later. But I want to go around the room and I want everyone to dig deep inside and be honest and admit one classic sports movie you've never seen because I'm man enough to admit it in this moment. I've never seen Hoosiers and people deem.
Dirk Nowitzki
That arguably the greatest sports movie of all time.
Covino
I've never seen Pre Miracle.
Dirk Nowitzki
A lot of people say Hoosiers.
Covino
And there's a part of me that's like, yeah, I don't know, maybe my dad. My family never watched it. 86. So I was a little boy, you know, I was in kindergarten in 86, so maybe he wasn't in my wheelhouse.
Dirk Nowitzki
I mean, that's not an excuse, though. Movies live on. You weren't even born when Rocky came out. You seen Rocky.
Covino
That is true. But is there a movie like Covino has never seen? The Mighty Ducks.
Dirk Nowitzki
Yeah, I'm not embarrassed by that, but it's true.
Covino
You should be a little embarrassed.
Dirk Nowitzki
Why, dude?
Covino
Arguably sports movie.
Dirk Nowitzki
Okay. Came out. You said the last one came out in 94.
Covino
The first one came out.
Dirk Nowitzki
Trying to get into college. 94. No kids in my life.
Covino
Gordon Bombay.
Dirk Nowitzki
Yeah.
Covino
1992. Mighty Ducks.
Dirk Nowitzki
Okay. Junior high. I'm all about playing junior high baseball, you know, trying to go out with my girlfriend, trying to squeeze a cheek here and there. You think I'm going to watch the Mighty Ducks in the theaters? Honestly, it was just. It's a timing thing, that's all.
Covino
Yeah, I find that.
Dirk Nowitzki
And my daughter showed zero interest in that movie as I became a dad. If I ever have a little son one day, maybe he wants to watch the Mighty Ducks. I'll check it out. But I wouldn't put that even in the same sentence as a Hoosiers. Hoosiers belongs in a movie with like, in a sentence with the Miracle.
Covino
I would argue. I would argue that Mighty Ducks is more popular than Hoosiers.
Dirk Nowitzki
Out of my face, dude. Out of here.
Covino
I would say many classic sports movie, you'll admit. Yeah, you just somehow just.
Dan Byer
Yeah, I wrote a couple down, actually.
Dirk Nowitzki
The old.
Dan Byer
The original and the newer one. The newer version of Bad News Bears. Never seen it. And I never seen Slap Shot with Paul Newman.
Covino
Oh, I never saw Sam. That's a. That's a good one. Because I think if you are in your 30s or so, slap Shot might be a little old. That might be, like, right on the threshold of math.
Dan Byer
Like, I've seen. I love movies from, like, the 70s. Wasn't slap shot like, what, late 70s, early 80s, something like that. So I go back and I watch movies. I just haven't seen it. And I love Paul Newman. And like, the Bad News Bears thing is, like, maybe you were a kid at the time when you saw the original or the new one with Billy Bob and Like, I just never got around to it.
Dirk Nowitzki
Most of us would have never saw Brian's Song if we didn't watch it in school. I've heard North Dallas 40. Some classics that you may have seen your dad watching growing up.
Covino
I've heard Colin Cowherd talk about how that's the most emotional movie that can make any man cry. And we watch it in like a film class in college. Same I watched. And I remember. I remember getting emotional as well.
Dirk Nowitzki
Watched it in school. But you know, a film from 72, I don't know if I would have watched it on my own. It didn't air on. On TV all that often. I don't remember that. But yeah, I did watch it. For me, it would be the Mighty Ducks. I guess, if it's as great as you say it is. I'm not saying it's not good. And I'm not saying that kiddie sports movies can't be good. I love the Sandlot. I know, Rich, you're a big angels in the outfield guy. It's a classic, but I never saw it.
Covino
Daniel, anything come to mind that you missed?
Dirk Nowitzki
I never saw Rocky.
Mark Seale
Well, yes, that's. That's exactly right because Sam can't just give one answer. He always has to give like seven. You know, before anybody else's. I was gonna say slap shot. Well, nobody else has chimed in yet, Sam.
Covino
That's the problem.
Dan Byer
Well, I mean, I don't take seven.
Mark Seale
Pieces of pizza from an eight slice pizza.
Dan Byer
There's a lot of sports movies out there.
Mark Seale
One slice. And if everybody goes around like he literally. I got two of these. Two. And then of course I didn't see Mighty Ducks.
Dan Byer
Dan, you haven't seen many sports movies.
Covino
So there are a lot.
Mark Seale
I know, but it's just the fact that you can't not help but name three movies.
Dirk Nowitzki
Yeah.
Covino
Thanks a lot, Sam.
Mark Seale
Replacements. Replacements with Keanu Reeves. Have not seen that.
Covino
And by the way, Gene Hackman in that movie.
Mark Seale
Oh, okay.
Dirk Nowitzki
Of course.
Rich
Man, this sounded like Rapoport versus Schultz.
Covino
I was gonna say you got. I feel some sexual attachment.
Mark Seale
I don't want any part of that beef.
Rich
Yeah, I wrote down one here and I know it has a cult following, but we weren't even in elementary school when it came out. I've never seen Caddyshack all the way through.
Dirk Nowitzki
Oh, wow. Really?
Rich
Seen parts, you know, when it's rerun on tv. But yeah, I've never sat down and watched it for a while.
Dirk Nowitzki
I thought of Caddyshack the other day when Dan Byer was talking about some of the things that we hated at first, but now we like. He said that he hated when people played their music on the golf course.
Rich
That's right.
Dirk Nowitzki
It was never a thing. And now he sort of likes it. It provides some sort of atmosphere. You're having a good time out there. Everyone has their own little personal speaker going on. Part of the joke was, Rodney Dangerfield was so disruptive that he had, like, a system in his golf bag. Yeah. And he's playing his music, and everyone's Ted Knight, and everybody hates him.
Mark Seale
Oh, so great. So ahead of his time.
Dirk Nowitzki
It was ahead of its time. But, like, the joke wouldn't even translate, maybe to some people. Like, he's playing music. So what?
Dan Byer
He had a beer tap on his golf bag, which was legendary.
Dirk Nowitzki
Seriously.
Mark Seale
Poor caddy. Oh, man.
Dirk Nowitzki
But Danny G. Wouldn't know because he's never seen it.
Covino
So you know what? As. As you know, you have little kids now where a lot of us are dads in the room. Do you go back to the well and Danny G. Your son, co is one. At any point, he could be like, bad news, Bear son, Major league sandlot, Field of dreams. Or is that generation just not going to care?
Dirk Nowitzki
No.
Rich
I think there's a handful of movies where we're like, got to share this. Like, my stepchildren, they had never seen Back to the Future. And so one night I'm like, get the popcorn. You're watching Back to the Future. And they loved it.
Dirk Nowitzki
What? Some people consider it the perfect movie.
Rich
Yeah.
Dirk Nowitzki
Unbelievable.
Covino
We always say sports movies aside, we say it's the trifecta. If you're a kid of the 80s, it's Goonies, back to the Future, and Karate Kid. Those are the three that it would be hard to not try to pass down to your children.
Dirk Nowitzki
You know what else gets left out of that conversation, though? E.T. i mean, that's legendary. It's just so sad and sentimental, I think. Like, you don't want to sit there and cry about an alien on a random Thursday. But in honor and in tribute, we will be talking about Gene Hackman and other fictional coaches from movies and TVs Tire World again on Over Promised. But I think we all got to check out Hoosiers if we haven't. And like you said, DB Replacements, because Hackman's also in that one. But if you want to confess, consider this.
Covino
These are your confessions.
Dirk Nowitzki
Yeah. Your confession.
Mark Seale
And on the heels of that, Sam put a tribute up to Gene Hackman. I don't know if it's still up put. Because I'm such a huge Hoosiers fan that we went to the movie sites five years ago, me and my wife in Indiana. I threw a video up on Twitter. There's Also one on TikTok that I put up a couple years ago of, like, what it was like. I would explain it to you, but you've never seen the movie. So. So, but. But yeah. For any Hoosiers fan that want to check it out, feel free.
Covino
Cavino, you talk about it often. We're in that downtime now where baseball hasn't started yet. NBA and NHL are getting close to the playoffs, NFL off season. Hey, maybe your job this week or next week is to say, let me pick a classic sports movie that I just missed along the way, download it.
Dirk Nowitzki
On your travels and watch it. You know what I did, Rich?
Covino
Dedicated. Dedicate two hours of your life to Hoosiers or Mighty Ducks or Slap Shot.
Rich
Or, you know, I like that. It's like some good homework.
Dirk Nowitzki
I will eventually watch the Mighty Ducks. I just haven't. It's not like I'm not or I'm against it. I just haven't. But you know what I had never seen up until, like, Super Bowl. I don't know. Wherever we were coming from in our travels recently, Rich, I was on a plane and I was like, I've seen parts of it. Obviously. I know the quotable parts and I've seen parts, but I'm not sure I saw the whole thing. I watched Remember the Titans on a Plane. I had never seen the whole thing, I don't think. Wow. Yeah.
Rich
Yeah.
Covino
You know, that's top three for me.
Dirk Nowitzki
Is it really the top three that's.
Rich
Up there so good?
Dirk Nowitzki
Well, I just watched the full thing in its entirety, like, within the past month. So it's never too late, is my point. So if you've never seen Hoosiers or any of these, you gotta watch them.
Covino
You know what I haven't seen, now that I think about it? The Rocky movies are, you know, such an important part of my life. The Rocky and Creed movies hit so home for me. Yeah. When people talk about De Niro, Raging Bull. Yeah.
Dirk Nowitzki
But those aren't sports movies. That's the love story.
Covino
You know that Rocky is a love story. But when people say, oh, yeah, De Niro, Raging Bull for years, I'm like.
Dirk Nowitzki
Yeah, yeah, you gotta watch that.
Covino
I've never seen Raging.
Dirk Nowitzki
Your own Pesci. It's great.
Rich
Rich, wasn't it you that told us the story of your wife? Watch The Rocky movies.
Covino
That's how I knew she was the one for you.
Rich
Yeah.
Covino
My wife had never seen the Rocky movies. And I'm gonna do the same to Dan Byer one day without the romance. My wife was visiting me in New York when we were just dating. I was like, babe, I gotta go to work all day. I'll be back. We'll go out for a nice dinner. She was like, I thought she was gonna kill time shopping around New York City doing her stuff. She had a Rocky marathon. And I was like, are you trying to impress me? Cause I'm pretty turned on right now, bro.
Dirk Nowitzki
If your wife could bond with you on Rocky, you'll Love Raging Bull 1980. De Niro at his best. SC Joe Pesci. Again, the story of Jake LaMotta. You got to check that out. I think you'd really like it. Again. But the reminder here in honor of Gene Hackman Hoosier's legendary movie is to think about those movies.
Covino
Do a little homework.
Dirk Nowitzki
And which one didn't you watch? Check it out. Because I think sports movies especially, they're usually timepieces right? About that specific time, that specific player. They never go out of style. They're always somewhat great. Most of them hold up.
Covino
No doubt. All right, well, that's Covino. I'm rich. We love you guys. Hanging with us. Fox Sports Radio. We got more. Next we're going to talk some NFL. We're going to talk old school. There's some stores that are closing shop, and one of them shocking to me. We'll get to that. Plus, Travis Kelsey in the news so much coming up right here on cnr.
Dirk Nowitzki
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Covino
How you can't go backwards once you get that. Like, stretchy pant material. Yeah, they got great pants with a little give you can wear on the golf course. You can wear it casually. You go on a date night, Travis Matthew brings it. They got that shoe that's in between the sneaker And Kevin got those, bro.
Dirk Nowitzki
They're nice.
Covino
Kelvin from the Odd Couple was rocking those the other day. The ultimate performance polo. If that's your look. They got those three quarter zips. Anything you could possibly want. And it's really quality stuff. And you look sharp, you look good, and your lady will like it too.
Dirk Nowitzki
I love the lightweight fabrics. And again, it's not just about golf stuff anymore, even though that's high quality and the best. And I love those hats that we got. Wear them on the golf course too. But it's about the everyday stuff, as you can see. Again, I'm wearing like a. It's not even a jacket. It's like an overshirt.
Rich
So they have a good sense of humor too. I'm wearing one of their hats today. It. Golf sucks.
Dirk Nowitzki
Oh, nice.
Rich
It's got a skeleton on the side with a golf club.
Dirk Nowitzki
I love it.
Covino
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Steph Curry
Make some noise for the greatest shooter of all time, Steph Curry. We went live from All Star Weekend for a new podcast called Go Greatest of their here. And we ranked our top five shooters from the 2000s.
Peja Stojaković
Peja 5 Dirk Ford.
Dirk Nowitzki
Peja is elite.
Covino
I'm mad him.
Dirk Nowitzki
I left him off my list, but I still like my list.
Steph Curry
You won't believe who Steph left off his list.
Peja Stojaković
That's so tough. That's why we to have these conversations. That's why we have to love it.
Steph Curry
Steph talked about what separates the truly elite NBA shooters.
Peja Stojaković
When you have a scouting report and you're on the list as not just a shooter, but we have specific rules for how we guard you. There's a fear factor that's associated with anytime you're wide open. Like, you might as well just count that and get on back on defense.
Steph Curry
Listen to Go G O T e Greatest of their era on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Dirk Nowitzki
Ah, remember the Titans. I remember. You know what the problem is though, Rich? A lot of times these movies mean so much to you as a kid. And Iowa Sam nailed it off the air. You know, when you watch him as an adult, you're much more critical and you're not in the 90s when that movie came out. So I'm like, eh, I liked it. I didn't love it, but I did like it. It's a sports movie. I never hate them. You know, it was good.
Covino
You know what this reminds me of? And by the way, if you want to chime in, we were talking about some of those classic sports movies you may have missed along the way. Gene hackman, dead at 95. And I admitted I've never seen Hoosiers, but I'm not the only one.
Dirk Nowitzki
I'm surprised by that.
Covino
You've never seen Caddyshack and Mighty Duck. Shot Mighty Duck until recently.
Dirk Nowitzki
Remember the Titans.
Rich
I feel like Hoosiers. You need to immediately go watch that, Rich.
Covino
I'm not against it, dude. I will. If not, if I don't watch it tonight or tomorrow, it's on my next free night.
Dan Byer
It's assignment viewing.
Dirk Nowitzki
By the way, is it a good thing or is it tacky and cheap when you notice somebody dies or someone's in the news and all of a sudden, like, you see the little thumbnail for their movie on every streaming service you have? It's convenient. But is it also like they're capitalizing off the death or controversy of that.
Covino
Person combined with paying tribute to them? I'm 50. 50 on it.
Dirk Nowitzki
Yeah. No, exactly. But you notice it, right?
Covino
No doubt.
Dirk Nowitzki
So I'm sure you're gonna see a Hoosiers thumbnail or at Royal Tannins Bomb. Thun thumbnail somewhere in your streaming services.
Covino
I have a dumb thought that has to do with what you just said about 90s movies.
Dirk Nowitzki
Yeah, well, let me. Let me again preface, though. I had seen parts of Remember the Titans. I was on a plane. It was there.
Rich
I think that was from the year 2000.
Dirk Nowitzki
Was it 2000? And again, like, I liked it, Rich. I'm sure I'd have liked it a lot more when I. When it first came out. You know, you have to put yourself in that mindset.
Covino
We had a theory the other day that it's so dumb, why not bring it to Fox Sports Radio? I can't be the only one, because Covino felt the same way. And I'm really curious what everyone else feels. When you were a kid and your grandparents showed you photos and Relics from the 20s and 30s and 40s. Yeah, this is me in World War II. Or.
Dirk Nowitzki
Well, they would bust out their perforated photos, you know, with little triangular perforations on them. And they're always black and white, obviously. And I knew that I lived in a time of color photos, so I always associated their past in black and white. Old movies, black and white.
Covino
So when my grandparents would tell me a story, I pictured it in black and white. And in my Mind, I thought they lived in black and white.
Dirk Nowitzki
Yeah. When I would imagine their stories, I would imagine them, like, in a Humphrey Bogart sort of era and sort of camera view.
Covino
So when did life become colorful, Grandpa? Oh, it always has been Grandpa.
Dirk Nowitzki
When did Technicolor, like, kick into actual life?
Covino
I'm not even BSing you. I thought my grandparents lived in black and white.
Mark Seale
And I totally get it, because now when we. But it's not. You're not that far off. Because now when we see old clips colorized, it's not like anybody's wearing neon green, you know, like, it's all just a subdued navy black or brown or gray. So it's not. It's not that shocking.
Dan Byer
It is amazing to see those colorized, like, anywhere. Like, World War I footage I saw that was, like, of the British soldiers colorized. It was unreal. Like, it just brought a whole new life to it.
Covino
It feels like it can't be real.
Dan Byer
Because World War II footage colorized. It is crazy.
Dirk Nowitzki
Like, in my mind, I saw footage of Babe Ruth colorized recently. It's like, man, that's weird.
Covino
Like, Abe Lincoln, anything like that.
Mark Seale
Where the Yankees were in their city. Connect.
Covino
So I look at it and I say, you know, I thought our grandparents lived in the black and white.
Dirk Nowitzki
And I found out that Babe Ruth actually used mustard on his hot dogs, not ketchup. I always wondered.
Mark Seale
Sure.
Dirk Nowitzki
Yeah. Because it was yellow.
Mark Seale
Solved the mystery.
Covino
So here's our dumb. Covino and Rich thought if we as little kids. I'm not saying I think that now, but as a little kid, I think I thought my grandparents lived in black and white.
Dirk Nowitzki
Yeah. I thought in old timey times, they lived in black and white again. When I was a really little kid, Pleasantville style. Based on that theory. Based on that theory, the other night.
Covino
I'm on YouTube because my kids just watch all junk on YouTube. But I was signed in under my name, and the last thing I had watched was highlights of the 2024 Mets. Like, all the Lindor and Alonzo home runs. And my kids who are getting ready for T ball and softball, they're like, dad, what's that? I go, you want to see a couple home runs from the Mets last year? And then it gets into the Show Us.
Dirk Nowitzki
That Show Us. Show Us.
Covino
And I'm like, hey, buddy, can you name three Mets? And I'm so proud of my son's, like, Thodol Lindor and Polar Bear Pete. I'm watching them watch highlights, and then my daughter does the whole. You think The Mets will ever win the championship, as she calls it, because, dad, didn't they win when you were my age? And that was the last time I go, yeah, buddy. It was. She goes, is that on TV? I showed them a two minute clip of, you know, gets by Buckner, Mookie Wilson, 86. All my kids kept saying was, were things blurry when you were a kid? So do our kids.
Dirk Nowitzki
And the camera was shaking the same.
Covino
Way we thought our grandparents lived in the black and white. Do our kids think we lived in the blurry?
Dirk Nowitzki
They do, they do. And there's so many reasons that even clips from the 90s, mostly the 90s, there's reasons that they're extra blurry when you see them now because they weren't formatted for today's type of monitor and screen.
Covino
There was sd.
Dirk Nowitzki
Yeah, right.
Covino
And they were.
Dirk Nowitzki
So you'll see a clip. You know damn well it wasn't that blurry. But it was on video. Right. And now it's digital. When it transferred, it just looks like crap. So if a kid is looking at a highlight from the 96 World Series, gotta brag about my Yankees here. It looks like something from the 1960s. It looks pathetic. It looks pathetically blurry. So based on our theory of we imagine our grandpappy living in the black and white, our kids think we lived in the blurry. And they're not necessarily wrong because if you watch some of those videos, they're all blurry.
Covino
Dude, honestly, like any, any highlight you will watch or pull up on YouTube from the 80s, the way it's formatted, the way it's, you know, captured George Brett getting mad about the corked bat. That looks like I can understand where your 5 year old or 6 year old kid would be like, dad, were things blurry when you were a kid?
Mark Seale
2002, NFL Action 2001, you'd be amazed at how bad it looks. And it feels like it was just the graphics packages.
Dirk Nowitzki
Everything about it looks like, man, how old is this video? It's not that old. 20 years old.
Covino
Dan Byer and I take a lot of pride in being nerdy about is the lower thirds and the graphics packages. When you were a kid, you didn't realize that was never up during the game. If you watch an old NFL films from the 80s or 90s, they only showed the score and the quarter and how much time and third down, second down, going in and out of commercials. I guess they thought it was not a good idea to show it. Like if you watch an old Monday Night Football game when it was Al and Dan and Frank, there was. There was no permanent lower third.
Mark Seale
You know, I'm sure there's some guy tunes in in the second or third quarter and watches 15 minutes of the game so he can get the rating not to realize he's watching a 40, a nine game. Maybe like that's the reason why where all of a sudden now if you turn it on, you're like, oh, that game's a blowout. I'm just going to turn it away.
Covino
That the theory might have been, if you see the score, you're not going to stick around.
Mark Seale
Sure. Yeah. Who knows?
Dirk Nowitzki
There's also a difference in the quality of NFL films because it could be a game from, you know, the 2000s and it looks like something from the 60s because it's on film. That's always misleading.
Rich
Yeah, it just looks flat.
Dirk Nowitzki
It looks flat because it's not an actual film. But when you see that old video of old baseball games, again, it wasn't that long ago and it looks so old. Hence, kids think we lived in the blurry era of life. Yeah.
Covino
Good luck.
Dirk Nowitzki
True. Especially with their HDIs.
Covino
Good luck getting another show on this network or any network to have the revelation. If we lived in the blurry, you.
Dan Byer
Really have to go to that footage. If you want to do like a documentary on it, you have to clean it up. It takes a lot of post production editing or not editing, but like you have to like sharpen, sharpening things up. You have to really do a lot of work on it. It's like almost like restoring an old car.
Covino
Yeah. Does it creep you out, guys, when.
Dirk Nowitzki
You think though, with a which with AI they could probably do it easily.
Covino
Does it creep out when you see how now they could bring old photos to life? Is that weird to you? Like they'll take like an old timey times photo and they could sort of.
Dan Byer
Animate it, make it like a gif almost.
Rich
I just don't like the way the eyes look.
Dirk Nowitzki
It's so weird. Did you see that video? I know it's stupid, but did you see the video of Donald Trump sucking Elon Musk's toes?
Dan Byer
I did see that.
Dirk Nowitzki
It's so disturbing because it looks so real.
Mark Seale
That was A.I.
Dirk Nowitzki
Exactly. Yeah. You know, I'm sure there's old people that believed it.
Covino
My mom probably thinks it's real. Richie. I saw it on Facebook book. All right, let's go to Dan Byer for an update. What's going on?
Mark Seale
Quickly, guys. Have you guys seen any of the old clips when they changed from black and white to color tv, where stations actually did it, where they're like, we are not going to transition into a color mode.
Dirk Nowitzki
How about when Dorothy goes from Kansas to Munchkin Land? That was fun.
Covino
I watched the wizard of Oz recently with my kids and they were so bored in the beginning and I had to be like, kids, I promise you it's going to get better.
Mark Seale
Yeah, and you're going to hate what you're about to see, chief said. And Travis Kelsey confirmed you'll play in 2025. Doing and text messages to Pat McAfee of the Pat McAfee Show Chiefs, by the way, place the franchise tag on guard Trey Smith. Former Buccaneers head coach John Gruden will be reinstated into the team's Ring of Honor. He was removed in 2021 but will be back up in 2025. Heisman Trophy winner Travis Hunter not working out in Indianapolis now. If you remember, he was designated as a defensive back at the combine. He interviewed today with reporters and when asked about what teams he spoke with, Hunter just said next question would not reveal who he had spoken to. Jake Knapp shot 59 on the PGA Tour in the first round on the Cognizant Classic. Twelve birdies, no bogeys for the 15th sub 60 round in PGA Tour history. Jordan Smith is six back at six under. Orioles shortstop Gunner Henderson left today's Grapefruit League game against the Blue Jays with discomfort on his lower right side left after just one inning. Finally, spurs head coach Greg Popovich says he will not return to coaching this season following his mild stroke. He's focusing on his health and hopes to coach again in the future. Guys, back to you.
Dirk Nowitzki
Thank you, D.B. now again to wrap up our random thought. If we thought our grandpappy grew up in the black and white because all the old stuff lived in black and white. Do our kids think we lived in the blurry because all of our pictures and all of our footage is blurry.
Covino
If I told you picture Abe Lincoln doing a speech, honestly, are you picturing it in like a black and white vibe?
Dirk Nowitzki
Absolutely. I'm not picturing him in color. I have no idea. So anyway, we talk Travis Kelsey and we do some old school in 50 hits. We have lots to get to on the Covino and Rich Show.
Steph Curry
Make some noise for the greatest shooter of all time, Steph Curry. We went live from All Star Weekend to our new podcast called Goat Greatest of Their Era and we ranked our top five shooters from the 2000s.
Peja Stojaković
Peja 5 Dirk Ford Peja is a.
Covino
Loan okay, I'm at him.
Dirk Nowitzki
I left him off my list, but I still like my list.
Steph Curry
You won't believe who Steph left off his list.
Peja Stojaković
That's so tough. That's why we have these conversations. That's why we have Love it.
Steph Curry
Steph talked about what separates the truly elite NBA shooters.
Peja Stojaković
When you have a scouting report and you're on the list as not just a shooter, but we have specific rules for how we guard you, there's a fear factor that's associated with it. Anytime you're wide open, like, you might as well just count that and get on back on defense.
Steph Curry
Listen to Goat G O T E greatest of their era on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Dirk Nowitzki
Rest in peace. Gene Hackman 95 now they're saying suspicious. And the details that are coming out are suspicious. And of course, rest in peace, his wife and his dog. We're gonna pay tribute on over. Promised our bonus show, so tune into that. Plus, we're going to talk nasty. Nester getting a lot of criticism for saying that he thinks the Yankees. And he speaks on behalf of all the Yankees from last year. He thinks the Yankees were the better team even though they lost to the Dodgers.
Covino
That's so silly.
Dirk Nowitzki
I'm going to try to make. I'll do my best to make sense of what I think he was getting at on over. Promise.
Covino
You could say that about any competition in the world. It doesn't even need to be the World Series. Yeah, I think we're the better team. But if you didn't win, were you really the better team?
Dirk Nowitzki
No, but I understand what he means. I'll explain again. Fox Sports Radio's YouTube page. We go live at 4pm out here on the west, 7pm on the east. Over. Promised our bonus pod. You could listen, but check it out. Watch it on YouTube.
Covino
Dan Beyer, thank you for texting me this clip. We got to post this at Coveenonrich. The exact moment when news stations switched from black and white to color TV. April 14, 1967. Did you see this ever?
Dirk Nowitzki
There was like a moment.
Covino
Moment.
Dirk Nowitzki
Like there's a moment.
Covino
We're gonna flip the switch.
Dan Byer
It was a live moment.
Dirk Nowitzki
Yeah.
Covino
They're like. It's black and white. Look, see right here. And then all of a sudden, the guy sits down at the desk and all of a sudden like. And flip the switch. It's a little staticky for a second, and boom.
Dirk Nowitzki
What? I don't think I've ever seen that.
Covino
I've Never seen this either at I.
Dirk Nowitzki
Thought it happened when Dorothy opened the door.
Covino
I that's what I thought too.
Dirk Nowitzki
Wow. That's amazing.
Covino
All right, well, look at the time. 50 after when old school hits.
Dirk Nowitzki
There's a sur.
Covino
Yay.
Dirk Nowitzki
What we gonna do right here is.
Covino
Go back.
Dirk Nowitzki
Back into time.
Covino
Throwing it back for a Thursday old school when 50 hits at 50 after. CNR give you the time capsule topic and we reminisce together.
Dirk Nowitzki
Now next hour, we will talk some NFL and track Travis Kelsey. He's made an announcement. We'll get to that. But every Thursday, we throw it back and we reminisce Nostalgia, a big part of our lives. We get you involved at 87799 on Fox. Everything at Covinoenrich at FoxSports Radio. Now, if you're on social media like most of us are or you just see the news from time to time, you may have seen that Hooters filed for bankruptcy.
Covino
What?
Dirk Nowitzki
Hooters? What? To me, if you would have said what business plan might never fail, I would have to say, I don't know, hot women in wings. Yeah, that'd probably be around forever if that could fail. How does that go out of style? Which shows you America's changing. And man, wow, that's a surprise. Are we too good for delightfully tacky now?
Covino
What's wrong with us? And then for the crafty folks out.
Dirk Nowitzki
There, Al Bundy's disappointed.
Covino
Or for the women, women that love to, you know, do their little crafty stuff at home. Joann's. How many times have you stopped at Joann's with your mom or your girlfriend or your wife?
Dirk Nowitzki
I feel bad about this, but at least I'll stop getting their junk mail every other day. It's like, geez, I bought some yarn there five years ago and I still get emails from them.
Covino
Yeah, Joanne's texting me every day, 20% off.
Dirk Nowitzki
I'm sad anytime I hear this stuff. And if you have kids in school especially, they're always asking you to take them to Joann's or Michael's because they need things for crafts at school and projects and things like.
Covino
That was the last time you made a diorama?
Dirk Nowitzki
Yeah, dude, I'm at Joann's actually a lot because my daughter's always doing stuff for her projects.
Dan Byer
Start with a shoebox.
Dirk Nowitzki
But again, Hooters. Joann's just recently. I'm from New Jersey. My family was all upset because they're closing down one of the last locations of Rainforest Cafe in Jersey. Their famous menlo park location. Now there's only one location. Remember, they always had, like, Atlantic City.
Covino
You walk to the. I guess you would say the. The lobby area, and it'd be like the. The jungle smoke.
Dirk Nowitzki
Yeah. But they're holding on by string.
Rich
Used to go to the one in Vegas.
Dirk Nowitzki
Yeah. There's like one or two here and there. But based on these thoughts and all these news alerts, what are some places that don't exist anymore that we just miss? We really miss and wish we could bring them back. Wish we could share those moments with our kids.
Covino
The Hooters one hits home. Hits home for me because my wife, when she was in college, worked at Hooters. In fact, sort of how I met my wife, because she ended up she was Ms. Hooters in, like, 08. And we met her through the radio show.
Dirk Nowitzki
That's right. Rich's wife was Ms. Hooters International. My girlfriend is the stock photo that they're. She also worked at Hooters. My girlfriend, believe it or not. And they're using her photo as the, like, hey, we're filing for bankruptcy. Hooters. And, like, she's the one that's always over the news alert.
Covino
So, I mean, think about it. How many times were you watching a game, having some wings? Hooters is America. This is shocking to me. I know Joanne's every school project for your kids. Shocking. What are the ones that sort of bummed you out when they closed down? It could be electronic stores. It could be record stores. It could be anything. There's. There's old school regional shops.
Rich
That toy stores are a big one.
Covino
Toy stores. So we'll get to all of it next. Throwing it back on a Thursday. Those stores you miss from back in the day, we'll do it next. Kavino and Rich, this is Nikki Glazer from the Nikki Glazer podcast. On a more serious note, I'm still thinking about that commercial with Tom Brady and Snoop Dogg hating on each other, because when you listen to the reasons for hating someone or something, you realize just how stupid they really are. There is too much hate in this.
Mark Seale
Country, and it's gotta stop.
Covino
So join us at iheart and standing up to it. If you see hate, speak up, call.
Mark Seale
It out, and you can learn more.
Covino
By following at what's upwithhate.
Steph Curry
Make some noise for the greatest shooter of all time, Steph Curry. We went live from all Star weekend for a new podcast called Goat greatest of their egg era. And we ranked our top five shooters from the 2000s.
Peja Stojaković
PAJA 5 Dirk Ford PAJA is a link.
Steph Curry
You won't believe who Steph left off his list.
Peja Stojaković
That's so tough. That's why we have these conversations. That's why we love it.
Steph Curry
Listen to Go G O T e Greatest of Their era on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
Questlove
Hey everybody, what's up? This is Questlove, and every year we do special programming in February for Black History History Month. Now especially important this year as we gear up for some new conversations. So the team and I compiled some clips from the show that are worth revisiting in Part one of the celebration of Black History Month, we're listening back to Moments With Chris Rock, Solange Prodigy, Ben Vereen, Jennifer Lewis, Angela Rye and Gina Yashore. Listen to Questlove supreme on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.
Colleen Witt
Are you hungry? Colleen Witt here. And Eating While Broke is back for Season four every Thursday on the Black Effect Podcast Network. This season we've got a legendary lineup serving up broke dishes and even better stories. On the menu. We have Tony Baker, Nick Cannon, Melissa Ford, October London and Carrie Harper Howey turning Big Macs into big moves. Catch Eating While Broke every Thursday on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast Wherever you get your favorite shows. Come hungry for season four.
Mary Kay McBrayer
I'm Mary Kay McBrayer, host of the podcast the Greatest True Crime Stories Ever Told. This season explores women from the 19th century to now, women who were murderers and scammers, but also women who were photojournalists, lawyers, writers and more. This podcast tells more than just the brutal, gory details of horrific acts. I delve into the good, the bad, the difficult, and all the nuance I can find because these are the stories that we need to know to understand the intersection of society, justice, and the fascinating workings of the human psyche. Join me every week as I tell some of the most enthralling true crime stories about women who are not just victims, but heroes or villains or often and somewhere in between. Listen to the greatest true crime stories ever told on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Podcast Information:
Timestamp: [02:36] – [07:02]
The episode opens with hosts Mark Seale and Dirk Nowitzki reflecting on the sudden passing of the legendary actor Gene Hackman at the age of 95. They discuss the initial reports of carbon monoxide poisoning and the subsequent emergence of suspicious details surrounding his and his wife's death.
The hosts ponder the appropriate way to honor Hackman's legacy, especially concerning his iconic roles in films like "Hoosiers." They debate the best imagery to represent a deceased public figure—whether to use photos from their prime or their final years.
Timestamp: [07:02] – [24:19]
The conversation shifts to classic sports movies, with hosts admitting their lack of exposure to some beloved titles. They discuss the cultural impact of films like "Hoosiers," "The Mighty Ducks," "Slap Shot," and "Caddyshack," highlighting generational differences in movie-watching habits.
They explore why certain sports movies remain timeless while others fade into obscurity, considering factors like nostalgia and personal connections formed during childhood.
Timestamp: [25:30] – [37:08]
The hosts delve into a humorous yet insightful discussion about how different generations perceive media quality. They share a theory that while grandchildren might imagine their grandparents' lives in black and white, contemporary kids perceive the past as "blurry" due to the lower resolution of older footage.
They touch upon the advancements in technology, such as AI-driven colorization and restoration of old footage, and its uncanny effect on viewers.
Timestamp: [37:08] – [45:58]
Transitioning from media, the hosts express sadness over the closure of iconic American establishments like Hooters, Joann Fabrics, and the Rainforest Cafe. They reminisce about the cultural significance and personal memories tied to these venues.
The discussion highlights how these businesses were not just commercial entities but played roles in social interactions, family outings, and personal milestones.
Timestamp: [46:33] – [48:20]
In the concluding part of the episode, the hosts briefly mention upcoming segments, including updates on NFL news, Travis Kelsey's recent announcements, and plans to discuss favorite fictional coaches in a bonus podcast.
They also touch on societal issues, such as combating hate in media, reinforcing the podcast’s commitment to addressing both sports and broader cultural topics.
In "Hour 1 - Headshots & Hooters," The Herd with Colin Cowherd delves deep into the complexities of legacy, nostalgia, and cultural shifts. From honoring the memory of Gene Hackman to debating the relevance of classic sports movies, the episode offers a blend of heartfelt tributes and lighthearted banter. The hosts invite listeners to reflect on how they choose to remember influential figures and cherished aspects of American culture, all while setting the stage for future engaging discussions.
Listeners are encouraged to tune into the bonus podcast "Over Promised" for extended conversations and to revisit classic sports movies to fully appreciate their lasting impact.
Listen to "Hour 1 - Headshots & Hooters" on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.